Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Educational Games Capitalize on Interest-Based Learning. Joe McAllister is a learning environment advisor at CDW•G. For example, esports are even considered on par with traditional competitive sports in some schools. . by Joe McAllister.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2019

Keeping up with national and international events was a lot easier when all the news came from one of three major TV news outlets and a few newspapers like The New York Times. What is fake news? Why Fake News? Start by explaining to students why fake news is so popular. There are no such laws in news media.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

Kids aged 8–18 years old are in front of screens for seven hours every day on average, CBS News reports. With 95 percent of teenagers in possession of mobile devices, students are constantly sharing and searching through social media platforms. . Students Learn Best from Each Other. Teach Students to Be Safe, Be Smart, Be Kind.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Ask the average high school administrator about their biggest worries, and it’s likely they’ll cite serious concerns about learning loss during the Covid-19 pandemic. In their own words: “I’ve been learning the same things I have always learned. Nothing new, nothing exciting.” “We They find school boring.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This year’s top topics shifted more from 2023 to 2024 than they have in any of the past five cycles of the project, underscoring a turning point in education and emphasizing the need for collaborative efforts. Changing Attitudes Toward Demonstrating Learning. Ensuring Cybersecurity & Safety Online. Learner Agency.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

New York – Let’s Learn, The WNET Group’s instructional learning series for children ages 3 to 7, has launched new episodes on public television stations nationwide (check local listings) and letslearn.org. Let’s Learn has also launched a new website, making it easy to stream all episodes on any device at any time.

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Waterford

MARCH 16, 2021

Luckily, there are plenty of Internet resources available at your fingertips—with options for both synchronous and asynchronous learning-based classrooms. The second section features 25 team-building and social-emotional group activities your students can complete from home. 25 Online Educational Activities for Classrooms.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The 2023 eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards honors educators for their exemplary use of innovative edtech to support student learning. Topics range from immigration to kids without fathers. Interviewed and profiled here is winner John Arthur , a 6th grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School nominated by Follett.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As an educator, one of the most annoying things you can hear a student say is, “This is stupid,” or, “Why are we learning this?”. Understanding and identifying constructive ways to deal with that frustration and helping students interact with one another respectfully are among the guiding goals behind social emotional learning, or SEL.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

We believe there will be a time in the near future when the skills students learn today are the same ones they will be using in their future careers. As we allow students to explore careers through application, we also can help them explore and develop their non-cognitive skills — their emotional intelligence (EI).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2023

BOSTON — The six toddlers in the “Bears” classroom at the Ellis Early Learning center were hard at play when, suddenly, a tower of large, brightly-colored plastic blocks crashed to the ground. Biting — and the big emotions that cause it — are commonplace in toddler classrooms. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift “Look, he’s sad!”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s fascinating to see how different students interpret the same question, and you often end up learning as much from them as they do from you. From there, we shifted gears to more societal concerns in “Political and Social Philosophy,” examining concepts like leadership and civic participation. Can Machines Learn?

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Waterford

JUNE 23, 2020

While following local news, try to prepare for the most likely outcome while planning for alternatives just in case. Additionally, it may be worth looking into and preparing for “blended learning,” a classroom model which may lend itself more easily to a situation in which classes are held partially in-person and partially online.

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Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

Teachers are encouraged to promote collaboration in the classroom to achieve better learning outcomes. The consensus is that fostering student collaboration through group activities leads to more engaging and efficient learning. . However, collaborative learning is not about dividing students into groups and assigning tasks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2022

How do we accelerate learning? The US Department of Education Roadmap for Reopening Safely says that “accelerated learning provides opportunities for students to learn at grade level rather than through tracking or remediation….” Simply put, acceleration “builds on what students know as a way to access new learning.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Every week brings about another hatefully charged social media post or classroom exchange. They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too. It all begins with doing the internal, self-reflection work.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

The same survey found that 6 in 10 kids feel pressure to get good grades while nearly 3 in 10 feel pressure to look good and fit in socially. The education community is increasingly getting involved in these issues, looping in social workers, licensed therapists and other mental-health services to help students who are struggling.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

And if so, how do we continue teaching and deriving the pleasure, learning, sympatico and intellectual development it promises? Having said that, literature does not feature prominently in these reading lists, with biographies, historical, sociological and economic topics dominating. By 2018 the NEA had much better news.

