Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

Topics attendees will learn by doing include: Blogging—to reflect, collaborate with classmates, share perspectives during class, complete assessments in some cases. Digital portfolios—via wikis. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

Sessions were run like a flipped classroom where attendees accessed daily topics, read/watched materials, tested their knowledge, and experimented with projects. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups. How to embed materials into digital portfolios. TweetUps worked best with larger groups.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Here are my takeaways as moderator of this amazing group: They are risk takers. Failed and tried again. Asked questions. The class awarded a Certificate based on effort, not end product. They were curious.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With the not-so-recent addition of audio and video files (easily embedded from sites like Instagram and Periscope ), educators can easily use it as a student-friendly approach to everything from assessment to sharing notes. Before unpacking Twitter in your classroom, here are a few guidelines: Clear its use with your administration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

Topics attendees will learn by doing include: Blogging—to reflect, collaborate with classmates, share perspectives during class, complete assessments in some cases. Digital portfolios—via wikis. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’. I think that’s a large underserved group of teachers.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

I belong to several Tech Teacher forums, FB groups, G+ Communities, and every day I find more great tools I can’t wait to use in my classroom. Stay tuned… Admittedly, it isn’t built for classrooms, but with Songza’s Concierge service, you can create a personalized playlist of music that fits your student group.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning.

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Edmodo Classroom Learning Gamification 200

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In groups, they work together to come up with a list of questions they can ask the hero they have chosen. Products: Research Notes, Journal, Class list, Group questions, Individual paper, Persuasive paper. It could start in small groups and go out to the entire class. Students are great at digital collaboration!

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Classroom LMS Poll Everywhere Learning 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Here are the top 22 digital tools your colleagues are using in their classrooms: annotation tool. digital devices. digital note-taking. digital portfolios. flipped classroom. Digital Note-taking. Flipped Classroom. backchannel devices. class calendar. class Internet start page.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

As the 21st century learning movement expands internationally, we’re seeing an abundance of frameworks, assessments, and semantic labels as different organizations put their spin on what’s worth knowing. Wondering how to teach and assess 21st century competencies? Book group discussions can jumpstart conversations among colleagues.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. I also see a need to provide students appropriate lessons on proper digital citizenship. Thanks for joining me on this wonderful journey of connection possibilities for the classroom!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

It alleviates boredom in the bits of free time that pop up between soccer and dinner and it can be done alone or in a group. I have three apps that can move your children/students into the ‘I love reading’ group. I love that I can offer unique word lists that are easily accessed, studied, and assessed in a fun gamified way.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

This is a tool that can be part feedback, part game, and part group brainstorming. In this process, teacher and students are able to view the entire groups thinking process in relationship to the reading and their understanding. It really has the ability to bring group thinking and collaboration to a whole new level.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The Christensen Institute clarifies that “the Rotation model includes four sub-models: Station Rotation, Lab Rotation, Flipped Classroom, and Individual Rotation.” In short, differentiation is the process of personalizing universal learning goals for groups of students. Digital Citizenship. ” (3).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Vote and possibly win $4000 of technology from CDW – I recently supplied CDW a list of products that I thought would be great for a Podcasting/Webinar Production/Flip Classroom Studio. Perhaps students determine the audience they wish to address, bringing about even deeper thought of how to deliver to that specific group.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Please join the volunteer group and sign up for times that you''re able to help. In addition, panelists will share ways they reach out to the parent community to share concepts of digital citizenship and to empower parents to become partners in the process of educating our students. Saturday, May 3rd at 12pm Classroom 2.0

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