Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. They solve problems or cease to exist. My students hang my picture in the Teacher Hall of Fame every time I let them play Minecraft–which I do regularly. You’ll remember why you’re a teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The difficulties with engaging children in math learning grows each year. I have several articles coming up next week that discuss that issue (links won’t work until publication date): What is ‘Technical Math’ –December 10, 2021 (this article). Math Scores Drop Again –December 17, 2021.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Word problems for 2nd graders are the topic of our blog post today. Now, why are word problems such a big deal, you ask? Well, they’re like mini-stories where math is the hero, swooping in to solve everyday challenges. How many fish do they have in total?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Dan Meyer on episode 513 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today Dan Meyer @ddmeyer gives us tips and advice for helping kids who hate math learn to love it. From The 10 Minute Teacher Vault — As we finish season 5, we have been airing the most popular shows of all time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She writes articles for education journals and blogs. Stay tuned to learn about this amazing differentiation and intervention tool for kindergarten through fifth grade reading and math teachers. And where do we start?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Young children have many different ability levels with math concepts. Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, an expert on the topic, gives an overview of how to differentiate math instruction with younger students. . eSpark is free forever for teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

To students, knowing how to ‘compare and contrast’ sounds academic, not real world, but we teachers know most of life is choosing between options. The better adults are at this, the more they thrive. 4th grade Reading Standards–3). 4th grade Reading Standards–3).

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It seems that everyone agrees that innovation is the most important asset that we have to deal with present and future challenges. Researchers, policymakers and educators are touting the importance of creativity for our future in general and how we have to nurture this ability of our current students. Giving us a sense of purpose.

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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. We need to get practical, past the hype, and work to do that in this show. We need to get practical, past the hype, and work to do that in this show. Is it helpful?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. What's missing that we can add to the conversation? What's missing that we can add to the conversation? Is there anything of concern that we can stop?

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 12, 2024

” It was a typical math department meeting in which I decided to, once again, bring in something controversial out of sheer boredom. We spent the next 30 minutes arguing why this method works over a more consistently functional method like multiplying the reciprocal. Did we all come to agreement?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. With free financial literacy courses for high school and middle school, social-emotional learning, and digital literacy classes, today we highlight six ways you can help students learn real-world skills. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 18, 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! Here is the fifth part of our series:] EXAMPLE GENERATOR Why ChatGPT as an Example Generator? Check out our first tip here!

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The clock is ticking, my mind is blank, and the words on paper don’t make any sense. We can all empathize with the many students sitting through exams today. Passive or ineffective learning methods are a very underestimated problem in our schools. Think about it: when students revise for exams, what do they do?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If you have students in your school who do not have English as their primary language, this is a must-listen-to episode. (Or We can do this! We also create tutorials on our District YouTube Channel [link]. Readlee - Show Sponsor.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Has the math brand become toxic? That was the provocative question posed by Conrad Wolfram in a blog post earlier this summer. His critique, in a nutshell: math instruction has become too fixated on computation—solving for x , for example—and removed from real-world applications and data.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2021

However, when we look at the bigger picture of how our brains learn, we can better see the difference between these terms. Even more so when we look at them specifically in the context of learning mathematics. But what happens when a student comes across a problem that is unfamiliar to them? Learning By Doing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

There’s a reason why the brain uses 25% of the calories you eat: Thinking is hard work. Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons. Grades 3 and up.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That’s why today, we’ll be exploring the many benefits that video content can bring to an e-learning environment. Imagine how useful videos can be for teaching topics that require visual demonstrations, such as math formulas, practical procedures, biology presentations, or even art. Videos can make any topic clear.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, Jon Corippo talks about how we can transform teaching vocabulary with Quizziz: How Quizziz is different from Kahoot and Secretive. Listen Now.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 4, 2019

That is why having a more empathic mindset can make a real difference in someone’s life. We all have that one teacher that changed our lives. I still remember and apply what she taught me, and most of it has nothing to do with the subject itself. Empathic vs. punitive mindset. But what exactly is an empathic mindset?

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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

APRIL 9, 2018

Kim Thomas on episode 286 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She literally speaks math and has exciting things to do each day of the week for her students. Mathivating Kids to Get Excited About Math. So, Kim, you love math.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Episode 114 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Po-Shen Loh @ poshenloh , National Math Coach and Carnegie Mellon Professor gives us a refreshing take on teaching math. Staples has everything we need in stock all season long and ready to go for school.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2019

Oh, the dreaded question… “What other content do you cover?” asks the district curriculum director, or even worse, “Do you cover all of _ ?” Fill in the blank with a huge quantity of content, like all of K-5 math.). Sounds like a great program, but we need a broader solution.” [ end of call ]. Coverage!?!

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Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2019

We all have a fear monster. We humans all suffer from the superiority syndrome. We actually believe that we’re better and smarter than any other species on this planet and nothing can contradict us at the moment. But what if we create something that is better and smarter than us? I only have two of them. But they’re big.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We’ve been doing this project eight years now. The first time I saw the “tile” product that we now use to locate keys and phones, it was my student’s invention. This blog post is my answer.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2017

Connecting Words to Emotions. We worked with approximately 75 children across grade levels. We began our language study by talking with the students about the power of words, and the role they play in and outside of school. Following this, we discussed the pleasures associated with words. And they respond.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How do kids learn and remember? Since iTunes keeps only 295 of the 500 shows, we wanted to take some of the very best of the show this summer and re-share it with our growing community of remarkable educators. This topic is his summer research topic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 13, 2018

Stephanie Zeiger on episode 290 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In fact, the way scientists and engineers approach problems is very similar to how a computer scientist thinks. Scientists and engineers approach problems like programmers do.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 23, 2022

You’re watching for the first smile, first crawl, first word, first tooth, first bites of food, first step. As a teacher, we also look for signs of “normal” development. We look for kindergarteners that skip and play showing gross motor skills and controlled fine motor skills of handwriting grips. This is a good thing!

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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. The question on all our minds is: What can we do to accelerate the learning of our young scholars?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

More and more students are using AI (especially AI writing tools ) to help them with their learning and we can not stop them from doing that. But we can not accept that they turn in AI-generated essays and assignments. AI generated content is now everywhere online. The infamous ChatGPT is but the tip of the iceberg.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 14, 2017

Episode 126 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Amber Teaman @8amber8 , principal, shares something that happened at her school this year relating to wards day and what she and her team are doing about it. I had to pause, and I had to ask her, “OK.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A post sponsored by TeacherVision From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Truly, when many of us read about emotional intelligence many years ago, we started discussing social emotional learning. This blog post is sponsored by TeacherVision. All opinions are my own. 1997; Payton et al.,

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Gradelink

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By the time we step into the classroom as teachers, we are aware that each person has different capabilities and reveal the areas in which they excel through various means. Yet, we may often fall into this trap of judging students based on their classroom participation and grades alone. Do you plan to use AKA or ASAP?

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Neo LMS

JULY 16, 2019

It requires the students to be attentive as well as in attendance; it requires the students to be committed to the task and find some inherent value in what he or she is being asked to do. To understand engagement, we should have a look at its “evil twin”: disengagement. Here’s a story I don’t tell very often. Let me explain.

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