Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free to Ask a Tech Teacher subscribers: Summary This video discusses using student presentations to enhance speaking and listening skills, aligning with Common Core standards. Highlights Engaging Topic: Student presentations warm up students and foster excitement for learning.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

K–12 schools are No. 1, and not in a good way. Last year alone, the number of ransomware attacks on K–12 schools topped the number on secondary schools, hospital systems and governments. Other numbers schools may be considering come from Microsoft, which reports that “password-based attacks make up over 99% of the 600 million daily identity attacks” in the company’s own digital ecosystem.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Now, education can be found anywhere — teaming up with students in Kenya, Skyping with an author in Sweden, or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Panelists met to discuss some of the top challenges in education today and how technologies such as artificial intelligence can help K–12 teachers and students in a CDW Education webinar Oct. 8. The event, titled “Achieving Better Student Outcomes with AI and Interactive Solutions,” brought together leaders from educational technology partners including Merlyn Mind, Newline Interactive, GoGuardian and Acer.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 20, 2024

" Leadership clarity is the light that cuts through the fog of uncertainty, guiding others toward a clear and purposeful path." During my early years as a principal, I was literally flying by the seat of my pants. No one person or program can adequately prepare you for the realities of the job, as things are coming at you from every direction. While putting out fires comes with the territory, the real work lies in developing a learning culture prioritizing relationships and student outcomes.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The post Student Guest Post: Shifting our Mindsets about AI: Reframing AI as the Sidekick Rather than the Villain appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. Now, there is a vast landscape of resources available on the internet. But with wealth of options comes responsibility for their use. As soon as children begin to visit the online world, they need the knowledge to do that safely, securely, responsibly.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In an age of digital everything, long gone are the days of posters and corkboards in the hallway. Schools now have access to digital signage and mobile displays that can transform the way messages are sent and received, enabling K–12 leadership to send real-time communication for everyone in the building to see. These displays, which can be placed in classrooms, hallways and even stadiums, are multipurpose engagement and communication tools.

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The Jose Vilson

OCTOBER 17, 2024

During my sixth year of teaching, I asked the class to divide a five-digit number by a two-digit number. For middle schoolers, this felt like a straightforward task. I walked around the classroom to see how everyone was approaching their work. Suddenly, I stopped at one of the students’ desks and said, “Are you playing Hang Man in my class?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post 5 Engaging Ways to Celebrate Digital Citizenship Week appeared first on Digital Promise.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. They zipped through activities with rockets and robots, and Woods asked her goddaughter — named Sailor — what she thought of it all when they were heading home.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Google Street View Category: Problem-solving Q: I can’t find enough detail about a geographic area we’re studying.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Before William Pierce began his career in K–12 information technology, he was a classroom teacher for nearly a decade with Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky. He has multiple master’s degrees in education, and at one point he considered becoming a school principal. Today, Pierce is executive administrator of the same district’s IT3 program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Data is now everywhere in our lives, informing our decisions about which new show to watch, what path to take or whether to grab an umbrella. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn. Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Yet now more than ever, K-12 students need basic modern data science skills.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post Empowering Change at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy appeared first on Digital Promise.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teigue Linch recalls the email she got from Pine Forest, her daughters’ child care center in Burlington, Vermont, encouraging families to take advantage of the new state law that allows more people to qualify for child care assistance. But Linch, who works full time as an office manager for an engineering company, has twin 17-month-old toddlers, a long to-do list and the heavy mental load shared by all parents of young children.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher has a passel of online resources to help you introduce, teach, and reinforce digital citizenship to your students. Here’s our long list–and click here for updates if you arrive at this page late: Avatars Copyrights and Digital Laws Curriculum Applied Digital Skills –all tech skills Google’s Be Internet Awesome –abbreviated course K-8, scaffolded, Ask a Tech Teacher (with projects) Cyberbullying Cybersecurity Cyber Patriot program –by the Air Force DigCit–General

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security shared new resources to help keep students safe online this school year. DHS runs an awareness campaign called Know2Protect, whose goal is to help keep children and teens safe from online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). For the first time since the campaign’s launch in April, the agency has released materials for educators specifically.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

By Erin Bailey, Ed.D., Vice President of Literacy Programs and Research at Reading Is Fundamental Literacy as a cognitive skill (defined as word reading and language comprehension) has become a primary focus in education today and the development of these Keep Reading Home-to-School Connections for Early Learners The post Home-to-School Connections for Early Learners appeared first on American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This article originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: AI tools can benefit students, but student privacy must be protected Creating IEPs with GenAI while ensuring data privacy It’s not business, it’s personal: Building a culture of trust to protect data For more news on GenAI in schools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In recent years, school districts have shown increasing interest in the potential of Generative AI (GenAI) to revolutioniz

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When Gina Petersen graduated with her associate degree from Kirkwood Community College two years ago, she described it as “the biggest accomplishment I have ever done.” As a returning adult college student, she had struggled to fit her studies in part time, online, while working as a trainer for a tech company. She had gotten that job through connections, and she hoped that a college degree would be a big help if she ever needed to find a new job in the future.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Educator Meg Lee helped her district incorporate the best science of learning strategies. Here are her tips for starting the process in any classroom.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Key points: When learning is linked to career opportunities, student engagement increases i What data is necessary to help students succeed? 5 steps to boost CTE programs and fill workforce pipelines For more news on career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Fifty-nine percent of students say they would like more opportunities for career-connected learning, according to a new report from the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and Gallup.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close. In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in all of 2023, according to an analysis of federal data provided to The Hechinger Report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association or SHEEO.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2024

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld. Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2024

As more K–12 schools get caught in the crosshairs of cybercriminals determined to steal the mountains of valuable data that schools must protect, cyber resilience is more important than ever. Once a bad actor successfully breaches a school’s network, it can be stressful and frustrating to get back on track. However, it’s not all bad news. It is during these trying times that most K–12 IT teams get the very clear message that they are not alone.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

OCTOBER 17, 2024

New to using Google Sheets? Not sure if your classroom needs them? YOU DO! Get started here! The post 5 Steps to Starting Google Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

BOSTON/PRNewswire/ — Adaptive learning company HMH today announced HMH Classcraft’s AI Summarization tool, which allows teachers to quickly understand student comprehension and adapt instruction in the moment. This innovative tool, powered by generative AI, analyzes open text responses from students working in small groups or individually and provides educators with a quick and insightful summary of how the class is doing, followed by helpful feedback recommendations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Imagine sending your 4-year-old to preschool knowing they will spend nearly all day happily traipsing through the woods, climbing trees and resting in hammocks. Imagine that they also take part in what most of us would view as risky activities for a preschooler, like building fires and using knives to whittle figures out of sticks. For children growing up in Norway, this is a daily reality in the country’s “barnehagen”: child care programs designed for children ages 1 through 6.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The STORM AI tool can generate on-demand Wikipedia articles in minutes. It’s one of the most useful AI products I’ve come across.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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