Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 10, 2020

Games are Easter Math, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Dress-up, Easter Word hunt, complete-the-sentence, and more. The five Easter-themed games are easy-to-understand (no directions required) with a countdown clock to motivate activity. In this Easter egg hunt, students work in groups to find paper eggs hidden around the room or school.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. For example, many math lessons focus on teaching the one correct path to reach the one right answer to a problem. Productive Struggle.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2021

Games are Easter Math, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Dress-up, Easter Word hunt, complete-the-sentence, and more. The five Easter-themed games are easy-to-understand (no directions required) with a countdown clock to motivate activity. In this Easter egg hunt, students work in groups to find paper eggs hidden around the room or school.

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

As schools and districts across the country transition to remote learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. Prior to her school closing due to COVID-19, Rahman was leading her biology class in a Challenge Based Learning experience on illness prevention.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Science teachers juggle myriad responsibilities—fostering inquiry skills, addressing state instructional standards, supporting math and literacy, and the list goes on. Yet, as we shared previously , 18 teachers from three districts in the League of Innovative Schools have pushed themselves to do just this.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2016

Global Teacher Prize Finalist Mike Soskil Shares His Secrets From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can unleash a student intrinsic motivation from the first day of school. First, you start the school year with authentic connections. Take time to test out Fresh Grade.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 25, 2022

While there is so much good going on— the ST Math Winter Waddle , several big edtech conferences, and the chance to reinvigorate students with math learning—there are also more hurdles than ever before. One of the simplest reasons I turn to it is to laugh, learn and feel motivated. It's not just us. We understand why!

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Technology in the classroom continues to transform the way that teachers teach and students learn. Simple techniques such as incorporating videos into learning or making lectures available online are already breaking down barriers when it comes to different learning styles, teaching students from a distance, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2019

Games are Easter Math, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Dress-up, Easter Word hunt, complete-the-sentence, and more. The five Easter-themed games are easy-to-understand (no directions required) with a countdown clock to motivate activity. In this Easter egg hunt, students work in groups to find paper eggs hidden around the room or school.

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Digital Citizenship Video eBook Assessment 172

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

10MT Episode #14 A Positive Way to Stand Against Bullying From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Was the student who is upset just overly sensitive? His unique solution changed the conversation at his school, showing us that we educators really do have an opportunity to change the conversation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

It’s the end of school. You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Give students a list of 10-15 webtools that are age-appropriate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran on episode 236 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Get motivated today listening to Pam. Get motivated today listening to Pam. That’s the world they knew as students. Recently, Vicki, I watched a young woman in one of our high schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Last year, only 61 percent of high school students who took the ACT English achievement test were deemed college-ready. In math, it was 41 percent. We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. Measuring Up Live 2.0,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2019

These automated humanoid bots often interact with users, require critical thinking and problem-solving, and grab the imagination of students in ways that makes everyone want to learn. Through these robots, students learn what to many is intimidating and abstract and impossible to learn: coding, What is Dash ? The Dash Blockly app.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 20, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers need personal professional development. In today’s blog post and podcast episode, we’re sharing five real-world examples of teachers who used their summer to improve their classroom and earn professional development credit.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2019

Of all the gifts students receive from education, passion is the greatest. If students are taught that learning is difficult, that math and science are boring, that history is a waste of time, they miss out on life’s most exciting, most meaningful motivator: passion. Why passion is important for students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. School leadership is more challenging than ever. Practical, encouraging ideas are shared throughout this show for principals, administrators, and anyone working to encourage school leaders. Norwood Elementary School. Readlee - Show Sponsor.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 16, 2020

Schools across the United States and the world are closing due to the coronavirus pandemic and the urgent need for social distancing. This leaves teachers and schools scrambling to figure out how to keep kids learning at home during this time. Lesson-Planning Apps and Websites : Paperless, painless planning for teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

It’s the end of school. You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Give students a list of 10-15 webtools that are age-appropriate.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship eBook Groups 150

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Episode 137 with Dr. Michelle Zimmerman on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FutureFit aligns social emotional learning and character education with your traditional subjects of math, language arts, sciences and more for grades K-12.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Limited vocabulary, low reading ability, and low investment of time in reading often go hand in hand, since students usually learn more sophisticated words through reading, rather than from informal sources.1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s the end of school. You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Give students a list of 10-15 webtools that are age-appropriate.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship eBook Groups 150

MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

How Administrators, Educators, and Students Accelerate Learning Here at MIND Education, we’ve been brimming with excitement these past few months as we prepared for our 2023 Annual ST Math User Conference. Student academic achievement reached an all-time low. Student academic achievement reached an all-time low.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 15, 2023

I’m excited to be sharing this post with you, especially if you’re gearing up for another fantastic school year. Therefore, the activities and tone set on this day can significantly influence the rest of the school year. Split students into groups or pairs and ask them to discuss or debate the topic.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Mathematics is created by humans, math teachers are humans and math students are humans. Yet many contemporary math classrooms erase humans from the equation. A sterile textbook, a teacher writing on a chalkboard and rarely turning around,” said Sam Shah , a high school math teacher in Brooklyn, New York.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Our students live in a world saturated with all kinds of news. As parents and teachers we need to make sure our kids and students do not fall for such news and that they are empowered with the necessary media literacy skills to help them safely navigate this fake-news-infected world.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It results in students understanding content at a deeper level and applying that learning to more difficult and complex problems. It's what we want for all students. But did you know that some teaching methods could block students' potential for developing productive struggle in math? Praising students for their smarts.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Providing science and math content online can be relatively straightforward, but engaging students in true distance learning requires more than just transmittal of information. Math Made Meaningful. For Kim, a Friday the 13 th in March was the day when she and her students learned they would not be returning to the classroom.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

Too many students drop out of school, and this isn’t the way to get successful citizens to lead their country forward. Students fall off the educational conveyor belt all the time. Standardized curricula, standardized tests and standardized policies don’t respond to the needs of all students. Nor teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2018

Brian Bean on episode 323 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. SMART wants to recognize educators across the globe who inspire greatness in their students, peers or community. Students literally have to buy the desk that they want to sit in. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

We know that dips in student engagement have dramatic effects on the metrics we care about: academic performance, social emotional learning (SEL), school climate, and attendance. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Limited vocabulary, low reading ability, and low investment of time in reading often go hand in hand, since students usually learn more sophisticated words through reading, rather than from informal sources.1.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

It’s 8:28 am and you’re trying to make sure that the four chair bouncy bands around chairs are still with the correct four desks for those students who need to bounce their feet. When you pick students up from lunch, however, there are a whole host of other issues. Some days, I am truly exhausted by students.

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Georgia Test Prep

JUNE 26, 2020

We knew that the teachers at school were doing a great job in teaching them the Georgia standards. It was hard to find out which ones were relevant to the subject material taught at school and which ones would mimic how their testing was going to look like. This was becoming tiresome and redundant. And that is what we are here for!!!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Teachers and administrators don't always see eye to eye, but a recent report from Teachers Pay Teachers ( TpT ) shows they're aligned on one very important point: differentiation is essential for student achievement. Educators review student data and discuss appropriate resources. Blog: Differentiation Daily.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. Soundtrap offers 20 Best of #ISTE19 podcasts. Here are our slides.

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