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JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days.

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MAY 13, 2020

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: Find Public Domain Images.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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JULY 25, 2023

Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard. Cook, who is editor in chief at the experimental academic publisher Allegra Lab , ended up becoming a podcaster himself, and a fan of the growing number of podcasts made by other professors and educators.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

History in 2021 grades every state on their civics and history standards that guide teaching and learning in these content areas. Read on… For more websites that teach civics for MS and HS, check out these: Argument Wars. Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The students have voted with their feet, Van Valkenburgh adds. A Barrier to STEM?

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JUNE 22, 2023

A college probably wouldn’t hire a teaching assistant who tends to lie to students about course content or deadlines. The university has spent many years building its own AI chatbot that it uses as a teaching assistant, known as Jill Watson. Nothing changes in the role of the professor.” So Ashok K.

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JULY 26, 2022

The future of American society depends on our ability as parents, educators, edtech professionals and legislators to collaboratively teach our children that words actually do matter. Public opinion polls show the magnitude of the challenge. Teach civility and digital civility in college and university settings.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 invention education curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem-identification, problem-solving, entrepreneurship and creativity skills and builds confidence in invention, innovation and entrepreneurship for life.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. cyberbullying. digital commerce.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative. King, Ph.D.,

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APRIL 21, 2020

Here’s what I currently use to teach from home or can easily arrange: Have necessary apps on iPads and smartphones. If you go somewhere else to work (I was going to say a coffee shop but that’s out of bounds this month), don’t use a public WiFi. Public WiFi like Starbucks are notoriously insecure. 10 Tips for Teaching Remotely.

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MARCH 23, 2020

Bring poets and poetry to the public in immediate and innovative ways. Encourage increased publication, distribution, and sales of poetry books. Increase public and private philanthropic support for poets and poetry. A seminal reason for teaching — and learning — poetry is to nurture creativity.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death. When I teach history, I teach like my life depends on it.

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MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. cyberbullying. digital commerce.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

How do you teach kindergarteners to beware of the digital neighborhood, the home of Legoland and virtual pets? How do you teach fifth graders to be careful when the cool middle schoolers aren’t? How do you teach eighth graders that they aren’t invincible despite the anonymity of the world wide web.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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APRIL 26, 2024

There are a few problems with those debates, says Morgan Polikoff , one of which is that they’re not particularly informed by evidence about what people want for public education. Researchers started by asking participants about the fundamental purposes of public education, and they found some common values right off the bat.

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JULY 21, 2023

Here are popular online resources to teach about Civics and Government. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Here are popular resources teachers are using to teach about digital citizenship. Fair use/Public domain. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Click the titles for more links: Avatars. Copyrights and Digital Laws. Curriculum. Applied Digital Skills –all tech skills. Cyberbullying. Cybersecurity.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Dragon and Lion Dances: Traditional dragon and lion dances are performed in streets and public spaces to bring good luck and prosperity to the community. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Temple Visits: Many people visit temples during Chinese New Year to pray for good fortune and make offerings.

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MAY 28, 2024

Summer is a great time to reset your personal pedagogy to an education-friendly mindset and catch up on what’s been changing in the ed world while you were teaching eight ten hours a day. A Handbook for Beginning Teachers by Robert E. These techniques are concrete, specific, and easy to implement immediately.

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MARCH 7, 2024

The unusual idea seems in some ways like a publicity stunt to call attention to a the academic major it offers in artificial intelligence — and local TV news stations pounced on the notion that nonhuman classmates would be participating side-by-side in hybrid college classes with T-shirt-clad young people.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Public Domain Day and Happy New Year! How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving. Simulations as a Teaching Strategy. Teacher Training: Model Teaching. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Here are the most-read posts for the month of January. Ready To Go Back To School?

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in January: Public Domain Day. Teaching Math. How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Subscriber Special and MLK Day. 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2021. Free Posters.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Established by presidential proclamation more than 25 years ago, this annual public awareness program encourages citizens young and old to think and learn about the significance of place and how we affect and are affected by it. Each year more than 100,000 Americans actively participate in Geography Awareness Week.

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APRIL 11, 2024

But somewhere around the twentieth post– This is why I teach more personal, but blocky, not visual, too long, and not about writing. Better: Save the picture to your device (assuming it’s public domain or with the creator’s permission) and upload to your post. The second post was easier and so it went. Do a good job.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Our language around how we teach, live, and create successful businesses and governmental organizations needs to change. As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Plurking, tweeting, and playing with your wiki in public are acceptable behaviors. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Can you add to this list? You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When… You can’t remember the last time you printed a classroom document.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

This includes (links are live on publication day) : An Overview of This Week (this post) — Dec. This includes (links are live on publication day) : An Overview of This Week (this post) — Dec. Kid-created Games That Teach Looking for a Class Robot? This year so far: 1,706,394,983 hours in 180+ countries.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. cyberbullying. digital commerce.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

This includes (links are live on publication day) : An Overview of This Week. Kid-created Games That Teach. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Long list of websites by grade. 10 Unusual Projects. 6 Unplugged Hour of Code Activities. Build Your Own Apps. Build Websites. Looking for a Class Robot?

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Now, all public schools are coming up with remote learning plans. For more about teaching during the pandemic, check out these articles from Ask a Tech Teacher: 10 Digital Platforms to Teach Remotely. 10 Tips for Teaching Remotely. Teaching During #CoronaVirus–An Old Strategy That’s Perfect. But they vary.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. It’s worth a listen if you missed it, with scenes from a visit to a state university where I sat in on several classes to talk to professors and students firsthand about the issue.

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APRIL 12, 2024

I–like many teachers–do a lot of prep for my teaching, often requiring digital desktop publishing platforms. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Then I got an email from the folks at Creative Fabrica. 100% of the fee paid by buyers is passed on to the creator.

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APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. The researchers are looking at public high schools with higher-than- average proportions of students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Classes in Remote Teaching. Game-based Learning in Remote Teaching. Public Domain Day and Happy New Year! Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Here are the most-read posts for the month of January. 5 (free) Shortkey Posters. 9 Great Websites to Inspire 3rd Graders. Top 10 Reviews of 2020.

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