Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 3, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of tech ed professionals who work together to offer you tech tips, advice, pedagogic discussion, lesson plans, and anything else we can think of to help you integrate tech into your classroom. Reviews of books, apps, web tools, websites, tech ed products used in your classroom.

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Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Whether you share Google Docs in Google Classroom, add them to a Hāpara Workspace or include them on your class website, Docs can be interactive and personalized. Instead, you can share a Google Doc with several learners in a group and they can all access it online and work on it simultaneously.

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Class Tech Integrate

JULY 18, 2016

As the beginning of a new school year approaches, teachers begin to think about introducing the norms & rules of their classroom to a new group of students. Included in these classroom behaviors, are the expectations for technology usage. Google Classroom and other LMSs naturally lead to those opportunities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the second of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting. Read the first article here. Generative AI is incredibly exciting but also opens the door to new questions about ethics and responsibility in the digital age.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

I recently sat down with Kelly Mendoza, Senior Director of Education Programs at Common Sense Education, who oversees digital citizenship curricular materials to discuss exciting curriculu m news. The updated, ready-to-teach digital citizenship lessons address realistic challenges and dilemmas faced by today’s students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech Survival Kits put everything a teacher needs to tech-ify their classroom into one package. This includes books, ebooks, articles, webinars, mentoring, and more.

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2022

When students are actively engaged in tasks that require them to use higher-level critical thinking skills and communication and collaboration activities, it helps promote deeper learning in the classroom and successfully prepares learners for college, career, and life. Flip the classroom. Incorporate inquiry-based projects.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the classroom A quick refresher This series of videos will give you a refresher on Hāpara tools or help you get acquainted with them if you’re new to Hāpara. Not only will it help you with classroom management going forward, but it will also motivate learners academically. We hope your 2024 school year is the best yet!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2018

I don’t post enough about high school so I’m thrilled with her article: Some students study more productively in groups, working with their peers. Online groups and forums allow them to ask questions and learn from each other outside the traditional classroom in a space where they typically turn to for studying anyway.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

Problems implementing Purpose Driven Learning Engaging PDL in your classroom is seen by some as teaching students what they want to learn at the expense of what they need to learn but this isn’t true. But they do provide a necessary foundation without which the goals of your particular group can’t be met. Parent buy-in.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2023

From the Ask a Tech Teacher crew, here’s a topical article on how to use AI in your education journey: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education Technological innovation is now casting its shadows over the education sector as well, making learning experiences better than ever before.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 10, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of tech ed professionals who work together to offer you tech tips, advice, pedagogic discussion, lesson plans, and anything else we can think of to help you integrate tech into your classroom. Reviews of books, apps, web tools, websites, tech ed products used in your classroom. Some free, most fee.

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Digital Citizenship How To Software Resources 187

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2017

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech Survival Kits put everything a teacher needs to tech-ify their classroom into one package. This includes books, ebooks, articles, webinars, mentoring, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. World Cat only includes libraries that have joined the World Cat group. Books are read online.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While acknowledging this progress, we must continue advocating for access until all districts and homes are connected since educational equity relies on infrastructure and digital access for all students at school and home. . Links can also be pushed out to specific learners or groups of learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2023

Check out this article from one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors addressing why tech+math are good partners and where that will go in the future: The Future of Math Education: Integrating Technology in the Classroom Introduction In today’s digital age, it is increasingly necessary to integrate technology into the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2022

If your class is like mine, students have a long list of passwords required for a wide variety of classroom tools. You may protect the file with a password, but that’s a topic for a different article. PDFs can group required resources. It’s that they aren’t inclusive enough. PDFs are easily printed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 1, 2024

In this article, we’ll talk about the common challenges we might run into as parents in fourth grade and share some down-to-earth tips on how to tackle them, making the journey smoother for both our kids and us. For us parents, it can feel like we’re navigating uncharted waters alongside them.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Whether you are a library media specialist, a teacher of social studies, art history, ELA or any other discipline that incorporates art and photography as a teaching tool or element of content, building living tableaux — people posing to replicate a 2D image — is a classroom exercise that has so many learning benefits for students!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech Survival Kits put everything a teacher needs to tech-ify their classroom into one package. This includes books, ebooks, articles, webinars, mentoring, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech Survival Kits put everything a teacher needs to tech-ify their classroom into one package. This includes books, ebooks, articles, webinars, mentoring, and more.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Welcome to the third article in a series devoted to facilitating proper student internet interaction in the classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1 or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. 10 Digital Citizenship Resources: The Web in the Classroom…Part 3 ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 15, 2021

Educators participate in this five-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop to learn about widely-available digital tools that will help their students develop their inner writer. Resources include videos, pedagogic articles, lesson plans, projects. need to differentiate for varied needs of their diverse student group.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

District Administration recently published an interesting article on how mindfulness creates kinder classrooms and reduces problematic behaviors by 18%. If you’d like background on Mindfulness, check our article published earlier on. reflect on an activity as a group. Music has long been accepted in classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2023

This article from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew is for new teachers searching for what will be required of them as teachers, how to determine their style, the importance of a mentor, and more secrets to guide them in their new profession: How to Choose Your Teaching Style and Level It takes a certain kind of person to be a teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2022

If you’re not familiar with Kiddom , you should be, especially in the changing environment of today’s classroom. It is easily personalized to the needs of a classroom meaning it saves teachers valuable time, resources and money, and simplifies technology for students who may be new to it or not quite comfortable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2023

These are private institutions offering language courses for various age groups and proficiency levels, with hiring typically ongoing throughout the year. Over nearly a decade, I taught a diverse range of students, spanning various backgrounds, age groups (from young learners to adults), and proficiency levels (from beginners to advanced).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2015

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech Survival Kits put everything a teacher needs to tech-ify their classroom into one package. This includes books, ebooks, articles, webinars, mentoring, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Here’s a great question I got from Paul: We are considering the appropriate role for Twitter in schools and as part of my research I read your article “ 13 Reasons to Use Twitter in the Classroom.” This is best for K-2 or older if it’s appropriate to your unique student groups.

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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 first section includes 25 educational tools that can help you plan online activities for your classroom. 25 Online Educational Activities for Classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. Classroom grade level teachers if your tech teacher doesn’t cover basic tech skills. 8 webinars. Who needs this.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 19, 2018

We often hear from educators who feel like they don't have the time to address digital citizenship in their classrooms. Sure, many schools find integrating digital citizenship as a stand-alone program within those classes works well and allows for clear and measurable implementation school-wide.

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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. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Digital Citizenship review. Group Discussion. Invite parents.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

There are many ways that this can be done, such as creating study groups on Facebook or Twitter, sharing relevant articles and books on these platforms, and posting online practice questions or interactive quizzes that students can complete to test their knowledge. –Image credit Deposit Photos.

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In an ISTE article , he clarifies that education is not something imposed on a learner in personalized learning. How do you implement personalized learning in the classroom? Yet making it work for large groups of learners in a school setting has been an ongoing challenge. It occurs as an outcome of what a student is doing.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 31, 2020

We arm them with digital awareness; critical thinking skills; clear, accurate information; communication and citizenship skills; and important values, such as respect, responsibility, and resilience. Read more: The 9 elements of Digital Citizenship your students need to know. Changing curriculums. The solution.

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