Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2022

At the time, I thought this was a novel approach to address the lack of technology for students. While already aware of the effects smartphones had on students’ attention, I tried to keep a balanced approach to using technology in my classroom. Seven years ago, I proposed a day without technology to the site administration.

Blended Learning 338

Blended Learning Social Media BYOD LMS 338

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. The fellowship is a two-year program of professional development designed to combat the teacher retention problem, primarily in low-income schools.

Social Media 78

Social Media STEM Secondary Examples 78

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. You can read more here in What Is A Socratic Seminar? This could be used before a lesson as a kind of front-loading or after a lesson as an informal assessment or reinforcement and review. See more on that at number 11 below.).

Strategy 145

Strategy Learning Groups Examples 145

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

I’ve seen this for decades in the ed tech space, commentators speaking or writing as if they’ve been the first to come across or reflect on a given technology or problem. A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. I also enjoyed the DeLillo passage.

Online Learning 123

Online Learning Learning Secondary Digital Divide 123

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Executive functioning skills are the foundation of academic success in college, but similar to ‘soft skills’ in the workplace, are often not explicitly taught in secondary education. It may be helpful to first do an executive functioning skill assessment with students to determine their current level of EF strengths and weaknesses.

Smartphone 90

Smartphone Facebook Secondary Assessment 90

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Also: What is a former consultant-turned-technology executive doing running one of the most-cited experiments in higher education?). Pulsipher: All of my background prior to WGU is mostly within the technology space. We think differently around how to utilize technology to advance outcomes and help the students progress.

Outcomes 78

Outcomes E-rate Accessibility Course 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The First Year In the first year of our virtual co-planning, we first wrote common assessments, then later common lesson plans and projects, before beginning video conferences to reflect on and edit our work. Each unit of study is centered on a common essential question in which we assess via a structured socratic method.

Analysis 60

Analysis Course Trends Assessment 60