Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you’re a senior in HS looking to continue your tech education, we have a list of the ten best colleges that will help you perfect your skills: 10 Best Colleges in the USA to Study Computer Science. Computer Science is a desirable degree for many students as it has great prospects and is linked to innovation in technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Just as we discuss personalizing learning for students, we as teachers have a responsibility to personalize learning for ourselves. In this post, I’m going to take you through the five steps I use to determine my own summer professional development.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

Here’s a riddle for you: What came first: the practice or the research? You might say, “practice, of course!” While that might be true, the first teachers probably also did some research of their own. They developed theories about the best ways to hunt, stay warm and stay away from predators at all costs.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? We are passionate about creating equitable learning and building research-practice partnerships. Key Features of Learning Sciences Research.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we share a must-listen podcast for educators who want to help their students succeed financially. With April being financial literacy month, there's no better time to tune in and learn how to integrate financial literacy into your curriculum.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

The Resurgence of 3D Printers in Modern Learning Environments. 3D modeling and printers can bring almost any educational concept to life, while building practical skills such as problem-solving, creative coding and design. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 06/10/2019 - 09:56. 3D Printing Engages Students.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 25, 2019

Dr Mitchell Resnick, MIT professor of learning research, heads up the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group. Resnick’s aim is to inject into formal learning some of the play, joy and abandon found when five-year olds learn, in particular when they learn and create with each other.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

To help out all of our teacher friends, we are offering a series of posts focused on practical ways that you can use ChatGPT to assist with your own lesson design! To help, we’ll provide you with sample ChatGPT Prompts for each activity. As an AI language model, ChatGPT can be used for role-playing in a variety of ways.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 12, 2024

“But you can’t divide a fraction by another fraction unless you find the reciprocal.” ” “Yes, you can and here’s how.” Of course, I made the argument that teaching kids to divide fractions by actual division instills the actual concept of division better than the workaround.

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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. Is it helpful? I hope this extended episode serves as a helpful addition to the AI discussion. Stay tuned at the end of the show to learn more about these valuable lessons.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are just a few potentially lifesaving research projects that students have undertaken in recent years at universities in New York and Maryland. That’s noteworthy because students usually have to wait until later in their college experience – even graduate school – to start doing serious research. A closer look.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

For that reason, I am excited that this coming week the White House is set to shine a deserved light on one domain where the benefits of abundant access to powerful technology tools are most clear: citizen science. Bitcoin and the dozens of other ‘altcoin’ variations) and the blockchain technology on which cryptocurrency relies.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

If you’ve ever found yourself in Baltimore and walked into Katie Dell’s classroom, you would see students personalizing their learning experience by choosing from an array of activities that are designed to help them work toward their learning goals. Demonstrate your Powerful Learning skills by earning Micro-credentials.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

My point is, gaming can mean different things to different people based on their previous experience. Specifically, serious games, whose main goal is not to entertain, but to help boost learning, promote healthy behaviors, and even improve mental health. Some people will think of their childhood. Even so, I get it.

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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 ?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Here’s a great overview from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor of what one of those fields–working with the powerful algorithms that drive search and research–is about: What are search engine algorithms? Of course, this is an incredibly broad topic. This will help when Google in formulating the SERP for the user.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Pam Moran on episode 246 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. She also helps us understand the mistake we make when we look too big picture and forget the small things we can do.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In the school setting, coaches provide one-on-one support to help teachers tackle classroom challenges and identify strategies that best support their practices as well as student achievement. During the first two years of the Dynamic Learning Project, nearly all coached teachers—94 percent—participated willingly.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

Katrise Perera is a self-proclaimed life-long learner with nearly 25 years of service to learning communities and almost 19 in an education leadership capacity. She is an innovative and visionary public education leader in a progressively global and ever-changing learning environment.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

As a team we started a learning journey that continues today. The school has developed considerably since its inception and our current teaching staff, as well as our student body, continue to guide the school through improvements in course development and the implementation and delivery of our program.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The psychology professor at UT Austin has also become a popular voice working to translate research from the lab into advice for a general audience. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today magazine, and co-hosts a podcast through Austin’s NPR station called Two Guys on Your Head. You can split an atom; you can't split a person.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

With efforts like Rhode Island School of Design’s championing of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, the arts remain at the forefront of dialogue about best practices in elementary education). This kind of model lightly exposes children to the arts and attends to learning about the arts. Why Arts-based Teaching?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

Episode 138 on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. From Project based learning, global projects and steam to the biggest heartbreaks of second-grade teachers, Carol shares it all. Even if you don’t teach second grade, you’ll learn a lot.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Of course, not all screen time is created equal. Context matters, especially when it comes to classroom learning. Instead of focusing only on screen time, this article will cover how teachers and students can use devices and consume media in more deliberate and mindful ways -- what Common Sense calls "media balance.

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PlagiarismCheck

OCTOBER 18, 2023

You can never go back and own what you write. You can raise expectations that you can’t meet. You might someday need a security clearance, and guess what can crop up long after you’ve forgotten about it. Deep knowledge is a lot different than some knowledge that can be parroted back because one stole it.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). Tom Callahan, Director of the Merck-Horton Center for Teaching and Learning, and educator at St. Autonomy in Learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). Quick Notes.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Some have research, grant writing, and publication responsibilities in addition to teaching their courses. Some teach five or six courses per semester. Simon , 1986). We need each other.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I can feel the beauty flowing all around you,” Maria Bot says. My mission is to help teachers and students become more intelligent and respectful of each other.” Thanks to artificial intelligence, Maria Bot can speak for herself. It’s not totally clear which answers are canned instead of improvised.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We want computer science students and faculty to experience Google Cloud Platform and learn what’s possible when you apply cloud computing to tough problems, just like we do at Google,” says Bram Bout, director of Google for Education. Google breaking in? . For the time being, Microsoft Azure’s.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 1, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lydia Gonzalez, author of “Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education,” talks about the societal norms that make it acceptable to be “bad at math” and how these beliefs can be detrimental to learning.

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

I don't maintain the learning management system or the library management software. I don't help faculty move their courses online. I'm not even confident I can share my screen or my slides in Zoom correctly. No one ever hires me to say "everything's going to be okay,” of course. I don't teach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

More and more schools and organizations are wanting to integrate video as a professional learning tool for teachers. At Edthena , a video coaching and professional learning platform, we work with many organizations working with video for the first time. But once you’ve got the recording device, what do you do?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this second post you will discover how careful examination of the nouns in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is a conference for librarians, instructional designers and educators to share their work and challenges, as well as for those who believe in the value of integrating instructional design into their practice to help them innovate and evolve library services for the future.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have often wondered what John Dewey would do in today’s educational setting with our vast amount of knowledge from research and our rapid growth of technology. First, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans . Join me, the Institute of Play, and PBS Learning Media.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This piece was written for The White House Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, which took place on Oct. It was originally published on Bror Saxberg’s blog and is reprinted with permission. Our learning environments have to evolve continuously. Just as work is changing faster, we are living longer.

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