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! For this edition of the DE EdTech News Roundup, we’ll cover: Appreciating Teachers The "Tech" in EdTech Insights from Education Leaders Appreciating Teachers In case you missed it, May 8 – 12 was Teacher Appreciation Week! But EdTech is really two topics: education and technology.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 6, 2019

In this third post in our series on authentic learning with virtual exchange , HP Teaching Fellow Tiffany Correa shares how students used Skype to connect to a teacher in Bangladesh. I created one such Powerful Learning experience with my students through a mission project where they made personal connections with life in Bangladesh.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 22, 2024

Founding this work at Uplift in 2011, he established and supervised five large departments servicing 44 schools, including Counseling Services, Social Emotional Learning, Student Discipline and Restorative Practices, Prevention Programs, and Strategic Community Partnerships.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 13, 2020

We can have an influence on the negativity of the news and media we see, and that begins with educating ourselves on where the bias towards negative news comes from. You turn on the TV, open your laptop, or scroll through social media, and it appears that the world is constantly in a state of turmoil. Why is this? Why is this?

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

In reality, our fixation on bad news makes us overlook the fact that we need more evidence-based research before declaring phones a health hazard. At the same time, social media platforms can have a good or bad impact on mental health depending on how they are used. Learning about technology at home.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

How to Move From Digital Substitution to ‘Deeper Learning’. We asked Scott McLeod, associate professor of education leadership at the University of Colorado in Denver and the author of “Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning,” to share his thoughts. New Book Takes a Fresh Look at ‘How Humans Learn.’. Here’s How.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Why learn art in school? Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. To the researchers, that was good news. The researchers also detected an increase in students’ compassion for others, or emotional empathy, based on student surveys.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 10, 2018

For one school district, adopting an online mental and behavioral health system has been an effective tool to better help students in a rural community overcome barriers to learning, says Vivian Carter, innovation coordinator at Hazard Independent Schools in Eastern Kentucky. So, it’s a wonderful program. We had interventions.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

TechEd is a hot topic in education right now, but what we really need to be discussing is student led learning. Students leading other students in learning is one of the most amazing things you can see. The girls wrote a lesson that aligned with the standards the students were learning at the time.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

With our Civics in Digital Life lessons, you can help your students consider important topics that cut across news and media literacy, digital citizenship, social and emotional learning (SEL), and civics. This is a great way to get the conversation started with your students in a low-stakes, low-prep kind of way!

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2021

Over the past 16 months, young children have experienced learning setbacks and fewer social experiences, while their educators have endured degraded working conditions, stress from job uncertainty and mental health declines. Still others just didn’t see the value in remote learning for such a young child.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The key to successfully navigating this maelstrom of emotions is to start small, break the challenge down into achievable tasks, and begin with actions that will have the most impact. This five step to-do list can help educators engage in artificial intelligence and begin using it to positively impact both teaching and learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Mobile apps have made it super easy for kids to learn in fun and engaging ways, anywhere anytime. There are tons of learning apps for kids out there and the choices can sometimes be confusing. However, one of the effective ways to select a learning app for your kids is by considering their learning interests and needs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2019

[ Editor’s note : eSchool News is thrilled to partner with The Brzycki Group to help our audience navigate the growing body of work and best practices in student wellbeing and social-emotional learning (SEL). Life for most of us in today’s world takes a toll on our emotional, psychological, and physical wellbeing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The resulting closures serve to highlight the strain the pandemic has placed on schools, and how districts are dealing with calls to put more emphasis on mental health supports and social-emotional learning. The $25 million project includes lessons on topics like mindfulness, managing intense emotions and relaxation strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Many educators have questions, though, about how to measure social and emotional learning (SEL) topics like relationship skills and self-awareness, even when they believe such skills should be addressed. Related: New advances in measuring social-emotional learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. They are less about grading than measuring learning. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Students d evelop agency.

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