Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2025

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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ED Surge

JUNE 20, 2025

When generative AI entered classrooms, it promised a revolution. For many teachers, it delivered an avalanche of tools instead. While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 20, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts. This week's “Cool Cat Teacher Talk” is a jam-packed episode covers 15 cutting-edge AI tools, 15 critical education headlines, plus essential wellness strategies specifically for busy teachers. Watch the YouTube Episode Watch this video on YouTube.Subscribe to the Cool Cat Teacher Channel on YouTube Listen to the Podcast What You'll Learn in This Episode AI Tools T

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Accelerate Learning

JUNE 5, 2025

How To Tell a Science Story Weve always used narrative and stories to explain, remember, and connect. With our youngest learners, stories spark curiosity and engagement, but they also help make abstract concepts tangible and memorable.

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Searching for innovative ways to deliver integrated STEAM education that also help students attain industry-ready skills? Then this punchy 30-minute thought leadership webinar is for you. Join fellow education leaders as we share: National data on STEAM performance and student engagement that indicates post-pandemic learners are craving inspired intervention 10 research-backed reasons why game design is the leading method for practically teaching integrated STEAM education An inside look at live

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All About STEM

JUNE 18, 2025

Get children involved in CREST Awards with low-cost resources and everyday household items! In collaboration with Mewburn Ellis, CREST Awards has created Star and Superstar ‘on a shoestring’ project packs. The activities are designed to be easy-to-run and low-cost.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Montessori education emphasizes hands-on, self-directed learning with natural materials, fostering independence and curiosity. Technology, often seen as a distraction, can be integrated thoughtfully, especially for younger children. What is the intersection of the two? Here are thoughts from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: Blending Montessori and Technology: Finding the Right Balance in Early Childhood Education These days, it seems that all toddlers master how to swipe across a screen before they

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2025

Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. That’s when she knows students are using an artificial intelligence tool to write an answer.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 19, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts. AI tools for teachers are transforming how we teach, but they're also creating new security challenges we must address. But some people just what ChatGPT teacher tips. That isn't enough! There are so many more tools, ideas, and technologies than just AI that we need to be discussing.

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Accelerate Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

In today’s classrooms, students aren’t just reading textbooks. They’re decoding digital information, scrolling through newsfeeds, and encountering AI-generated content. But while technology evolves, literacy instruction in many classrooms still centers on traditional skills. This mismatch can leave students unprepared to navigate the complexities of a multimodal world.

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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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All About STEM

JUNE 13, 2025

The Liverpool City Region Careers Hub Student Careers Champions Programme is aimed at 11-19-year-olds in Secondary Schools and Further Education Colleges. The Programme is designed to improve pupil, staff and parents’ understanding of growth sectors and a wider understanding of local labour market information (LMI).

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Middle Web

JUNE 8, 2025

Getting students to show their reasoning isn’t about adding one more step, writes math coach Mona Iehl. It’s about redefining how math learning happens and coming to see that students learn not through memorizing steps, but through reasoning, discussion, and exploration. The post Getting Math Students to Show Their Reasoning first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2025

Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you’ve prepared them with basic computer skills. I’ve provided links but they aren’t live until publication: Photoshop artwork –already live Photoshop actions –already live Photoshop basics Photoshop filter and rendering tools Photoshop starters–auto-correct with the auto-correction tools–those quick fixes that make a photo look cleaner (coming up) Photoshop crop tool– with the lasso

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ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2025

For Aspire Public Schools in Los Angeles, the turnaround took a couple of years. Coming back from the pandemic, the 11 charter schools serving about 4,400 students saw a steep drop in credentialed teachers sticking with their roles. So relying on a program at Alder Graduate School of Education that pays graduate students to work as teachers-in-training, Aspire built an internal pipeline of new educators.

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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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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 5, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts. Teaching artificial intelligence is different. It is different because AI tools interact differently with each of us. Therefore, I cannot expect to have all of the knowledge because each person has a different experience. So, as I teach artificial intelligence I want students to be able to show their screens, discuss their prompts and go through the iterative process as we di

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Accelerate Learning

JUNE 20, 2025

Preschool classrooms are full of energy—and that’s a good thing. Busy hands, curious questions, and joyful noise can all be signs of meaningful learning. Still, many teachers are expected to “manage” that energy by keeping things quiet and manageable.

