Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

BOGO — Buy one class; get a friend in for free. Last chance–class starts Monday, July 10th! The Tech-infused Class. Digs deeper into digital tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Create digital portfolios that store, share, and curate work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

Last chance–class starts Monday, July 10th! This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Click to join. Course Objectives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

This summer, Ask a Tech Teacher is holding five Summer Learning classes : Tech-infused Teacher (Certificate edition for CEUs or grad class for college credit ). Tech-infused Class. 20 Webtools in 20 Days (for groups interested in learning webtools from the Structured Learning curriculum ). You like change.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2017

Many of the existential guides for teaching (such as Habits of Mind , the Socrative Method , and Mindfulness ) promote a student-driven growth mindset as fundamental to successful learning. This means students take an active part in achieving education and personal goals. Either set up a new class or import one from Google Classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Where it used to be sufficient to teach students how to thrive in their home country, that falls woefully short in a world where the internet reaches everyone, anywhere, where geopolitical borders have little effect on international activities, where the customs and culture of a country have a significant impact on student learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. How many answers students got right told the teacher how much they knew. These can be used formatively or summatively and can be created by teachers or students-as-teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Matthew Farber on episode 268 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On today’s show Matthew Farber, author of Game-Based Learning In Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games , talks about how to use games in the classroom effectively. Listen Now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This December will again host the Hour of Code , a one-hour introduction to programming designed to demystify the subject and show that anyone can be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Last year, almost 300,000 students (age 4-104) participated from over 180 countries and wrote almost 20 billion lines of code.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This December will again host the Hour of Code , a one-hour introduction to programming designed to demystify the subject and show that anyone can be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Last year, almost 300,000 students (age 4-104) participated from over 180 countries and wrote almost 20 billion lines of code.

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iPad Common Core Digital Citizenship Examples 196

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

You consider yourself darn lucky to be working with colleagues that are friends and a boss who always puts your needs first. Most of the teachers at your school have been there years — even decades — and you have no doubt that, too, will be you. In short, you found the square hole that fits your square peg.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

Collecting class data, asking for feedback on activities, and pushing out quizzes used to be laboriously accomplished by passing out paper documents, collecting them as they dribbled in, and then collating the data into a spreadsheet where you could sort and shake to come up with the useful information. class enrollments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. I remind students of the five-paragraph essay, synonyms, plan-revise-edit-rewrite, persuasive essays, letter writing, or whatever fits the day’s lesson. Use technology to produce and publish writing.

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Assessment Common Core Analysis Digital Citizenship 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

Have you ever walked into a classroom where students were engaged in serious on-topic discussion, debating ideas and challenging each other to provide evidence of their statements? Chances are, you entered a classroom using a discussion method known as Socratic Debate , aka Socratic Method, Socratic Circle, or Socratic Inquiry.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom Guidelines 252

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 4, 2019

The post 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you ready to use audio in Google Slides? Rolling out in April 2019 is the ability to insert audio into your Google Slides presentations and projects! This gives us even more reasons to use the Swiss Army Knife of G Suite!

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Users with a personal Google account can now both join and create classes. This opens so many doors for teachers, students, and parents to connect, collaborate and learn.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. In DP, “local and global contexts” are used in a more literal way. Connecting Approaches to Teaching with Approaches to Learning.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. This third installment addresses how teaching developed in local and global contexts enriches students’ communication skills.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve tried to steer away from a traditional orientation where students hear the do’s and don’ts in the library. The message that I really want students to hear is about the joy of reading. I want them to hear how books can be windows into other worlds and other perspectives. What is that right message?

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Information from A to Z on EdTech and teaching, it should you your go-to resource. Love TeacherCast March 20, 2015 by @wfsuper from United States If you're looking for great educational resources, look no further than the TeacherCast platform created by Jeff Bradbury. The topics are timely and appropriate for K-12 educators.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

Excerpted from “ The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students ,” by Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski, with permission from the authors. For English Language Learners, this anxiety can be heightened because they are also speaking in a new language. GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

So take a browse through the list or jump direct to your area of interest. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here are the BEST Blog Posts and Podcasts of 2022! I have compiled a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts and podcast episodes from 2022. Let’s take some time to reflect on the positive and make 2023 the best year yet! The Top 20 Posts of 2022. What Do YOU Want to See in 2023?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2018

Kyle Pearce on episode 304 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Kyle Pearce talks about how to make math visual for students. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Kyle Pearce K-12 math consultant in Greater Essex County, Ontario. Listen Now.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Adobe Spark is a free graphic design app that allows students and teachers with no design experience to create impactful graphics, web stories, and animated videos. You can access files in Dropbox, Google Photos, YouTube, Vimeo, or upload them from your local computer. Just pick the one best suited to your communication style.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But that’s just one part of guarding student information. During a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , the presenters discussed the policies and practices that also keep data safe in a digital education environment. Based on CoSN’s “ Student Data Privacy: A School System Priority.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, blended learning is a style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media and traditional face-to-face teaching. Jason Van Heukelum, Superintendent, “You don’t want to stifle that creativity and innovation with your teachers.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Regardless of their origin, these products help extend the offerings in makerspaces and enable students to make connections between the curriculum and their lives. Audience: Ages 8+ What it Does: Each Maker Kit contains 17 assorted magnetic components and color-coded modules that students can use to build and create circuit activities.

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techlearning

AUGUST 9, 2018

In 2014 I wrote what would be my most popular blog post ever. For the most part, people tended to look at the infographic and pass judgement on whether or not these were things that teachers “should” do in the classroom without reading the blog at all. All that to say – Congratulations! Yes, technology costs money.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. There is still time to submit your presentation proposals.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Each of these leaders is working in thoughtful and creative ways on the frontlines of some of today’s most pressing issues—from the way we think about learning, AI, and innovation to gun control, refugees, and student privacy. His generation, Hoth says, has “used technology and underestimation to our advantage.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: March 4, 2017 Algorithm Tips | Computational Journalism Lab → A growing list of potentially newsworthy algorithms used by the U.S. government.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.” (And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

“ Trump and Chief Strategist Pick Bannon Disagreed on Foreign Student Policy,” says Inside Higher Ed. That is, Trump thought foreign students who graduate from “top” universities should get to stay in the US. I’ve been urging people to watch the private student loan market for a while now.

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