Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Because it turns out that Donalds, Optima Academy Online’s founder, is a longtime Republican activist pushing for ways for parents to opt out of public schools. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, or use the player on this page.

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Publication Schooling Flexibility Accessibility 236

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. In this role, we often operate in what we can deal with and less what we deserve as public school educators. What Our Students Deserve Our public school students deserve the world.

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Publication Schooling Flexibility Physics 265

Box Light

MARCH 5, 2024

Clayton County Public Schools (Jonesboro, GA) and Boxlight's partnership spanning over eight years has significantly transformed education by addressing the challenges posed by outdated technology. CCPS faced issues with aging projectors, prompting a strategic collaboration with Boxlight.

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Publication Innovation Schooling Teaching 77

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, wrote an interesting article on changes in teaching since the pandemic. I think you’ll find a lot to relate to: Has Teaching Changed Since the Pandemic? The highly-publicized exodus of teachers from the profession exacerbates educating students.

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Teaching Artificial Intelligence EdTech Accessibility 386

ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It's hard to teach math, period.

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Teaching Algebra Schooling Math 261

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Teaching Schooling Government Argumentation 294

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. I learned the basics of how to be a teacher in my college classes and then learned even more during student teaching from experienced educators. Chicago Public Schools has four crisis counselors for over 340,000 students.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

Cook argues that the countless interviews that educators are conducting and posting as episodes of their own podcasts represent what he calls an “insurgency” against the way researchers typically share their work with each other and the broader public. “I What are some of the ways podcasts are now used in a teaching setting?

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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Teaching Energy Schooling Publication 244

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When Steven Chan founded Goodnotes, he was a student at the time, and so his commitment to understanding the teaching and learning experiences of the community he built was essential to his mission, which is to revolutionize the way ideas are shaped and amplified.

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Teaching Artificial Intelligence Learning Research 214

Educators Technology

JULY 29, 2022

Veteran, award-winning teacher Phil Done (32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny) has knocked it out of the park again with his recently released The Art of Teaching Children: All I Learned from a Lifetime in the Classroom by Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. He has also served as an educational consultant around the world.

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Teaching Schooling Mobile Learning Publication 302

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. The reality is, as much as I love teaching my content, I don’t have the capacity to do the individualized planning to support every child’s learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Recognizing the students' enthusiasm for these pixelated realms, I experimented with it in my teaching practice. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. And the class seemed to be filtering out women and minorities from progressing in the department.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Teaching Publication Primary Curriculum 261

ED Surge

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Teaching Publication Communications Curriculum 226

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In my thirteen years of teaching, I’ve lost more students than I can count on two hands. It has not been possible for me to continue to teach unchanged by these losses and the structural reality that ensures they will continue. We cannot teach well enough to save all our children from an unwell society. It simply isn’t true.

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Teaching Schooling Publication Education 257

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

And she’s been exploring innovative teaching strategies to help best reach her diverse students. Lander teaches history and civics at this large public school in Massachusetts, and she says one of the most important strategies is to find ways to bring out her students’ stories in the classroom.

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Teaching Innovation Publication Schooling 241

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In many of his videos, he acts out scenes from famous Hollywood films, except swapping in terms from the strategic management courses he teaches. She challenged students to put their TikTok skills to use explaining science concepts, and what research looks like, to the public with posts. Sixty-seven percent of U.S.

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Professor Teaching Communications Research 261

Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 23, 2023

April is Financial Literacy Month, so it's the perfect time to teach financial literacy. In this post, I’ll share with you these resources, how I recommend that you use them, and some interesting pointers I’ve learned as I teach students financial literacy. EVERFI sponsored this post. Job prospects are expected to be excellent.

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Teaching Finance Economics Data Science 238

ED Surge

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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The Maker Mom

DECEMBER 30, 2023

One of the best ways children learn to develop ideas and communicate with others is through public speaking and debate. Their classes teach children to think critically, express themselves clearly, and listen to opposing views. The online courses start at an introductory level, teaching the basics of debate with light homework.

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Publication Argumentation Critical Thinking Research 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Blended Learning Teaching Learning Construction 377

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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Technology Teaching Schooling EdTech 280

ED Surge

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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Education Education Elementary Publication 328

ED Surge

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. Georgia Tech happens to have an unusual ally in its quest to tame ChatGPT.

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Middle Web

MAY 21, 2023

Williamson and Blackburn highlight four good reasons to be optimistic about the future of America’s public schools. Community approval is the highest in nearly 50 years; teachers are better prepared for the future, and the resilience of public educators remains remarkable.

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ED Surge

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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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2022

You can also specify the name of the author and date of publication and when your post is ready click on Post. Click on Add New Block to add more friends. In the Post section you can write your post, add hyperlinks to videos from YouTube or Vimeo and upload images. Fakebook also enables you to save your template to edit it later.

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Teaching Chemistry Government Mobile Learning 297

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching,” says Sherlock, now 62. For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching. Julie Sherlock She meant it, too. I wanted to be good at it.

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Teaching Energy Schooling Elementary 298

Computer Science Teacher

JULY 19, 2022

For example As CS becomes more part of the system I expect teachers to have less freedom in what they teach and how they teach. In talking to a lot of teachers at CSTA 2022, I realized that most CS teachers have a lot of freedom in what they teach as CS and how they teach it. That is both exciting and scary.

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Computer Science Computer Teaching Science 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Artificial Intelligence Problem Solving Creativity Curriculum 342

ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2024

Sadly, this feeling has become my new normal as I navigate post-pandemic teaching. A recent conversation with a friend about my teaching woes ended with him saying, “Don’t let it consume you.” What It Means to Teach in Texas in 2024 I teach in Texas where it seems like every day brings a new nightmare.

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