Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2020

If your teaching has been moved online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, learn which webtools make online learning exciting for kids and easy for you in this class–starts March 23rd! The 21st century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here are a few reasons why: It facilitates differentiated instruction. Every student has a specific academic background, a unique set of interests and learning needs, as well as expectations of what a great learning experience should be. Take everything with a grain of salt though.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

4 – UDL – Universal Design for Learning Inaccessibility is still a major downfall of some online learning implementations. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ensures that lessons are accessible for every student. You can best help your students implement these tech tools by learning how to use them yourself.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Although even the youngest children are adept with technology for entertainment, students in early elementary grades need significant support to use technology for learning. Teachers are relying on parents to foster consistent home learning environments. Reimagining Staffing and Scheduling.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Education technology continually examines and redesigns pedagogy in an attempt to meet the learning needs of our students. But rarely do we apply this same level of commitment and creativity to the learning experiences of educators.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 21, 2016

This year, I’ve focused on using the Station Rotation Model to create smaller learning communities within our larger class, spend more time working in small groups with students, differentiate instruction, and make the most of our limited technology. Bestseller! Available on Amazon.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Meanwhile, those students who watched the video but struggled to perform well on the assessment can be pulled into small group differentiated instruction with the teacher while the rest of the class moves onto practice and application with the support of their peers. #3

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Actively Learn is a site I've covered many times in the past and is excellent for comprehension/reading where educators can take a text and make it their "own" by adding questions, assessments, polls, to assess a student's learning and differentiate instruction. Actively Learn can help.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

Both of these online tools – applications have huge archives of teacher created quizzes. is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, “Kahoots”, are multiple-choice quizzes that allow user responses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Michele Williams-George, an education consultant and researcher, claimed there were 25 words people inaccurately used interchangeably with the term, such as differentiated instruction and flipped classroom. Her goal is to reach the students that struggle the most—their success or failure is her evidence of the school model’s efficacy.

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Learning With Lucie

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

But I'm thankful to technology for helping to bridge the distance and timezones that separate us. I'm thankful to the way PEOPLE are using technology to connect across distance and timezones. I look forward every morning to seeing if there are any new post in our online class community. or should I say.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 15, 2020

Actively Learn is a site I've covered many times in the past and is excellent for comprehension/reading where educators can take a text and make it their "own" by adding questions, assessments, polls, to assess a student's learning and differentiate instruction. Actively Learn can help.

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Hapara

MAY 9, 2022

Technology is present in kids’ worlds now more than ever before. I am currently a fifth grade teacher and Digital Learning Coach at Oak Grove Elementary School in Lexington, South Carolina. para, our digital citizenship consisted of walking around and monitoring students’ technology use in class. Where we started .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. Mississippi Learning. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Hemet USD’s Director of Literacy and Intervention, Kristen Anderson, stated that participants are loving both the flexibility of the programs’ independent online learning and the support of the facilitator-led virtual sessions. “It It approaches adult learning in a really respectful way and meets them where they’re at,” she said.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this interview, we chat about challenges teachers are facing in the midst of the pandemic and what strategies teachers can use in a concurrent classroom learning environment. Losing the Benefits of Online Learning. Catlin says there are many benefits to face-to-face learning and online learning.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 19, 2020

This is a great tool for educators to assess student learning and differentiate instruction. Best of all, Wooclap has lots of robust features that set it apart from their competition such as: 20+ ways to interact w/ their audience, integrates w/ most LMS, Keynote, PPT, Google Slides, etc, free for education, and much much more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Students taking advanced STEM and foreign language courses, for example, might benefit from increased instruction in those subjects. Sharing their experiences with one another enriches their understanding of how their students learn and what they need to succeed.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 31, 2015

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. Free Webinar – ISTE Online Learning Network: Personalized Learning with Andrew Miller. Later in my career there was another step that may have gone beyond Individualized Instruction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A real-time national education study of more than one million students by two leading not-for-profit education groups has found that continued engagement with technology-enabled instruction during COVID-19 school closures has significantly reduced students’ loss of potential reading growth. Encourage Student Participation.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 8, 2018

Not only are these reports generated in real-time but they make it easy to assess students and differentiate instruction, making it a vital resource for both school and in home instruction. For another detailed review on iPracticeMath click here.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 13, 2016

This is a great way for educators to differentiate instruction, lead professional development, and integrate mobile technology into their teachings. GatherEducation - Interactive Online Learning Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device from GatherEducation on Vimeo. Below is a brief demo.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. But this innovation is at odds with a generations-old notion of what school should look like and it is spurring debate of the merit of online schools.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 3, 2021

Education technology (edtech) is on the path to conquering every classroom. With schools opening their gates again, the forced transition to online learning environments from the past year has made it clear that a hybrid learning model works and should continue to safeguard and minimize future disruptions to learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Related: Online therapy for babies and toddlers with delays often works well — but funding isn’t keeping up with the need.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Teacher unions cautiously endorse it, while flagging the concern that teachers could be replaced by technology. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Could personalized learning spur an even more splintered society? Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 11, 2020

As with almost everything technology-based, remote teaching and learning has been on a steady increase in recent years. Socrates - A great new site where educators can asses students and differentiate instruction through a unique Game Based Learning system.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Activity-Based Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Achieve3000 offers innovative new ways to empower blended learning and accelerate student literacy gains through differentiated instruction in the 2016-2017 school year. The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 10, 2015

New personalization technologies and the demand for differentiated instruction as a common strategy will only further place further strains the ecosystem of data systems and paper based records that form the patchwork of our current student records. SmartSeries Refresh | Online Learning: Myths, Reality & Promise.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 3, 2019

Today, we’re taking a look at some of the most important aspects of K-12 fundraising technology that you need to know about before you embark on one of these engaging fundraisers with your students. Whether parents or students are taking the lead, online fundraisers promote participation and community involvement through shareable features.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

. * Box Island: One Hour Coding - A fun free iOS app for ages 6 on up learning the basics of coding. TenMarks - A very popular site for Math for grades 1st-12th that tracks student progress as well as helps teachers differentiate instruction. Scoodle Jam - A great iPad app for grades K-6th ideal for Project Based Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

What if you were to marry humans with technology? Could you substitute some of the tutoring time with time on ed tech without sacrificing how much students learn? This blend of tutors and technology yielded results in ninth grade algebra equivalent to daily human tutoring alone at a much lower cost: $2,000 per student versus $3,000.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 8th Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Learn more here. Symposium , The Leadership 3.0

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2020

For the next two years, we had 13 teachers experiment with innovative instructional models and new ways to leverage technology to enhance instruction. After the pilot, we saw how blended learning could help meet our students’ needs. Related Content: eSchool News Online and Blended Learning Guide.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, announced it is partnering with Analytic Measures Inc. AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities.

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