article thumbnail

10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Twitter blasts to remind students of due dates. Try these ten tech uses. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar.

article thumbnail

Subscriber Special: More MLK

Ask a Tech Teacher

Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. assessment strategies. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). What’s included in each lesson plan: brief summary of the project. Essential Question.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Subscriber Special: 2 Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

Ask a Tech Teacher

Designed for grades 4-7, it’s aligned with Common Core and ISTE Standards. . Common Core and ISTE alignment. assessment strategies. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). What’s included in each lesson plan: brief summary of the project. Essential Question.

article thumbnail

How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

Ask a Tech Teacher

Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. Assessment of point of view and purpose to shape content and style. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used Common Core writing standards. Allow me to change that.

article thumbnail

9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. Use Twitter novels to teach writing skills. It teaches writing skills, perspective-taking, speaking and listening skills.

article thumbnail

Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why.

article thumbnail

Subscriber Special: September

Ask a Tech Teacher

Have students become familiar with approaches from traditional word processing tools to web-based tools like, Google Docs, Flipboard, Evernote/OneNote, and Twitter. . Twitter in the Classroom. Introduce the brevity of Twitter’s 140-character limit in writing. You don’t need to purchase both. You don’t need to purchase both.