Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 24, 2017

K-6 math curriculum (with a separate program for pre-K) is versatile, easy-to-use, and nicely differentiated for varied learning and teaching strategies. Its unique system of scaffolding lesson-to-lesson and circling back on important concepts not only reinforces learning but enhances student higher order thinking skills.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Video Resources 208

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As educators, one of our primary goals is to make learning as effective and engaging as possible. To achieve this, understanding the foundational knowledge that students bring into our classrooms is crucial. But what exactly is prior knowledge, and why is it so essential in the learning process?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. If you have an LMS you love, Google Classroom often won’t work well with it because it isn’t well-aligned with industry standards. Students can find and share assignments, receive feedback, and collaborate digitally.

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Moodle Google Classroom LMS 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

Digs deeper into digital tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network.

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Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 173

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. How many answers students got right told the teacher how much they knew. These can be used formatively or summatively and can be created by teachers or students-as-teachers.

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Assessment Learning Digital Citizenship Guidelines 178

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Type Dojo is a new free comprehensive approach to learning keyboarding. It’s easy to get started and just as easy to use making it the perfect tool for busy teachers and students who have lots to do besides keyboarding. It has tons of wordlists for many subjects so students learn while practicing keyboarding.

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Digital Citizenship Smartphone Study Android 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 7, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach K-8 math skills that are tied to many national standards (like Common Core). Students direct their learning with an avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged. Analytics track and evaluate progress. Things I like.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Game-Based Learning Android 157

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? They mistakenly conflate these exemplars with learning. According to Tomlinson and McTighe , standards-based grading (SBG) “measures student proficiency on well-defined course objectives.”

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Khan Academy Common Core Digital Citizenship LMS 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

What you want for these last few weeks are activities that keep the learning going but in a different way. You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Class Debate.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship eBook Groups 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests? Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. These shouldn’t be more of the same work they are failing it.

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Common Core Strategy Digital Citizenship Survey 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When students — and adults — think of learning to keyboard, it usually generates images of rote drills where you sweat over a keyboard as you’re graded on speed and accuracy. The feedback I often get on these sorts of sites is that students do improve speed and accuracy but only on the site. Rote drills.

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Exercises Digital Citizenship Blended Learning Report 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

What you want for these last few weeks are activities that keep the learning going, but in a different way. You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship eBook Groups 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

What you want for these last few weeks are activities that keep the learning going, but in a different way. You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship eBook Groups 150

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. What can students do in Seesaw?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Mobile apps have made it super easy for kids to learn in fun and engaging ways, anywhere anytime. There are tons of learning apps for kids out there and the choices can sometimes be confusing. However, one of the effective ways to select a learning app for your kids is by considering their learning interests and needs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. Service Learning. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. Have students break into two-four-person teams. Write an ebook.

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Khan Academy eBook Common Core Exercises 174

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 25, 2018

Jonathan Thomas-Palmer on episode 298 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students start with a zero and level up as they use videos, one on one help, and game-based mastery to master physics. What is asynchronous, flipped, gameful, mastery learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. thinking on their feet—if evidence is refuted, students must ‘get back into game’.

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Khan Academy eBook Exercises Common Core 153

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

I hope that New America emerges stronger for the lessons learned from this incident. I’d hazard that most anyone who has worked in the education and technology arena for any length of time has had to navigate conflict of interest issues. No matter where truth lies, the apparent conflict of interest is significant and undeniable.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

More important—how do they make sure students are succeeding with this new plan? During an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate , Eric Butash, Director of Education Technology and Data Integration for the district, discussed how they used data analytics to build their personalized student learning pathways.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

I know you will find these over 45 links valuable as you facilitate your students in both designing, innovating, and building. The facilitator of the blog is employed by the New Technology Network of Schools. This blog really does attempt to use all of the preceding ideas, plus more! Check it out if you have not had a chance!

