Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 5, 2022
Since we at Ask a Tech Teacher started this blog thirteen years ago, we’ve had almost 5.6 million views from visitors, about 10,000 followers who have read some or all of our 2,731 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ).
ED Surge
JANUARY 4, 2022
Throughout my 20 years in the field of early childhood development, in the classroom and as a kids’ show host, I have observed that a young child in focused, self-guided, open-ended play is like a lucid dreamer. Consider how our subconscious processes the experiences of our daily lives during our dream cycles. When adults pay attention to children’s verbal and non-verbal play, we are, in a way, able to look into their subconscious, and with some careful observation and analysis, gain a pretty go
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Educators Technology
JANUARY 6, 2022
What is Keybr?Keybr is a web tool that helps you learn touch typing using typing exercises that tailored specifically to your skill level. As you improve your typing practice and enhance your.read more.
Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 4, 2022
There’s a scene in the award-winning film A Beautiful Mind where the real-life math genius John Nash (played masterfully by Russell Crowe) stands before two massive screens full of cryptic numbers formulated by an enemy government and computes in his mind for hours until he demystifies the code. Numbers are illuminated on the screens, indicating the highly complex mental math he’s performing.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 1, 2022
Every year, January 1st, is P ublic Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use. According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2022: Click image for interactive content on PublicDomanReview.org. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link].
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Educators Technology
JANUARY 1, 2022
WordReference is a free bilingual online dictionary and translation platform. It offers dictionary services in several languages including French, English, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and many.read more.
Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 4, 2022
Imagine an alien planet where the inhabitants are born with the multiplication table imprinted on their DNA. Let’s call this galactic species Multiplydons. The Multiplydons enter their distant world reciting multiplication facts the way human babies babble and coo for their parents. Like humans, Multiplydons attend school and study math, but their curriculum naturally omits memorization of the multiplication tables and skips ahead to their application.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 2, 2022
Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January. This month: If you donate to my blog drive, I’ll send you FREE: . The 18-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) in preparation for MLK Day January 17, 2022. Lesson plans include: an Event Chain of Dr.
ED Surge
JANUARY 3, 2022
After a year and a half of living and working in a pandemic, the one thing that I have totally abandoned is the belief that institutions of higher learning are places where learning at a higher level universally occurs. This pandemic has taught me that we must fight to uphold the integrity of the academy and be prepared to demonstrate the value we provide to societies.
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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.
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 4, 2022
Seems like a lot of people are playing Wordle on social media these days. Have you tried it? It’s a word/letter version of old Mastermind game The idea is that you enter a five letter word and the game tells you if you have a letter from the word in the correct place (green highlight), a letter from the word in the wrong place (gold highlight), or a letter that isn’t in the word (grey highlight).
Robot Lab
JANUARY 5, 2022
By Pearl Holland. By Unsplash. Education is heavily reliant on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Schools have been forced to adapt or face the consequences.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 6, 2022
Because Ask a Tech Teacher is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2021: Top 10 Tech Tips. Tech Tip #34: My Program Froze. 12 Tips for Teaching Middle School Tech. Remote Learning: Tips for Thriving in This Ecosystem.
ED Surge
JANUARY 5, 2022
Last semester has been described as a kind of limbo—with fewer COVID health restrictions and more in-person classes and activities, but under the cloud of a stubborn pandemic. What was it like to be on a college campus as the Delta variant surged? To find out, we connected with students on five campuses around the country, asking them to share moments from the fall that epitomized this unusual time, nearly two years into the global pandemic.
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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!
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 7, 2022
After my post the other day ( Is Wordle A Project To Assign Students to Program?) I got thinking about solver help for Wordle. I happen to have a huge word list I got some somewhere some time ago. For various reasons I had written a program to make sub list files of words of a specific length. So of course I have a list of 5 letter words – something over 8,000 of them.
