Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2020

Problems include administering and grading assessments, taking attendance, finding backchannel tools that enable them to stay in touch with students, and keeping viewers engaged during video presentations. Teachers see where they must circle back with help, broaden a topic, or move forward faster. More About JotForm.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit). Formative assessment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There is an increased movement towards personalizing the educational experience, practiced with student agency and choice on assessments. Each week as increasingly more stories enter the news cycle; it is clear that both new and veteran teachers need guidance in technology integration. Fougler, and Kevin J. Graziano. .

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2022

And the good news is that the acceleration research is robust. Take a look at what your third grade unit of instruction is that's coming up and identify what are those skills and concepts that students are going to need right now in order to access that and assess based on that. So that's that we know that there's unrealized potential.

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Research Research Schooling Accessibility 243

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2018

I’ve worked with Study.com in the past and come to realize the high value they place on differentiating instruction and meeting students where they are ready to learn, so when they wanted to share the news of their online class teaching the basics of differentiating in the classroom, they knew I would want to help. Assessments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It also includes worksheets and quizzes to assess learning. Stephen writes clearly, cohesively, and spotlights the important events in each topic. Second: Use this as an example of how students can turn a love of technology and programming into a summative assessment of their learning. – See more at: [link]. Conclusion.

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Curriculum Research Research Computer 152

User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. For language learning: ChatGPT or similar models could be used to provide conversation practice and feedback to students learning a new language. Let’s [teachers] help them with this” ( [link] via @jmattmiller).

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Artificial Intelligence Technology Argumentation Education 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With this relatively inexpensive kit, a wide age range of students learn about seemingly complicated topics such as insulators, conductors, resistance, and parallel and series circuits. These cover coding topics such as: abstraction. The good news: Once students try any of these ten, they’ll want more coding. algorithms.

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Robotics Computer Science Computer Critical Thinking 328

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APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. The pre-online versions weren’t dynamic or flexible, couldn’t be re-used, and few teachers had the time or energy to build these summative, purpose-built assessments. That changed with online rubrics.

Energy 155

Energy Curriculum Flexibility Computer 155

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JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. That changed markedly when I stumbled on a news story about annual virtual math competitions sponsored by Dimension U in conjunction with partners like the Department of Defense. Most of the links were a couple of years old.

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Math Gamification Algebra Computer 285

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JANUARY 20, 2017

A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like. They are funny, entertaining, educational, often short, and rarely boring.

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Curriculum Publication Communications Schooling 170

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Teaching Finance Economics Curriculum 282

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APRIL 5, 2018

Most new jobholders never had to think about costs vs. revenue, instead relied on parents to keep a roof over their head, heat and AC turned on, and gas in the car (and a car in the driveway). The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad news is it’s not mandatory.

Economics 152

Economics Math Curriculum Elementary 152

Get Caught Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

Earth Day this year is on a Saturday in April, although the earth’s environment is a topic that can be studied year-round in the classroom. Spring is a great time to assess students’ knowledge on the topic as well as research and explore resources that are available for teachers. Do they worry about the world’s waste?

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STEM Engineering Science Sciences 52

Vivify Stem

JUNE 1, 2022

I hoped to help students see STEM as more applicable to their lives by exploring a relevant topic in engineering and climate change: designing sustainable, eco-friendly homes. The Eco-House project is interdisciplinary, addressing topics in building science, financial budgeting and human impacts on the environment.

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STEM Energy Engineering Earth science 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

Crash Course is an immensely-popular YouTube video stream (with over a half a million viewers and counting) offered by two brothers who record weekly ten-fifteen minute videos addressing a wide variety of AP high school curriculum topics such as physics, astronomy, biology, history, chemistry, US history, World history, and computer science.

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Schooling Astronomy Physics Chemistry 152

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MARCH 26, 2019

If you watch the news, tolerance seems to be a lost art. This is not an easy topic. College kids shout down speakers. Mobs throw chairs through windows. Hordes of hooligans loot stores. It’s not that we don’t try. The Kindness Movement is more popular than ever. The final step is to act on the results.

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Teaching Curriculum Schooling Publication 193

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JUNE 9, 2017

There are dozens of reasons, from new bosses who want to shake things up to your husband gets a job in a different state. The only good news: Your boss told you already, giving you time to job hunt for the new school year. Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below.

