Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. I made sure that there were only two assignments a week with the final assignment being a type of assessment. Feeling Overwhelmed.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

What does it mean to support students socially and emotionally in the online academic and social spaces where they exist? Our Digital Citizenship Curriculum has always been focused on the social and emotional lives of students within their digital spaces, but the connections to SEL competencies haven't always been clear.

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Mistakengoal.com

AUGUST 10, 2016

In this post I’ll discuss how we’re approaching the new outcome of “responsible use of the internet and other social media” that the faculty have added to the course. Demonstrate effective ways to responsibly use social media to positively engage with others and portray oneself with authenticity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2020

Problems include administering and grading assessments, taking attendance, finding backchannel tools that enable them to stay in touch with students, and keeping viewers engaged during video presentations. Completed forms are shared via a link, social media, or integrated into DropBox, Google Docs, and other popular platforms.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

School districts have already seen some of these tools enter the educational space, with innovations such as AI-enabled teaching assistant programs and advanced data collection and analysis to improve student assessments. Digital Twins: This concept is not new.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Digital literacy in education and the world is of paramount importance today, where technology permeates every aspect of our lives. It empowers individuals to navigate and critically assess the vast ocean of digital information. What are examples of digital literacy skills?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Teaching digital citizenship as a “one-off event” doesn’t lead to changes in behavior, experts say. When we teach digital citizenship as a one-off event like a presentation or an assembly, everybody gets all hyped up—and then it disappears over time,” he said. “But Managing an online identity.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

Kayla Delzer motivates us to relinquish control and empower students with three powerful examples. From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom. Student-led social media accounts. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Automatically transfer grades into any digital grade book. I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

Social media is an increasingly important part of students' lives; in fact, the average teen spends over an hour a day using social media. To be true digital citizens, our students need teachers who model pro-social, creative, and responsible social media use.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit). Formative assessment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This is particularly alarming because we live in an era when, according to Pew Research Center, 68 percent of American adults get their news from social media —platforms where opinion is often presented as fact. While Facebook and other social media outlets have pledged to tackle fake news , the results are lackluster.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Digital Citizenship. Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. The lesson is an even, stead pacing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Instead, they would rather stick their heads into their smartphones and stay glued to social media or texting their friends. The examples given above are not complete solutions. More on digital devices.

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Kyle Pace

APRIL 30, 2017

we’re giving kids access to, we must constantly be assessing where parents are at in terms of a foundational understanding of what this means for their child(ren). Is it solely a school district’s job to educate parents about technology, social media, digital citizenship, etc.? Of course not.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

It is a robust, intuitive tool that makes forms and surveys easy to create for teachers and a snap to join for students (for example, no login required — just a class code). Polls, forms, and surveys are great options when teachers need to create sign-up sheets, push out formative assessments, auto-grade quizzes, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s tempting to assign a goal–say, third graders should type 15 wpm–and then assess based on student ability to meet that goal, but that’s not practical. A more purpose-built goal is to assess based on progress. Some great examples of this are digital note-taking, PDF annotation, and grammar tools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Here are examples. A free site that lets you collect all the pieces of your experience into one nicely-formatted digital place. Here’s an example. Here’s an example. Here are examples. For example, if you’re a tech teacher, join ISTE. PorfolioGen. Join the LinkedIn professional community.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2017

First: Don’t roll out blogging in your classroom without educating students on digital citizenship — privacy, profiles, footprints, safety, fair use/copyrights. Another good resource is Common Sense Media. If you’re going to assess posts, consider these criteria: How responsive to the topic is it?

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Hapara

MARCH 13, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning environment offers students all kinds of options for research, class projects, collaboration, activities and assessments. There are numerous web filtering examples available for school districts to consider, but the web filters on the market don’t all work the same way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For example: Often, the solution to a problem is either. Tips are organized alphabetically by category, with the number of tips in parentheses after the category: Assessment (7). Social media (4). Category: ASSESSMENTS. reboot, restart …. close-reopen …. In many cases, more information is provided via weblink.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

Admittedly, in the current social media world, words are today’s doing. For example, many label recent politically-charged Supreme Court decisions as intolerant but when you dig into the facts behind it, you find closely-held beliefs on both sides to this story. Assume students are innocent until proven guilty.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

For example, take notes digitally rather than with paper and pencil. For example, notetaking may include audio and images as well as text. For example, students can share their notes and comments with each other creating a collaborative and energized learning environment. 2 Crash course. Free, web-based or DVD.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

We include books, blogs, and newsletters that cover a range of topics from social media and disinformation to Gamergate. As you think about how to continue helping students navigate their digital lives, these resources can enrich that work. Digital Citizenship in Action: Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

For example, most students have them but not all students. The most visible example of this was the Parkland School Shooting in February, 2019. Studies show that students spend 20% of their in-class time texting, emailing, and checking social media. Now, in 2019, that’s dropped to about a third.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I signed up for the French app as an example. It started by asking me to self-assess my language skills. While I found a lot to like about this set of education apps, it trampled on one of my pet peeves: Its social media accounts weren’t up to date. More educational apps: 3 Digital Tools to Encourage Close Reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

They can also be tools that are easily integrated into warm-ups, exit tickets, and/or formative assessments such as these popular examples: Socrative. Completed forms are shared via a link, social media, or integrated into DropBox, Google Docs, and other popular platforms. Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Poll Daddy.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This can be done digitally with an accessible slideshow or clear instructions for students to begin working straight away. 12 for an example. I would argue more paper is used with 1:1 environments, but believe it will change as more and more teachers learn to assess in the cloud. Usually someone in the class figures it out.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As with other education concepts – such as common assessments and standards-based grading –edtech can be practiced properly or it can be practice poorly. Mere substitution of digital for paper is an example of poorly practiced edtech. She is on social media @KerryHawk02 and her website is www.KerryHawk02.com.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 16, 2017

Everything presented in an organized grid – which makes it highly visual, easy to navigate, and assess. Each grid can have limitless topics – For example, name a grid “The Outsiders”, and have many topics or discussions within that one grid. These grids can be open or locked. Why I love FlipGrid: 1. Photo Source- flipgrid.com 2.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. I think we see examples sometimes of parents who are bullying, themselves.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Student privacy and school security are growing concerns in schools that can have consequences from negative media attention to losing parent and student trust. Defining and assessing levels of risk in the school is a crucial part of online security and privacy. For example: What do you want to protect?

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2012

About three years ago presenters started to notice a shift to more social media use by middle schoolers. Help kids leverage all of the resources available to them as they assess where they are and what they want. 2009 - Meeting of the Minds - important work from Common Sense Media on perceptions of social media ethics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 9, 2017

I honestly think it’s the proliferation of social media. It happened so quickly and we’ve had such a rapid transition away from print media that we haven’t had the time and the experience to really develop the skill set of analyzing media content. So for example, that the name is recognized.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 Venable Social Networking for Social Good with TakingITGlobal for Educators by Kate Gatto Social Networking for Teacher Education by Leigh A. in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link].

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 18, 2021

I present regionally on innovative practices in education, topics such as the flipped classroom or using social media to build relationships for families. Is this the time to reconsider the five-day-a-week model or assessments and standardized testing or the industrial model of education we’ve talked about breaking for years?

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Buncee

JANUARY 11, 2019

By adding in a variety of content and multimedia, Buncees can be used to foster creativity, develop critical thinking and digital citizenship skills, and engage students. You will see examples of Newsletters, reminders, and green screen backgrounds used in Andy's Class. Jennifer Hencken-Make Your Social Media Sparkle-2PM.

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