The STEM Laboratory
JANUARY 3, 2022
There’s nothing quite as sweet as pulling out a math center that’s easy to differentiate, fun to play AND requires zero prep. That’s why I know you’re going to be smitten with these 3 no prep dice games! Snag your set below and then hop over to join The Plato Pack so you can get your hands on THOUSANDS of other time saving centers and teaching tools you’re going to love.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 7, 2022
Here are the most-read posts for the month of December. Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate. Coding Websites/Webtools by Grade. 15 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code. The Easiest No-coding Way to Build an Education App. What is ‘Technical Math’? 11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence. Have Santa Call Your Kids! 14 Holiday Websites and 9+ Projects.
ED Surge
JANUARY 4, 2022
In stressful moments, it always helps to have someone by your side. When it comes to providing mental health services, school districts could use some extra support, too. In California, experts agree the pandemic has exacerbated already deep-rooted mental health challenges for students. An August report from the Little Hoover Commission, a state independent oversight agency, called the pandemic a “perfect storm of stress, anxiety and trauma,” and a survey conducted by United Way of Greater Los A
Robot Lab
JANUARY 4, 2022
By Josiah Torvik. Top 10 of 2021: The pandemic threw the educational environment into chaos, but 15 months into it, it’s becoming clear that some of the pivots are here to stay.
EiE Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Happy 2022, EiE friends and family! As we gear up for another exciting year, we'd love to know what topics, activities and lessons you think will be most helpful for your classrooms, learners and other educators this year.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 3, 2022
As teachers move from a “teacher-lecturer” model of education to a “teacher-guide”, peer-to-peer learning–acquiring knowledge from a select peer group–has become a popular education strategy. Often, it is a less stressful way to support the long-held goal of developing lifelong learners. As a pedagogical strategy, it can be more effective in reinforcing critical thinking, cooperation, creativity, and problem solving–traits that are difficult to teach but essential for students
ED Surge
JANUARY 6, 2022
As another pandemic year draws to a close, a few key themes have risen to the top in education. First among them is how difficult the job has become. Stories about burnout, toxic positivity and putting respect back in the teaching profession were all exceedingly popular. Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education.
Love Learning STEM
JANUARY 6, 2022
I love to teach the Energy Unit in 4th grade, and although it is a hard concept to teach, these are the perfect picture books to use in your class! Each of the books serves a different purpose and can be used in different lessons of the unit. You can also use these picture books in addition to the Love Learning Stem Energy Unit or use it in supplement to your school’s assigned science curriculum.
Middle Web
JANUARY 7, 2022
African Americans faced severe repression when Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926. In this updated MiddleWeb resource, we share links that trace the impact of African Americans in politics, arts and sciences, and take a look at the potential expansion of Black history throughout the school year. The post Black History Month All Year Long first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Teachers are Terrific
JANUARY 7, 2022
Pipe cleaner projects? Really? Yes, really! I have written about straws and craft sticks, using string, and so many more materials. But never have I focused on pipe cleaner projects! So, let’s take a look at ten projects that include using these versatile fuzzy sticks. In this post, for your convenience, you may find Amazon Affiliate links to resources.
ED Surge
JANUARY 5, 2022
The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Unsurprisingly, the pandemic featured prominently in the higher education stories most popular with EdSurge readers last year. But rather than play-by-play news, readers sought analysis and commentary about how the crisis continues to change culture and conditions at colleges a
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 3, 2022
In my last post, I shared healthy foods to eat and ones to avoid , but readers asked for more specifics like where to shop and what to make for various meals. To follow are some of my favorite things to eat based on what I've learned from reading many books, articles, and listening to podcasts. By following what I've learned I've lost more than 25 pounds and gained muscle.
Defined Learning
JANUARY 1, 2022
January 29th is National Puzzle Day. Solving puzzles helps you develop your problem-solving skills because puzzles use both the left and right sides of your brain. Besides improving problem-solving and critical thinking skills, solving puzzles with others is a great way to develop your communication and collaboration skills.
Online Math for All
JANUARY 1, 2022
Transformations of Functions - Concept - Examples with step by step explanation
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