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Robotics Teaching Curriculum Technology 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

This is a useful tool for rewording news stories to fit up to five different reading levels. You can push videos to students differentiated for their unique needs, share quick assessments to determine understanding, and ask students to provide evidence of their understanding. Here are my top five: Newsela.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Topics like health, history, geography, music, etc. Using books, assessments, and traditional methods of teaching are great to some extent, but you must make sure to be up to date with the information provided to your students. Make use of the Internet and have students check the news to improve their research skills.

Technology 151

Technology Education Education Geography 151

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APRIL 5, 2017

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Finance Economics Curriculum Schooling 154

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JULY 22, 2015

Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Compare these seven tech skills against the five suggested by US News and the ten from Education.com.

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Geography Computer Problem Solving Curriculum 295

ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Headlines about the teacher in Virginia being shot by her 6-year-old student blew up in the news, and recently, Nashville experienced its own tragedy when a school intruder at The Covenant School killed three students and three adults. Our students have a window into this violence that we could have never imagined.

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Schooling Elementary Teaching Equality 169

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. So why do students turn to it for news? This stat may explain it: 60% of people don’t trust traditional news sources. Many topics include thorough teacher resources such as lesson plans and assessments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

That’s good news for you – a shorter video takes less time to make! Dear Otto: How do I assess a project like Movie Maker? Now, our attention spans last around 8 seconds before we decide if we should stay focused or pay attention to something else. You can contact her via LinkedIn. More on videos: How to Teach With Videos.

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Education Education Creativity Communications 213

STEM Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

Look for chances to carry a bit of that relaxed feeling into the school year by using new tools that will help you assess student learning without an exam and offer those three magic ingredients: variety , choice , and agency. 3 Tools for Low-Pressure Learning & Assessment. The New Quiz. Studio Activity Templates.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Math Learning Academic Standards Accessibility 168

Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

In a recent news article, Andrea noted that her struggling readers in grades 7-8 used to read at a grade 5 or 6 (Barshay). We need to challenge and encourage kids to stretch and read about a topic that they are more interested in reading about. Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” 2019, October 14, 2021).

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Economics Schooling Primary Education 256

Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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Economics Government Mathematics Publication 111

The Blog of Phyz

JUNE 15, 2022

Assessments: quizzes, tests, exams. Construction: what should be assessed and how? To students, assessments may seem like nothing other than punishment. Others are all for ungrading , and are keen to share The Good News about that with anyone who will listen. Topic for a different thread. What a chore.

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Construction Energy Physics Schooling 40

STEM Discovery Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Speakers like Cody Keenan and Dr. Robert Marzano , engaging sessions on topics like equity, federal funding, and competency-bases systems, and a tour of the St. Vrain Valley Schools Innovation Center were all inspired by this year’s theme: The Great Emergence: Innovations Supporting the New Era of Education. News and World Report.

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STEM Discovery Education

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Keep reading for highlights of our key sessions , which led to open, honest conversations on topics like equity in education, funding, and competency-based learning systems. He is a highly-regarded speaker and workshop facilitator addressing a range of topics for local, regional, and national audiences. News and World Report.

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Competency-Based Learning Innovation Communications Publication 52

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

AUGUST 22, 2016

We meet the regional limnologist there and she briefly shares some information about pollution in the lake system and is on hand for questions (could alternatively Skype w/ a scientist or even watch a short watching a short video detailing pollution challenges – such as this news story ). It won’t be perfect the first time!

Chemistry 52

Chemistry Science Sciences Biology 52

National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Implicit bias develops over a lifetime and is described as attitudes or stereotypes that affect our judgements or assessments of others (NEA Center for Social Justice, 2021). Equitable and Inclusive Assessment Practices Communicate high learning standards and confidence in each student to achieve. yours), instead give many examples.

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Biology Achievement Physics Mathematics 52

STEMx

APRIL 30, 2020

Strategic planning and assessing the network’s current and future needs are always top of mind. The learning topics are centered around three critical components of STEM education: design thinking, STEAM career awareness, and exploration of STEM habits of mind.

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Computer Science STEM Innovation IoT 52

Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Educators can manage/create student accounts, take attendance, grade, and assess students in real-time, and much much more. News-O-Matic - A terrific free mobile app designed to bring 5 Common Core aligned articles to students. Ask3 - One of my favorite free iPad apps for adding narration to an image to visually explain any topic.

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Math Mobile Learning Innovation Geography 74