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MAY 26, 2022

If you use Google Classroom, here’s a list, created by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Scott Winstead: How to Clean Up Google Classroom for the Summer. In this article, I’ll share the four simple steps you can take to close up your Google Classroom for the year in a neat, organized fashion. Let’s get started!

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Graphite Blog

JULY 28, 2020

Digital citizenship will be more important than ever this fall as most students will return to school virtually, in one form or another. To address this, we've pulled together a collection of short digital citizenship activities that students can complete independently, or with parents or caregivers.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. I found this article wrenching to write. skip school.

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MAY 18, 2023

Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. The requirements guide discussions to ensure the article meets the standards for successful research.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area—at every grade level—should be the goal to meet this need.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Finally, the Gmail viewer functionality no longer meets the requirements of the Hāpara ethical monitoring policy. If you’re curious about how to use the updated features in the Hāpara Instructional Suite, consider taking one of our Learning Bytes courses. This policy emphasizes transparency and student privacy.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Of all topics on Ask a Tech Teacher, keyboarding articles are the most visited. We are taking 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 2 (this article). Week 1 ( click for prior lesson).

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JANUARY 10, 2023

You became a teacher not to pontificate to trusting minds, but to teach children how to succeed as adults. You had lesson plans to get through, standards to assess, meetings to attend, parents to council, and state-wide tests that students must do well on. Show students how to find answers to their questions. Here are 11 ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Simply put, adding rigor creates an environment where students are: expected to learn at high levels supported so they can learn at high levels cheered on as they demonstrate learning at high levels It helps students understand how to live life using brain power as the engine. Know what that means for each student. If it is, let them do it!

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Find connections to the norms and granular information that allows you to dynamically build lessons that meet unique goals. Understand what they are and how they achieve the intended learning goals. If you follow Understanding by Design (see my article on UbD ), this will quickly make sense. In-place curriculum.

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MAY 10, 2023

This article got lots of reads last year, so am republishing with updates. Students collaborated on work, sharing virtually, and then published digitally. That made the tech teacher (or whatever you call her in your school) the cornerstone to all things education, which brings me to the gist of this article: Teacher Appreciation Week.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Below is a short curation of the most useful articles, links, resources, and webinars to help you through this challenging environment: Online articles: Resources, tips and more for remote and e-learning (teaching online) — from Educational Technology Guy. A short curated list of resources for teaching online: How-to.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I’m reposting this article for my readers. I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. Parents love encouraging their kids to play with iPads and iPhones but it’s not their job to teach them how to do it right. How to Teach Mouse Skills to Pre-Keyboarders. They arrive with bad habits.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, has several ideas on how to make that more efficient: As a teacher, you’re fully aware of how much the world is advancing through technology. Undoubtedly, innovation has touched many aspects of how you teach. The site is best known for its articles. Twitter and Facebook.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. I found this article wrenching to write. skip school.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. I found this article wrenching to write. skip school.

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The education field has yet to agree on how to define it. One key objective of personalized learning, as well as for heutagogy , is engaged, proactive individuals who understand how to learn. In an ISTE article , he clarifies that education is not something imposed on a learner in personalized learning.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

To help the country close this digital divide, a goal of meeting or exceeding internet access at speeds of at least one megabit per second (Mbps) per student was set by the FCC. The number of K-12 school districts meeting this goal rose 25% due to efforts in the past year. Build autonomy, self-management and digital citizenship.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. How do you use it. 8 webinars. Who needs this.

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APRIL 12, 2019

I’m off to visit good efriend Norah Colvin over at ReadiLearn to discuss how important technology is even for kindergartners. If you’ve ever wondered about that, come check out my short article on this subject. I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. How to Teach Mouse Skills to Pre-Keyboarders.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 11, 2018

This article is part of Common Sense Education's Teacher Voices series, which provides a platform for diverse perspectives on teaching in the digital age. In the Alisal Union School District in Salinas, California, we aim to establish a whole-community approach to digital citizenship.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 11, 2018

"Teacher Voices": This article is part of a series of from-the-classroom perspectives. In the Alisal Union School District in Salinas, California, we aim to establish a whole-community approach to digital citizenship. "In Alisal, we work with an agricultural community.

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JUNE 10, 2020

COVID has changed how we address summer PD so I’ve collected the most popular AATT articles on how to spend your education time this summer. We talk about life-long learners (see my article on life-long learners ). This summer will be different than other summers. I came up with six.

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MAY 2, 2022

I posted this article last year, got lots of reads, so am republishing with some updates. I’ve included information about: How tech teachers are different than other teachers. How to talk to a tech teacher (hint: they’re a little different; heed these suggestions). Bone up on basics before the Meeting.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

The post How to “Fake” Blogging in the Classroom (FREE Template) – SULS0124 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. There is so much you can do at any level with this template, and it is a great way to talk about media, blogging, writing, digital citizenship, and more. Listen to this article. .

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MAY 3, 2021

Students collaborated on work, sharing virtually, and then published digitally. That made the tech teacher (or whatever you call her in your school) the cornerstone to all things education, which brings me to the gist of this article: Teacher Appreciation Week. Bone up on basics before the Meeting.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Johnson (2013), a PLN is: “a self-created set of experts, colleagues, and resources…that meet one’s daily learning needs.”. You may never meet them in person, though you likely collaborate through Google Hangouts, Skypes, or pre-arranged TweetUps. If they don’t know how, they’ll have a friend who does.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. How do you use it. 8 webinars. Who needs this.

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JUNE 8, 2018

In summer, we can meet students where they want to learn with topics they like by offering a menu of ungraded activities that are self-paced, exciting, energizing, and nothing like school learning. We talk about life-long learners (see my article on life-long learners ). Here are favorites that my students love: Read more on TeachHUB.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

In fact, at unplugged summer camps across the United States and the world, students are also learning to be better digital citizens. This may seem surprising, but citizenship isn’t solely about knowing how to use technology. One crucial element of digital citizenship is respectful communication.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

This is just one example of the many articles that warn us of the latest shocking discoveries about the dangers of technology. This type of data can help educators, parents, or policy makers better understand how students interact with technology, particularly how to create a healthy relationship with it.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

In this bundle, you get 20 tech ed resources on how to use technology to achieve Common Core Standards–presented in a variety of ways including Lesson plans, webinars, and short but pithy articles. 7 Hall of Fame articles addressing Common Core topics. How do you use it. 8 webinars. Who needs this.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

If you missed this article over at ReadiLearn , here are my thoughts about teaching technology in kindergarten: Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology. I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week.

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APRIL 12, 2021

This is a how-to article from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor describing clever ways to make remote teaching work. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

A note: The links won’t work until the articles publish! For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, meetings, classes, collaborations with their grade-level team, parent meetings, and thinking. Start with the most-visited articles and work your way down (in case you run out of time).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

This includes how-to videos, lesson reviews, homework help, whiteboard explanations of math or science, and anything required for a flipped classroom. Here are some ideas: backchannel devices to show student understanding during a lesson–like Socrative and Today’s Meet. Options include Office 365 and LucidPress.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

million visitors to the 2,112 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. I’m not sure how to adjust for that… Top Ten Misses. How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Class. The Important Morning Meeting.

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