Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Last year, almost 300,000 students (age 4-104) participated from over 180 countries and wrote almost 20 billion lines of code. Feel free to use whichever project fits your students. Draw a Stickman is a web-based tool or app that turns a simple drawing into a story by asking questions of the creator. Third Grade — Pixel Art.

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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. Connecting Approaches to Teaching with Approaches to Learning. This proportion has remained stable since 2009” (OECD, 2018).

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

#EdClusters16 brought more than 140 leading educators, ed-tech entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and thought leaders to collaborate, work, and learn together. Mapping EdCluster Ecosystems. Identifying Indicators of Education Innovation. Support Research for Education Innovation. (See See a video snapshot of some of their work here ).

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edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

According to Learning in the 21st Century: the 2019 Digital Promise LVP Survey , 83% of teachers think students are capable of high achievement, but just 26% think students are reaching those levels today. When schools talk about personalized learning, one of the first things they need to do is consider these jagged profiles.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

The participants: Large district: Dr. Daryl Diamond, Director of Innovative Learning, Broward County Public Schools, FL. Researcher: Sierra Noakes, Senior Research Project Manager, Digital Promise. What role do learning goals play when searching for the best edtech? Then, learning goals drive the decision.

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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. About 20% of students in OECD countries, on average, do not attain the baseline level of proficiency in reading.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Thanks so much.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2018

A social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum adds valuable lessons to a student’s normal school day that will help propel them beyond academic success and onto success in life too. Rather than always following a strict curriculum of assignments, give students the opportunity to work on passion projects.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

The key backstory here is Milton Public Schools’ larger commitment to writing instruction across grade levels and subject areas. All of our teachers have had ample professional development in writing process and pedagogy, which helps to provide a strong knowledge base around the most effective practices,” says Gale. “All

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. has a different way to measure learning.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. has a different way to measure learning.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. has a different way to measure learning.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Learning Culture. Based on twelve years of research, she argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. Because they’re authentic and practical, micro-credentials result in powerful, personalized, skills-driven learning for students. personalized.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Project Ideas: Blank pages at the end of the workbook turn the workbook into a sketchbook in which users can draw their own circuit activities. The website has a growing collection of activities, projects, lesson plans with step-by-step instructions, a media gallery of images, and videos. Join the Circuit Scribe blog or community.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

And depending on their background and experience, not everyone is supportive of tech-infused learning. They are also more likely to back the initiative when the focus is on the learning and how to leverage tech to support it, rather than just on what device to get. Overall, communication is key at every step. Benigni, Ed.D.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

In May, Wysopal — also known by his hacker name, Weld Pond — joined several others in a return visit to Capitol Hill, where 20 years earlier they’d testified in a congressional hearing about the insecurities of software and networks. We now face everything from network-based ransomware worms to devastating wiper malware,” the company stated.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge , who published a list of “ The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech ,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and f**k-ups and flawed ideas.

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