Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2017

With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. These are the global demands of digital citizenship. population age 3 and over used the Internet.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This year’s event featured more than 800 sessions on various topics such as leadership, mathematics, STEAM, digital citizenship, literacy, English language arts, and more. New features include an Organization Library, Shared Libraries, Co-Editing, and Learning Management System Integrations.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Break through the stigma surrounding social media and learn how you can utilize it to foster communication with parents, develop and model digital citizenship skills with students, and grow personally in your field as an educator. How to Create Accessible and Equitable Library Collections.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Content filtering and web monitoring software aim to prevent students from accessing inappropriate materials online, and many options also include features to alert school leaders to cyberbullying and other instances in which students’ digital communications or web activity might indicate troubling behavior.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2018

Collect and assess data easily and quickly. Increase accessibility. access to Kiddom Academy for administrators. early access to new products and influence over future ones. Kiddom’s Content Library Makes Differentiation Faster Than Ever. Provide change in pedagogic frameworks. Provide more time to plan lessons.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

The definition of digital literacy is pretty much what you’d expect: “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” ” –from the American Library Association. NorthstarDigLit.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

In the following weeks, I noticed that he was not taking part in many online discussions and the contributions to his digital portfolio of work was minimal. After three months, Alex finally told me that he did not have internet access at home. To this end, we gathered data and identified the additional information we needed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Joyce : What’s different about this study and why is sharing these data so important? We actually have been working since 2017, to try to get this data project funded. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Break through the stigma surrounding social media and learn how you can utilize it to foster communication with parents, develop and model digital citizenship skills with students, and grow personally in your field as an educator. How to Create Accessible and Equitable Library Collections.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Emergency options and resources – Users can quickly access 911 or school safety officials, who can leverage location data in an emergency. School emergency procedures are posted in the app and are available with or without internet access.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Websites like Code.org have a great approach to making coding accessible to all kids but still, too few students think they are smart enough to do these jobs. Teachers can access a curriculum and resources for teaching. Despite robust pay, excellent work conditions, and the value they place on creativity, jobs sit open.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You might also want to get parent permission before allowing students access to the device. For a nice overview from a teacher, listen to Vicki Davis’ 10-minute Teacher podcast with Bill Selak , a teacher using a digital assistant in his classroom. Legal issues of using digital assistants in the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2017

Because students couldn’t access school-based materials at home (for reasons like no internet or no digital device), I had to assign homework that could be completed without school resources, by themselves. digital communication (such as email, messaging, discussion boards, and/or forums) for real-time feedback on homework.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Students engage in content creation , with the mantra "Earning your learning", by a variety of iPad apps and accessibility features.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

No last-minute “I forgot to print this” Yes, digital files do get lost but that’s a story for another time. increased organization: All those permission slips, AUPs, and exams can be curated into a digital file folder that is backed up automatically and never lost (“never” being a fungible sort of word).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Homework has come under fire the last few years as data surfaced that seemed to support the conclusion that homework is a waste of time. Find out if students have access to Wifi, computers. This is the elephant in the classroom-home connection. Make parents your partner. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. media library –collect and share media resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This is done through its standards-aligned assessment library or teacher-created assessments developed from a bank of over 60,000 standards-specific questions. When ready, students can access full-length practice tests as another method to self-assess progress. Data on Measuring Up. Measuring Up Live 2.0,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Create assignments from scratch or from an on-demand library where teachers select skills, grade level, and students to be targeted. Receive weekly emails from eSpark to summarize that week’s class data including opportunities for targeted instruction, feedback, and accomplishments. Access the assignment provided by the teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

This could include the grade-level teacher, computer lab specialist, library media specialist, and more. Evaluate student progress on the Learning Analytics Dashboard and use this data to tweak future lesson plans. For students without easy access to the Internet at home, have students download the PC-based Zap Zap Math.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2019

Yet as schools adopt technologies that can collect and monitor data in unprecedented ways, questions have emerged over how far surveillance should go—and whether educators, parents and students are aware of the implications and possible consequences. “We Others track behavior and disciplinary issues. We’re caught in the middle.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Note: This does require access to the MS server so you can only use it where WiFi is available. Then , choose one from the library or select Insert > Equation > Ink Equation , and manually write one with a stylus, mouse, or your fingers on the popup drawing board. Speed up MS Office with Quick Access Toolbar.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2022

We have access to more information than ever before. They will need to understand how to navigate a highly digital world and carry out various tasks that, in years past, were done without technology. In short, data literacy skills should be a priority in schools. What does data literacy mean for teachers and students? .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Since then, the Orton-Gillingham Method has enabled thousands of children to access worlds opened to them by reading, something they never thought would happen. Nationally, there is no significant change in 4th grade reading scores from 2011-2013 (NAEP, 2013). (* data from the Stern Center for Language and Learning ).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. That means it’s accessible from school or home, with any platform (including Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, and tablets).

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MindShift

AUGUST 30, 2018

We use these services by clicking “I Agree” on Terms of Service screens, trading off some of our private and personal data for seemingly free services. While these services say data collection helps create a better user experience, that data is also potentially exploitable. .

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

It’s happened to all of us– we’re at school trying to access the perfect website for a learning activity at school and… it’s blocked. While banning books is commonly recognized by librarians as detrimental to the student educational experience, restricted website access isn’t on everyone’s radar.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Using Digital Media in Your Teaching. It's a double-edged sword: Students and teachers have more access to digital media than ever before. Because so much instruction shifted online during the pandemic, many of us have become overly reliant on screens and digital media. Are distractions just a click away?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2016

This may include: Google Apps for Education and/or Google Classroom–this serves as a basic digital portfolio for students, a collaborative tool with classmates, the teacher’s inbox and her tool for returning graded and analyzed student work. digital devices for students–Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, or netbooks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

This may include: Google Apps for Education and/or Google Classroom–this serves as a basic digital portfolio for students, a collaborative tool with classmates, the teacher’s inbox, and her tool for returning graded and analyzed student work. digital devices for students–Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, or netbooks.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

“Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?” We also know that prioritizing underserved students means better literacy tools that support ELL students, which requires more internet access for students.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to the School Community Journal , “There is a sizable body of research literature supporting the involvement of parents in educational settings and activities” The data is so overwhelming, one of our important jobs as teachers must be to facilitate the involvement of parents in their child’s education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Teachers can start from scratch or build from anything in the FlexBooks library. As Curriki states, “Barriers to equal access to education begin to lift—geography and politics become immaterial. It is their mission that free and equal access to the best curriculum materials is possible. All content is stored in Google docs.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Bottom line: Access a hefty collection of reliable, ready-to-print, leveled passages that allow you to tailor lessons, assign online reading, and track progress. Free, expansive digital library unlocks treasure trove of books. Solid adaptive instruction in reading and math, with data at the ready. DreamBox Learning Math.

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