Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2016

Provide video evidence of class activities in a flipped classroom. I’ve started for you by noting cost, what digital devices they work best on, and suggested age group: Educreations . Educreations is best suited for any age group and is designed for iPads. Make a video to help the substitute teacher.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 18, 2017

In my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (published in September), students are sent on a mission to instruct others by creating their own video tutorials. Check out this video showing a group of students behind the scenes creating their Common Craft videos.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Classroom activities should be handled the same. Really, though: Why not? teachers can answer questions in a timely manner.

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EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In constructivist classrooms, students are active and reflective, and effectively leveraging the technology tools to craft this environment is crucial in creating personalized learning. Using technology for whole group instruction and formative assessment. Teacher has time to conference and work with individuals and small groups.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Mobile Show and Tell – Divide students into small groups (3 to 5 students). Recreate a Photo – Students choose one of the Mobile Show and Tell images to recreate as a group. Selfie Adventures – Pair students or divide them into small groups. They share the original then the newly created photo.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 21, 2016

We can guide our learners to communicate and collaborate effectively with their mobile devices by pairing or grouping them to problem-solve and create. You will soon see how these icebreakers and activities will help transform your classroom into a thriving community of excited learners supporting each other. Try the Popplet app.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Cathie Norris and ElliotSoloway, university professors studying how much time today’s youth spend with text-based materials vs. image-based materials, “ estimate that 90 percent of K-12 classroom time in the U.S. They are on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat before they even step into our classrooms. “If

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. digital portfolios for students–this can be accomplished with whatever LMS you use, Google Apps, Google Classroom, or even Dropbox.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

A little group of Hawaii educators held a Hangout on Air about The Flipped Classroom last evening. Anne Torige suggested the flipped classroom, for instance, because she was interested in learning more about it. This HOA was our fourth, and also a first for our little group: we had a special guest. It was fun!

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wwwatanabe

MAY 4, 2013

App Tutorial Links Learnability Cost PaperPort Notes PaperPort Notes Tutorial Tips listed below Easy Free Educreations Educreations Tutorial Tips listed below Easy Free Notability Notability YouTube Tutorial Medium $1.99 If the purpose is to capture their thought process real time, then Educreations is perfect as a screen cast.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

You can setup classes and easily add groups of students into a class in practically no time. Students join your classroom by scanning a QR code granting them access the class account. Designed for independent use by students ages 5 and up, Seesaw allows students to document and share their learning. curation portfolios student work'

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Graphite Blog

JULY 11, 2016

Read on to see how students used design thinking to solve a real-world challenge, and how you can start planning a design thinking project in your classroom! To start, I asked students to pull out their Kendama (an unheard of event in the classroom) and immediately there was excitement in the air.

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wwwatanabe

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Furthermore, students could explain with models like this LearnZillion example , and they could capture it on a screencast such as Educreations or ShowMe on an iPad; or, using Google Draw (or Paint with a PC, or Pages on a Mac), to draw out their models, and record their voice/drawing with Screenr. How else does this post connect with you?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Prior to the start of each unit, I gather appropriate resources at a variety of reading levels (I usually group my students into three or four levels) from several free sites. In addition, for each reading level I create a Google Doc listing the specific resources (books and articles to be read) for that group. After reading Epic!

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Prior to the start of each unit, I gather appropriate resources at a variety of reading levels (I usually group my students into three or four levels) from several free sites. In addition, for each reading level I create a Google doc listing the specific resources (books and articles to be read) for that group. After reading Epic!

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Good apps for creating tutorials: Explain Everything, Screen Chomp, Educreations District #2 : Revisiting their BYOD initiative. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Important for modeling classroom management. Goals based on Project Red and SAMR.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

What follows are four ways that technology transcends analog tools in education, including those that demonstrate simple recall while providing valuable feedback to fuel learning to the true innovators in our classrooms: teachers. Socrative , Kahoot and TopHat , are great tools for augmenting assessment, especially in flipped classrooms.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2015

She designed opportunities for her students to work independently or in small groups at the board to review key skills and complete small activities. As Meghan illustrates on her blog and through the video below, these can also be group activities where students collaborate to explain their thinking on a number of different problems.

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