Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Most alarmingly, a recent study found that as little as one to four hours of daily screen time among children aged one is linked with higher risks of developmental delays in communication, fine motor, problem-solving, and personal and social skills by the age of two. However, it’s not just excessive screen time that is a concern.

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 1, 2017

I use social media to share the things I've learned via blogs to help others, I've asked people to join me at educational events like Edcamp Gig City and CoffeeEDU, I've asked people to support me in my JDRF walks to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and more recently I've reached out to an entire city to help me find my lost dog.

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 17, 2017

When superintendents, technologists and other educators first hear about Gaggle, they sometimes confuse what we offer with a web filter. The goal is to provide early warning detection of harmful situations and to help you decide where to direct resources to address digital citizenship, bullying prevention and mental health issues.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

Olga Dysthe, professor of education at the University of Bergen, separates student writing into two categories: thinking-writing and presentation-writing. Benefits: As easy as social media. Can build class community and build digital citizenship. Blogging Tools Comparison Chart. WS 11-12.6:

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 22, 2013

Though a partnership between Educator Innovator’s Educating for Participatory Politics (EPP) and Oakland Unified School District, high school teachers are designing new curricula and an enriched vision of senior projects with a focus on civic engagement and community action.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

This past January I wrote "10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have" and I have decided to modify it for the "10 Tech Skills Every Educator Should Have". Overall, educators need to understand some basics about technology and that it is not a be-all-end-all solution to everything in a classroom. Here''s my list.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2015

These reflections and social media tips will help bloggers covering ISTE. These tweets teach: Sketchnoting is being studied by educators. This tweet teaches: Educators like quotes. This tweet is a collection of contests curated by Discovery Education. This tweet teaches: Educators care about good health.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Sylvia has been a featured speaker at national education technology conferences in areas ranging from the use of the Internet in schools, Web 2.0

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In their excellent resource No More Independent Reading Without Support (Heinemann, 2013), Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss provide a helpful comparison: Silent Reading. The previous digital tools for assessing independent reading are largely teacher-directed. One of my favorite educational technologies is Kidblog.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency.

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Kathy Schrock

APRIL 30, 2019

The following blog post first appeared on my Discovery Education blog in February of 2019 , and is re-published here with permission. Becoming a good digital citizen commonly includes the mastering of a multitude of skills. You can visit their News and Media Literacy units here.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

The reward of dopamine release, observed in immediate responses to social media requests, helps “stamp in” memories and increase motivation. Early childhood education expert Lilian Katz has long argued that learning which has immediacy, solving problems just-in-time, has “horizontal relevance.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. I get that. Journalists.

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