Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 22, 2016

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. It’s becoming more common as students start life on iPads: Do you have any suggestions for kids who have developed substitute patterns for using home row keys? K-8 Keyboard Curriculum.

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Digital Citizenship iPad Study Resources 172

Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Project-based learning , as we have often examined in this blog, is a powerful way to not only impart information, by exploration, but has the added advantage of stimulating and developing a range of other skills and habits such as communication, creativity, curiosity, confidence and collaboration. 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study.

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Common Core Elementary Case Study Guidelines 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

For years, my teaching revolved around textbooks as my resources. When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. But that has changed.

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Blended Learning Khan Academy Learning Blackboard 175

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

School leaders trying to make decisions about whether and how to reopen physical classrooms this fall are feeling the absence of useful statistics acutely. They’re not getting health and safety data from the government agencies that might be best positioned to collect and publish it. Neither is the federal Department of Education.

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Data Education Guidelines Secondary 154

My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 15, 2014

This wasn''t going to be a summer of running summer camps, or teaching middle school students to blog. I am looking forward to sharing what I know about blogging and programming and learning more about makerspace, minecraft, and STEM in all things. I want them to write blogs and play with robots.

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Robotics iPad STEM Learning 73

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

How I used my time offline in December. I had trouble getting out of bed, and doing any kind of work required herculean levels of focus and energy. I was hitting a breaking point, and as I shared in EP211 when I was announcing my sabbatical, I started taking Zoloft in August, and that really helped turn things around. (I

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Training Social Media Classroom System 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2020

MTI 563 starts Monday, July 6, 2020! Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. What You Get. Accounts for online tools like a blog, Twitter, various web-based tools.

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Differentiated Instruction Common Core Digital Citizenship LMS 251