Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields. How to Teach Students to Solve Problems. Math Books for Elementary Grades. Lesson plans about math and tech: How to Achieve Common Core with Tech: the Math Strand. How to Use Khan Academy (free lesson plan). Celebrate Pi With Your Students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2022

I posted this article from Catherine Ross, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, a year ago and it’s worth repeating. She has great suggestions on how to celebrate with children and students in a way that shows how to be responsible stewards for the only planet we have. World Environment Day is June 5th.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We are taking the next two weeks–two articles–to answer the questions that should help you as a teacher or administrator decide what type of keyboarding program is best for your school. Week 1 (this article). How important is teacher knowledge of teaching keyboarding? Is elementary school too early—or too late?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

10MT #21 | 10-Minute Teacher Interview with Todd Nesloney From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How to deal with failure. Blog www.toddnesloney.com. Todd Nesloney serving lunch was mentioned in my article – 5 Ways to Bring Out the Best of Everybody in Your School – [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! I'm collecting blogs of teachers who are in the classroom actually use AI and have practical, real examples to share. The human intelligence part is so important!) Got links for those teachers? Enough of the junk.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools. Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. Or is it big picture, such as learning how to collaborate more effectively with others? jena.passut_7651.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 31, 2023

Today's blog entry is a combination of things related to role-playing games. There's also some upcoming adventures on the KyEdRPG front: Tonight (3/31) at 630 pm EST on KET's Kentucky Edition , I was interviewed for a segment discussing how role-playing games positively impact education. David, welcome to Edtech Elixirs!

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

In a series of blogs, I’ll be exploring each thinking routine and providing suggestions for how teachers across grade levels can harness the power of these thinking routines with students. Using See, Think, Wonder at the Elementary Level Science Exploration: Use this routine during nature walks or while exploring the schoolyard.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “I used to think…Now, I think…” routine. This evidence can be drawn from various sources, such as research articles, data sets, personal observations, or historical examples.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality (AR) programming app for classrooms. This blog post is sponsored by Metaverse. I like to use Kanban Boards and Agile Software Development principles (something outside the scope of this article).

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Heidi Sloan on episode 258 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Iditarod Teacher: How to Connect and Learn from the Iditarod Race. There are a lot of articles that the mushers write at the EDU of Iditarod does. You can have your kids read the articles.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

Classrooms using Microsoft Teams can peruse Microsoft’s accessibility blog , which outlines best practices for using the education suite to make lesson plans more inclusive. . Teachers can also find tips online, such as CDW•G K–12 Education Strategist David Andrade’s blog, “ Educational Technology Guy.”. by Jennifer Brown.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

How to build a PLN. Now that you’re convinced you need a PLN, how do you build one? Here are twelve ideas: have a professional blog. reach out to others in your field who have professional blogs. You’ll see me do that often in my blogs, though I haven’t always done so. Post to it regularly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

In an earlier article , I focused on preparation for the essay portion of the SAT. USATestprep is standards-aligned teacher-directed test preparation for elementary through high school. Some will take it for the first time; some for the umpteenth time. To date, there are over 500 free study resources that cover SAT prep. USATest prep.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. . MORE FROM EDTECH: How to keep accessibility in mind for the modern K–12 classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and lead developer of RULER , a systemic, evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning reflects on where students are now and how to reach them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Episode 365 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How can we simply help them understand using examples and research (because we know lecture doesn’t work so well on this topic.) I wrote about these in Reinventing Writing and in other articles.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 31, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. ChatGPT can summarize thousands of words in seconds and can be used to summarize long texts such as news articles, academic papers, and even short books.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Project-based learning , as we have often examined in this blog, is a powerful way to not only impart information, by exploration, but has the added advantage of stimulating and developing a range of other skills and habits such as communication, creativity, curiosity, confidence and collaboration. appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

The LVP team recently partnered with ReadWorks , a nonprofit literacy organization that provides free resources, including a library of curated nonfiction and literary articles, to K-12 teachers. While further research is needed to determine how features such as these affect learning, our findings shed a promising light.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Bill Morgan through a shared interest in keyboarding for youngers (see this article on A Conversation About Keyboarding and this article on Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach ). When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). It can be very helpful for anyone who has a difficult time in social situations, is nervous about making friends, is conflicted about how to handle a particular situation. How can it help you learn better? Create a newscast. Make a joke.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 12, 2023

I’ve discussed offering electives to my gifted elementary students. Note: This blog post will be updated with recordings of their shadow puppet shows once completed. My group of 2nd/3rd graders chose space. They then selected planets to learn and research about. Standards Addressed Next Generation Science Standards ETS1.C:

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Michael Rousell, PhD talks about his research into life change From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Have you ever had a moment when your life changed? Learn how to share comments in a way that can transform how a child views him or herself. Michael Rousell, Ph.D.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 22, 2020

They are described in more detail in the Edutopia article, Educators Turn to Bitmoji to Build Community and Engagement. To learn how to create bitmojis for your learners, see this post by Matt Miller, [link]. I start all my classes, both elementary school and college classes, with an emotional check in. Fake Instagram Account.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to communicate with parents. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

But technology can be an incredibly useful educational tool for students of all ages, even young elementary-level learners. This article will look at the importance of having access to technology today and the top tech tools every student should have whether they are learning at home or in the classroom. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jillian DuBois talks about her end of the school year and from the conversation we have twelve inspiring ideas for classrooms everywhere including: How to Use the element of surprise in learning. How Eagles Fly Higher on Turbulent Winds. So much so.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

This article originally appeared on The Advocate from the Computer Science Teachers Association. Code.org has created a great compilation of resources for how students can continue learning. Read a book, blog, or magazine. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. Start a club.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

Eric Curts from Ctrl Alt Achieve From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Eric Curts @ ericcurts teaches us twenty-three ways to use Gsuite tools in our classroom. This blog post is being added to 100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators. But that’s a fun thing.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

Below are some simple strategies that can be used to integrate reflection into any lesson: Writing - A daily journal, blog, and LMS (i.e., During a coaching visit I observed Zaina Hussein , a 4th-grade teacher at Wells Elementary , use this with her students (see image below). It can also be used as a form of closure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2020

From our files, here are great articles about activities popular at the end of the school year: 5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year. How to Use Tech to Help Graduating Students Find Jobs. As a teacher, you’re fully aware of how much the world is advancing through technology. Class Debate. Digital Citizenship review.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Years ago when I discussed strategy with a Disney Cruise leader, they told me that people tend to remember how an experience starts and how it ends. Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Genius hour and passion projects are transformational. Whether you’re already having genius hour at your school or you want to get started, this blog post will give you ideas for getting started with genius hour, no matter the age or grade.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 18, 2020

One notable challenge facing educators during Remote Learning is how to teach reading and literacy from a distance. The art of teaching reading involves a creative mindset when addressing the pedagogical “how” to deliver reading instruction from a distance. Florida elementary educator Ms.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Jackie actively blogs at [link] and tweets at [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

Laura Dennis on episode 317 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn more about how Laura’s classroom has become more modern and simplified with these valuable tools. See Hyperdocs: How To’s and Tips for Teachers. How are you using Flipgrid with this?

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