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All About STEM

JUNE 20, 2025

Join The Careers & Enterprise Company on the 16th of July to hear more about the Government’s commitment for every young person to access high-quality, multiple workplace experiences, totalling 10 days’ worth throughout secondary education. “This new, modern approach to work experience will help young people make informed choices and improve career readiness and employability.

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Middle Web

JUNE 1, 2025

Why do we read and write in the first place? ELA teacher Jason DeHart explores the importance of maintaining multiple avenues for students to read mentor texts, write every day, get teacher feedback, and collaborate as they create in English class and across content areas. The post Literacy Skills Flourish with Our Daily Attention first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2025

What are parents and teachers most worried about over the summer? That kids will lose their sharp education edge, dulled by sun and sand and something else. Worry no more. Your cure: learning disguised as play. Kids will think they’re playing games, but are actually participating in [mostly] free simulations available in the education field. A note: some must be downloaded and a few purchased, so the link might take you to a website that provides access rather than play.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2025

When artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT were first introduced for public use in 2022, Gillian Hayes, vice provost for academic personnel at the University of California, Irvine, remembers how people were setting up rules around AI without a good understanding of what it truly was or how it would be used. The moment felt akin to the industrial or agricultural revolutions, Hayes says.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 2, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts. Are we racing toward an AI future without asking the right questions? Author and ed-tech critic Audrey Watters joins me to show teachers how to hit pause, get thoughtful, and keep classroom relationships at the center. Rise Vision – Episode Sponsor When teaching AI, seeing how each student uniquely interacts with technology is essential.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 13, 2025

If you’ve heard the term “restorative practice” and are interested in bringing it into your classroom but worry it takes special training or has to be part of a schoolwide plan, don’t stress—it doesn’t. If you’re a classroom teacher who wants to help students learn from their mistakes, take responsibility for their actions, and make things right with others, you can start using restorative practices today.

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All About STEM

JUNE 2, 2025

Liverpool City Region Careers Hub has announced a new campaign designed to support SME businesses to engage with schools and colleges. “We can support you with your work experience offer. Whether this is a few days, an hour, within your setting or at a school, work experiences come in all shapes and sizes!

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Middle Web

JUNE 3, 2025

Language specialist Tan Huynh goes beyond familiar methods of scaffolding for paragraph development to help multilingual students understand how sentences interact for cause and effect, adding details, explanation, and contrast using a TABBS structure he has developed. The post Organizing Writing at the Paragraph Level first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2025

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: 7 Netiquette Tips Category: Internet Sub-category: MS Office, Keyboarding Q: What are the most important netiquette tips for students when using the Internet?

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2025

Social media platforms like Instagram, X and TikTok have become landscapes for learning and increasing awareness of topics like mental health. But for children who are learning how to navigate virtual spaces, the pitfalls are many and hidden. Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which kids are unlikely to fully grasp even if the information is trustworthy.

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STEM Education Works

JUNE 12, 2025

June is Pride Month , a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and reflect on how we can foster more inclusive environments in every space, including STEM. From hidden pioneers of the past to bold innovators of today, LGBTQ+ individuals have always played an important role in shaping science, technology, engineering, and math. Yet, they’ve often done so while facing systemic barriers and invisibility.

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Online Math for All

JUNE 18, 2025

DIGITAL SAT MATH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS (Part - 189) Problem 1 : A triangle has vertices A (3, 2), B (3, 6) and C (7, 2). Another triangle has vertices P (3, 2), Q (3, 6 + k ) and R (7 + k , 2) and one acute angle at the vertex Q. If k > 0, then what is the measure of the other acute angle? Solution : Problem 2 : 7 x – 9 y = 39 35 x – 45 y = 195 For any real number r , which of the following points lies on the graph of both the equations?

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All About STEM

JUNE 11, 2025

It’s Clean Air Day on June 19th 2025! Clean Air Day is an opportunity for learners to find out more about air pollution, learn about green careers and discover how to help make the air cleaner and healthier for everyone.

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