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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. Even a decade ago, technology was an extra class in student schedules where now, it is a life skill. Kindergartners love technology. I’m reposting this article for my readers. They arrive with bad habits.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you teach technology, it’s likely you were thrown into it by your Admin. Now that’s you–the go-to person for tech problems, computer quirks, crashes and freezes, and tech tie-ins for classroom inquiry. Can you please-please-please fix my iPad? Use your iPhone as a timer for a speed test or the iPad for reading.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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. The underlying theme can’t be ignored by teachers any longer: A 21 st Century learner requires technologic proficiency.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: What is Digital Literacy?

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APRIL 19, 2023

Every Earth Day (April 22, 2023 this year–see our previous article on Earth Day Class Activities ) someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? Take a few weekends this summer to set up a class blog and class website and get comfortable with the digital side of your school.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Integrating presentations in teaching is an accessible way to bring technology to the classroom and make the best digital tools available. Digital tools for engaging classroom presentations. Here are eight digital tools to look for when creating the best presentations for your classroom: Google Slides.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Or, use Alt+Shift+M to open the File Manager.

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APRIL 30, 2021

Whiteboards have long been a de rigeur staple in classrooms, occupying pride-of-place at the front of the room. But one change has revolutionized their use: They can now be projected from your iPad. All that’s needed is an iPad, AirSketch, a class computer, and a class screen. Free to try. Free to try. Need more options?

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Teachers all over the world have embraced the use of coding and programming in their classrooms, adapting the online materials for various subjects that stretch beyond the borders of STEM. 6 Digital tools that help educators teach computational thinking. Kodable is available to download on iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) and desktops.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Lots of kids think technology is technical, another word for complicated/difficult/math-like. from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Morphi — for iPads, Mac, Windows. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Click image to enlarge if it’s blurry. Image Edited?

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AUGUST 21, 2019

If you missed this article over at ReadiLearn , here are my thoughts about teaching technology in kindergarten: Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology. When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. Kindergartners love technology.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: My desktop icons changed.

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APRIL 14, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Share it in the comments below.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Tech Tip #118–Top 10 iPad Shortkeys. 13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom. It’s Here–the High School Technology Curriculum! Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Tech Tip #9–Quickly Hide Your Screen. Two Tech Tips for Everyday Life. Tech Tip #105: Create Shortkeys for Windows Tools.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The Inquiry-based Classroom. Projects include T alking Pictures, Shape Stroll, Picture the Details, Brainstorming, Life Cycle Reports, Digital Citizenship, Venn Diagrams, Landforms, Cyberbullying, Tessellations, Twitter in Education, and more. Digital Portfolios. Digital Citizenship. The Socratic Method.

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MAY 15, 2023

Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. If you have a Chromebook or an iPad, don’t even worry about this. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Check to be sure yours is active.

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MARCH 7, 2023

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Share it in the comments below.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Each third week of November, students, families and community members focus on the importance of geography by hosting events; using lessons, games, and challenges in the classroom; and often meeting with policymakers and business leaders. Atlas –Barefoot World Atlas is an interactive 3D globe for iPad. BatchGeo—map locations.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Setting up your classroom. Favorite tools like iPads and Chromebooks change. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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JUNE 2, 2022

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License.

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JUNE 13, 2022

You probably know the most common tech problems faced last year like hooking digital devices to the school WiFi, running a tech-infused lesson, or what students face with technology. Submit homework digitally. Know how to use the digital devices available in your class. Model good digital citizenship.

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JUNE 22, 2015

I’ve read several nonscientific studies that concluded students type equally well whether they use iPads or traditional keyboards ( click here ; scroll to ‘ Keyboarding: iPad vs. Traditional’ ). If I’m not using the keyboard, it can fold under the iPad out of the way, allowing me to use the iPad as a tablet.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

We live in unprecedented times of great digital advances and innovation. Technology is moving and changing rapidly across the world while connecting us in unforeseen ways. Online, teens are not more digitally literate or skilled than adults. However, because technology changes so quickly, it can be challenging to keep up.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Students were able to explore various frames of reference, identify a personal story to share using digital media, and experience empathy throughout the process. Digital storytelling has a permanent place in my classroom. Best-in-Class Digital Storytelling Tools. 10 Tips for Digital Storytelling You Don’t Want to Miss.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Each third week of November, students, families and community members focus on the importance of geography by hosting events; using lessons, games, and challenges in the classroom; and often meeting with policymakers and business leaders. Atlas –Barefoot World Atlas is an interactive 3D globe for iPad. BatchGeo—map locations.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

In considering the question, Is technology outpacing you? , let’s first look at technology’s place in the current education landscape. Sure, 73% of teachers use cell phones in their classrooms and 92% say the Internet has a “major impact” on their teaching. It will never: take over education.

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JULY 8, 2022

It’s become clear that for most of them, adding technology to their lessons means layering more work on top of their already overburdened lesson plans. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way. First: Only use technology when it expands your teaching.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems which I share with you. Tech Tip #118–Top 10 iPad Shortkeys. Tech Tip #106–11 Great Typing Timesavers on iPads. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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MAY 12, 2015

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Q: I have a video on my classroom computer I want to use on my iPad. I use Carbonite to make data available to my iPad. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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MARCH 5, 2018

If you have iPads at your school, try these three apps: St. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Wordsearch.

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MAY 10, 2023

The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. That reticence to ask for help or request training changed about a decade ago when technology swept across the academic landscape like a firestorm: iPads and then Chromebooks became the device of choice in the classroom.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

In my case, I used Ctrl+Alt+S to invoke the Windows Snipping Tool Save IPads call these hotkeys. These can be simple or involved and might tie into inquiry taking place in the classroom. If you have IPads, try Stick Nodes. There are dozens of ways to incorporate QR Codes into your classroom.

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APRIL 23, 2019

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Sub-category: PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, iPads. For iPads : collect student pictures into an album.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

These are clever approaches to keeping order among avid learners: Bouncy Balls –balls bounce based on level of noise in the classroom. Calmness Counter –how noisy is your classroom? Teach with IPads. Too Noisy- -another app to show noise level in classroom (app). Classroom management Websites lists' Class Badges.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

‘Technology in education’ has become the buzz phrase for cutting edge classes that are plugged into the latest education trends. Not surprisingly, it takes a lot more than a room full of computers, iPads, and apps to turn “tech ed” from marketing to mainstream. Who teaches digital citizenship? .

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. By fifth grade, students appreciate technology for how it can speed up their class projects and seek out ways to use it to make their educational journey easier. IPads call these hotkeys.

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APRIL 24, 2020

extend a classroom discussion so all students can offer their ideas, even the shy members. IFTTT is intuitive, friendly, and will quickly become one of your favorite time-saving, life-organizing, classroom management apps. IF my iPad (laptop, phone) battery is low THEN remind me to recharge it. then that happens.

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