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

I hope that New America emerges stronger for the lessons learned from this incident. I’d hazard that most anyone who has worked in the education and technology arena for any length of time has had to navigate conflict of interest issues. No matter where truth lies, the apparent conflict of interest is significant and undeniable.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

The industrial education model was massively successful, with high school graduation rates and student achievement increasing decade after decade. Devin Vodicka, Chief Impact Officer at AltSchool, in a recent edWebinar , reform after reform and many well-intended efforts have tried to reach the aspiration of all students being successful.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Mention edtech, and the first thought that usually comes to mind is collecting data to evaluate students’ progress. By asking three key questions, leaders can get a better sense of their K-12 edtech ecosystem. Thus, while a school may think it has 20 official edtech tools in the classroom, the unofficial list could be over 200.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

Explore Tyto Online. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. To this end, Tyto offers some inventive quests that have students doing things like creating claim statements meant to persuade others alongside more open-ended creative sandboxes. Check them out below.

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Assessment Robotics Digital Citizenship Tools 46

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

The goal is that students type well enough that it doesn’t disrupt their thinking. Let me say that again: The goal of keyboarding is students type well enough that it doesn’t disrupt their thinking. For students in school, ‘speed of thought’ refers to how fast they develop ideas that will be recorded.

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Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship Examples 352

Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

Explore Tyto Online. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. To this end, Tyto offers some inventive quests that have students doing things like creating claim statements meant to persuade others alongside more open-ended creative sandboxes. Check them out below.

Assessment 40

Assessment Robotics Tools Digital Citizenship 40

Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

Explore Tyto Online. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. To this end, Tyto offers some inventive quests that have students doing things like creating claim statements meant to persuade others alongside more open-ended creative sandboxes. Check them out below.

Assessment 40

Assessment Robotics Tools Digital Citizenship 40

techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

MORE BETTER WRITING Third Grade Students at Milton Public Schools use FlipGrid to record book reviews. They’re reading student work that’s more thoughtful, properly revised, and well researched, and they’re able to give efficient, effective feedback to each student. Teachers are happier. Trees are happier.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

The students cradled clipboards with a worksheet as they moved from spot to spot, writing out mathematical expressions such as: 5+5+5 = 15 and 3+3+3+3+3=15, to convince themselves that three fives is the same as five threes. But three of the students were seated on the carpet in the middle of the room. A lot is at stake.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

Learn more about my books, printables, and online courses here. Why I’ve never seen stepping away from work as a weakness. I had trouble getting out of bed, and doing any kind of work required herculean levels of focus and energy. Subscribe in your podcast app, or download the MP3 here and listen on the go! And I did. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2017

A Learning Management System (what is often called an LMS) has become foundational to blending technology into education experiences. Moodle got its start years ago as a method to organize blended learning and online classes. Add free plugins of your choice provided by a robust online community. adding assignments.

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Moodle LMS Wiki Training 178

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Like so many others , I’ve made new friends and learned so very much, but I’m not sure what the future may hold. Technology Used to Track Players’ Steps Now Charts Their Sleep, Too | The New York Times → Wearable technology has burrowed into college football this season as never before.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Like so many others , I’ve made new friends and learned so very much, but I’m not sure what the future may hold. Technology Used to Track Players’ Steps Now Charts Their Sleep, Too | The New York Times → Wearable technology has burrowed into college football this season as never before.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

I find myself back at work refreshed and with some new ideas. I’d encourage those interested in the OER movement to subscribe to the bi-weekly OER Digest (a joint project of SPARC and the Student PIRGs ) to stay up to date. new additions to the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. What then of the students?

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

I find myself back at work refreshed and with some new ideas. I’d encourage those interested in the OER movement to subscribe to the bi-weekly OER Digest (a joint project of SPARC and the Student PIRGs ) to stay up to date. new additions to the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. What then of the students?

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

23, education policy and technology consultant Doug Levin tallied the one-thousandth incident on the K-12 Cyber Incident Map , his solo project that tracks publicly disclosed reports of phishing, ransomware and other unsavory digital attacks on U.S. EdSurge: What led you to start tracking these incidents? schools and districts.

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