Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

As schools look ahead to serving not just student needs, but the greater needs of their community and world, service learning becomes an increasingly important part of high school education. The positive relationship between personal success and giving has been proven over and over, but it is not intuitive. When students become involved in ventures that give of their time and knowledge, they understand how important helping others is, not in an academic way but in a hands-on practical sense.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I had the opportunity to visit Facebook to learn how other school districts and businesses were using Workplace : Facebook's answer to connecting whole organizations with familiar tools like chat, Facebook Live, and groups, so they can turn ideas into action. While it comes with a price tag for businesses, it happens to be free for education institutions.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

P rior to Aileen Parsons becoming director of human resources for Pleasanton USD in northern California, she was a school principal in the district. The memory of hiring paperwork was fresh in Parsons’ mind when she switched jobs in November 2015.

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STEMx

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Many states and local districts honor outstanding schools and teachers. But those that win The Succeeds Prize will really hit the jackpot. The Succeeds Prize, which celebrates outstanding schools and innovative teaching in Colorado, is sponsored by Colorado Succeeds, a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of business leaders focused on improving the state’s education system.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

T he unauthorized use of another’s creative content has always been a problem but with the growth of the Internet, it’s become epidemic. The prevailing wisdom seems to be: cc. If it’s online it’s free. This, of course, isn’t true but the rules and laws surrounding plagiarism and copyrights aren’t nearly as well-known as those that deal with, say, driving a car or crossing a street.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Quizster is a innovative site/app that I just found out about for assessing and grading students work. All a student has to do is snap a photo of their work and send it via the free mobile (iOS/Android) to their teacher. The teacher can then annotate, comment, and grade using Quizster and respond instantly to the student. All information then gets backed up to the cloud and helps decrease the frequency of lost homework.

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STEMx

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

October 11, 2017: 4-5 p.m. (EST) . Register. For many students, the jump from high school to college is a leap. In this webinar, we’ll take you inside the new ways some schools are helping students prepare for the challenges of college that content knowledge doesn’t cover. Liz Mechling/Tim Latta will detail the class every student at Metro Early College High School takes to prepare them for everything from college applications to financial aid.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Everywhere outside of the education industry (which seems to focus on Google Forms), JotForm is the gold standard for creation of forms whether on PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. It can be used to sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll people into classes, ask for donations, or collect payments. A JotForm can even show different questions based on what a user answered in prior questions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #69–Instead of Emailing, Share.

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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Baamboozle is a super fun site for creating games that I just found out about from Ozge Karaoglu's amazing blog. All a teacher has to do is login and then start adding their questions to create a game. They can even add their own image and then put students into teams to start playing the game. The game can also be played as a quiz. I highly recommend checking out Baamboozle by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

NameCoach is a wonderful web service that educators are using to learn student's names and pronounce them correctly. This is especially useful w/ commencement/graduation ceremonies on the horizon. The way this works is simple as a teacher creates a name/web page and then has the student's speak their names. The audio gets embedded into a page and a user can access them all on one page at anytime.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

ClassClimate is a fun little site that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This site allows students to login and rate how they are feeling by clicking on a word. It kind of reminds me of ClassDojo w/ less features. A teacher then gets the results in real-time and view the word/emoji to see how their students are feeling. Best of all are the detailed reports/graphs to help teachers assess behavior.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Help Teaching is an excellent site for educators, parents, and others looking for educational resources such as quiz/test creators, online assessments, or worksheets/printables. These printables are for K-12 and cover a wide range of subjects. Also, there is a test/virtual room where students can take online assessment and get results in real time. I highly recommend checking out Help Teaching by clicking here !!!

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These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Otus, the wonderful mobile learning solution and teaching and learning platform was hard at work this summer w/ over 50 updates. Best of all, all of this happens in one safe controlled environment. These updates exist in one single platform. Here is a brief look at some of the new features: enhanced Google Integration embed third party content (i.e.

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