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Keyboarding Pedagogy

Ask a Tech Teacher

On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , posts about keyboarding are read about thrice as often as any other topic. That means, Kindergartners learn to put t heir hands o n the keyboar d. First graders l earn to put their hands on the correct side of the keyboard. I teach posture as well as hands. How do I teach keyboarding?

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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Formative Assessment Strategies There are different categories of formative assessment, including observational assessments, checks for understanding, and formative feedback. Let’s explore examples in each category of formative assessment. Contribution: Does the student contribute relevant ideas, questions, or solutions?

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Tech Tip #31: 10 Best Keyboarding Hints

Ask a Tech Teacher

Category: Keyboarding. This keeps your hands in the right spot—home row—at the right angle (parallel to the rows). This keeps your hands in the right spot—home row—at the right angle (parallel to the rows). That leaves your hands ready, on home row. Fingers move, not your hands. Don’t do it on a keyboard either.

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Creating Digital Notebooks with Google Slides

Catlin Tucker

This makes it easy to customize the categories and content for a specific unit. Separate each section of the notebook with a title slide that states the category of that section (e.g., Separate each section of the notebook with a title slide that states the category of that section (e.g., guided notes or vocabulary).

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Student-Designed Review Games with Quizizz

Catlin Tucker

As anyone who reads this blog regularly will already know, I don’t think teachers should invest hours creating review activities that students are perfectly capable of generating. Ideally, each team would make a Quizizz game for a category of information (e.g., This strategy shifts students from consumers to producers.

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3 Ways to Thank Administrators

The CoolCatTeacher

Frank Buck on Episode 389 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Thankfulness is modeled and shown by how we appreciate those around us. “Global Gurus Top 30” ranked him #1 “Time Management” category for 2019.

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How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning

Neo LMS

Schools and teachers play an essential role in making parents or caretakers as involved in their children’s learning as possible, but they themselves can also take matters into their own hands if they truly want it. It starts at home: the first teachers a child has are their parents. Either way, education technology is here to help.