Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Now, beyond the moral and ethical persuasiveness of a paperless classroom, there is compelling evidence that the time is right to eliminate paper from the classroom: the high cost of printing : Yale University noted that “Every 2.5 Three years ago, I wrote about going paperless in your classroom but much has changed.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Beneylu is a K-8 online learning platform that puts critical classroom applications, resources, activities, and games in a secure online universe that is accessible to parents, teachers, and students. The brightly-colored friendly Beneylu platform provides a web-based classroom with intuitive learning resources and student-friendly apps.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The classroom teacher can’t be replaced by an electronic device.”. The teacher is as critical or more in an online classroom as they are in the physical class. When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline. Online learning is different that the physical classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2017

Group projects were nice, but getting everyone in the same library or house meant parents driving, schedules re-arranged, and time that could have been spent on learning was spent on making arrangements. What’s an LMS. resource library of teacher-generated materials, but also open-source educational content. whiteboard.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 17, 2018

Mix it up: Try using different formats such as: workshops, individual coaching, just in time, drop in hours, presentations during staff meetings/department meetings, or developing a video library or channel. Create attractive courses: Use a high-quality LMS to develop a library of attractive courses your teachers can take in their own time.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 13, 2022

In preparing students for the essential skills they need for the future, we have different methods and digital tools that we can bring into our classroom space. Educators might wonder how to build SEL activities into the classroom and whether it takes a lot of time. But what skills do students really need? . Genius hour.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At the beginning of the school year, I find that by asking students to share their stories — either by creating an About Me or participating in some icebreakers — it helps build the essential relationships in our classrooms. 6 Digital storytelling tools for hybrid learning environments. Here are some options to explore: Buncee.

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JUNE 27, 2017

million teachers, is kind of a Google Classroom (very) lite with options that make it easy to submit homework, comment on classwork, and track student progress. It can be integrated into many LMSs (including Canvas, Google Classroom, and the new Microsoft Classroom). 5 Programs That Make Digital Note-taking Easy.

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Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

April is School Library Month and it brings an opportunity to highlight the work done and impact made by librarians and media specialists. First sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association (ALA), it originally got its start after the creation of the National Book Committee, a non-profit organization in 1954.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Best of all, you can use these ideas to bring a past poroject of yours to the blended and eLearning classroom. The Blended and eLearning PBL Classroom… A Journey from Analog to Digital Project Based Learning. Next, students learn about heroes and their attributes using their text and the library. Thanks so much.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This should be true in your traditional classroom also. ” If your school has an LMS, consider whether you can make the learning and teaching jobs more flexible and differentiated by providing a schedule of all work. If you teach online, how has that experience changed the way you teach in a classroom? Now I need your help.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Read more: Fostering the development of SEL skills in your classroom. For several years, I have enjoyed doing project-based learning (PBL) with my students and recently learned about Tract (use code RACHELLE to try), which offers so much for educators and students exploring PBL for their classroom.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Every Earth Day, someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. 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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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2022

Even for teachers who are just building data literacy skills, the resources available help them start immediately in the classroom. Searching their library of online course, you can find practice activities and videos for use with younger students through high school and college. The resources can be filtered based on grade level. .

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 27, 2015

The school district discovered that the Gaggle Safe Classroom Learning Management System (LMS) hit all the criteria educators were looking for, including simple access, great customer service and a way to keep students safe without requiring additional time and resources from teachers or the technology department.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

eSpark works on all devices–desktops, Chromebooks, iPads (with the free app)–pretty much whatever digital device you use in your classroom. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use. It works with Google Classroom–now that’s exciting. How to get started.

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APRIL 19, 2016

rework existing lesson plans in the school’s mandated digital program that too often, changes every year. This means they have to re-enter the lesson plan in a new format for a new LMS. the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. How to go Paperless in Your Classroom.

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APRIL 11, 2016

Someone in your school, maybe the parent group, will raise the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. 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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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Screencastify for education is an easy-to-use, free browser extension that can flip a classroom to online learning. . Then you can share directly to Google Classroom. Here are some various ways to integrate screencasting activities in your classroom , including fluency practice to slideshow narration. .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 1st A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. Using the Internet in classrooms has morphed from optional to organic. Use the SAMR Model to Spearhead Technology in Your Classroom.

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Buncee

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Whether in physical classroom spaces or in a hybrid or distance learning environment, our focus at the start of the year is on building relationships and engaging students in learning. The challenge this year for many is creating the right spaces to build those relationships when we are not together in our physical classrooms.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. The teacher will not disappear from the classroom when students bring their devices to school. It’s really happening.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

With transformative digital changes happening in classrooms today, basic learning management systems now deliver the answers to most of those well worn questions on parent portals. Skype in the Classroom is a free community of educators from around the world and offers a variety of resources on getting started.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ? Teachers can start from scratch or build from anything in the FlexBooks library. These books can be distributed in numerous digital content, or printed as hard copy.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology: They all have a chat feature. Every single learning management system (LMS) out there has a chat or post feature. As for me, I use the social media aspects of Destiny, my library management software. They become active participants in their own digital citizenship.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners. CYPHER LEARNING NEO LMS ( www.cypherlearning.com ) CYPHER LEARNING announced the launch of the Windows app for its product NEO LMS.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

This post will focus on three programs that worked well in my 8th-grade history classroom. . For those teachers who use Google Classroom Pear Deck just announced an integration with the platform that will mirror the functions of slide presentations. Pear Deck. I have been on the Pear Deck train for the past five years.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I If so, what are they?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. But wait, there’s more! . corroboration.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2013

Robert Furman Principal The Collaborative Essay - Colette Marie Bennett Using Pinterest and Twitter to Build Your PLN - Elissa Malespina School Library Media Specialist Vision of Learning in Changing World : The emergence of Authentic Pedagogues - ROZINA JUMANI , Associate Prof What’s Working in Online Teacher Education Courses?

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. Below we have included some tips, tools, and actionable ideas for seamlessly integrating perseverance and life skills-building into your content classroom. Why Perseverance?

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. Below we have included some tips, tools, and actionable ideas for seamlessly integrating perseverance and life skills-building into your content classroom. Why Perseverance? ELA LightSail.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The alignment of this popular series of digital professional learning resources to McREL’s model helps educators choose the appropriate classroom tactics for aiding the acquisition and recall of information. published a new report which addresses latest trends in EdTech in the U.S. K-12 market.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Books: Get Started with Google Classroom, Ditch That Homework, and more. She is integral to Cult of Pedagogy’s commitment to making teachers awesome in the classroom. All are focused on teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology — anything to do with teaching, Eric Curts.

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