Ask a Tech Teacher

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. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

Digital Citizenship 293

Digital Citizenship Knowledge Base Social Media Chromebook 293

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Unfortunately, so are school budget restrictions, unmanageable workloads and aging (not to mention underperforming) classroom technology, to name just a few concerns. Let’s explore the four principles that schools and districts should follow in order to maximize the potential of new classroom technology. Get ready for implementation.

EdTech 146

EdTech How To Comparison Training 146

MindSpark

JUNE 7, 2022

When I became a teacher, I knew I wanted to create engaging, creative, and rigorous learning experiences for my students but it wasn’t until I read Doctor Adeyemi Stembridge’s Culturally Responsive Education that I felt I knew EXACTLY how to do it. Why should you read this book? Elie Wiesel’s Night talks about death.

Student Engagement 40

Student Engagement Education Learning Social Media 40

There is no box

JUNE 30, 2015

Silent classrooms. This is not how we learn in the real world. Enter Twitter and the rise of social media. These groups (or Personal Learning Networks) allow for just in time information requests, asynchronous collaboration and archived knowledge bases. The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn.

Personal Learning Network 40

Personal Learning Network Learning Social Media Knowledge Base 40

MindShift

MARCH 25, 2018

Earlier this year, math educator and Demos executive Dan Meyer published a piece entitled “Lonely Math Teachers” in which he raised the shortcomings of social media and the need for innovative math teachers to connect online. “Our upbringing and experiences have a huge impact on how we see things.”

Social Media 37

Social Media Twitter Education Knowledge Base 37

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Part of our job as teachers and educators is to nurture a culture of debate in our classes, teach our students how to become better debaters, and how to voice their opinions in respectful and responsible ways. Should schools ban/allow access to social media websites ? Are social media websites making people asocial?

Social Media 117

Social Media Mobility Robotics Knowledge Base 117

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

Jennifer, Darren, and I will talk a bit about big picture issues, like making time for instruction on digital literacy, and how to teach kids to think critically about conspiracy theories when those conspiracy theories are widely believed among the community you teach in. Teach kids HOW to think, not WHAT to think. What is school for?”

Mobility 98

Mobility Laptops Video Accessibility 98