Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2016

Today: Organizing your classroom. 30 minutes each, show how to set up your classroom to be tech-infused. Do you wonder how to set up an effective, exciting, motivating classroom to teach tech? It’s not difficult–but there are steps you must take that are different from a grade-level or subject-specific classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. Even if we go back to face-to-face learning, we will all have to be prepared to teach online, and the best way to do this is to first educate ourselves with research and pedagogy.

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2022

This form of education helps teach students the critical collaboration and analytical skills they will need to succeed in the future workplace and society. If you are wondering how to get started with inquiry-based projects visit PBL Works. Have learners create digital products to demonstrate learning. Flip the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2015

Today: Organizing your classroom. 30 minutes each, show how to set up your classroom to be tech-infused. Do you wonder how to set up an effective, exciting, motivating classroom to teach tech? It’s not difficult–but there are steps you must take that are different from a grade-level or subject-specific classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

Guest author, Emily Clearly over at mysimpleshow has ten more reasons why videos are a great educational tool for your teaching: Videos are in line with the technological times and can be accessed on the Internet at any point, from wherever you are in the world. Education is something that will never go out of style.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

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. A screencasting program enables teachers to create videos of any activity that takes place on their computer screen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. Technology in education is the greatest show on earth. Well, at least in the classroom. ” Education’s fix requires technology. Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2020

They all sound educational, rigorous, and dynamic but the problem is there are far more than you can use. So, how do you pick those five apps? How does this apply to the selection of apps? These sorts of digital tools are not more complicated to use or more expensive. That’s not a good app for your circumstances.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There seems to be a limitless supply of online education content. But often, these offerings are too basic, a lite version of a paid program that isn’t terribly robust, confusing, or created by people who don’t really understand how to blend technology and education. How to get started.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

Sessions were run like a flipped classroom where attendees accessed daily topics, read/watched materials, tested their knowledge, and experimented with projects. In some cases, they failed and tried again–and shared with classmates what went wrong and how it was fixed–or how they attempted to fix it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. How to get started. Education applications.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

As an educator, I am thrilled. Twitter’s gossipy reputation among administrators and most parents negates its dynamic applications in the classroom. Before unpacking Twitter in your classroom, here are a few guidelines: Clear its use with your administration. The visual of how they use it to enhance education is powerful.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 18, 2021

In each installment of our Educator Perspectives series, we interview teachers and administrators across the country who are engaging, motivating, and challenging their students in unique ways. Figuring out how to support teachers who are doing incredible work under difficult circumstances is certainly a challenge as well.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

Teacher ‘Pro’ accounts are available so educators can track student reading, assign articles, and offer quizzes. Here a graphic of it’s start page: How does this blend into the classroom: Newsela develops student interest in non-fiction, deep reading, and inquiry with focused articles written to their reading level.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2016

It’s intuitive, aligned with other programs you already know how to use, with virtually no learning curve. Here’s how it works: You log into your account and set up your class. You can even record your own voice as an overlay (requires premium) for a how-to video or a digital storybook. Education applications.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

The goal has nothing to do with who wins the argument but how evidence and ideas are presented. How to use it in your Classroom. Finally, this approach is not well-suited to webinars, a flipped classroom, or any other teaching method where students view resources without the opportunity to question them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

The Common Sense Education team just returned from a fabulous four days at the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia. It was great to connect with the thousands of educators who came by our booth, attended our sessions, and entertained us with their impressive karaoke skills. Digital Bytes: A Project-Based Approach to Digital Literacy .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Educational Applications. Today’s classroom requires teachers build how-to videos that are used on class websites, in flipped classrooms, and for professional development. Educational Applications. Education Applications. I noticed complaints about GoodReader’s iOS7 update. Educreations.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The Bad As mentioned at the beginning of this article, “blended learning” may be one of the most misused terms in education. Because the digital learning environment is not constrained by the class schedule or space, it is easy to fill it up with resources and activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2016

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. Screencasting. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for over 15 years.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 20, 2015

Project Based Learning and Flipped Classrooms: There Really is a Connection – Mike Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Have you ever considered flipping your classroom and engaging students in Project Based Learning at the same time? A flipped infusion just might be the answer.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

After a Master’s degree, 120-plus credits, and 30 years in education, I now understand that whatever I do and wherever I go, I am happiest when I’m learning. During three decades of figuring out how to make the most of my summertimes, I’ve developed a list of my favorite PD opportunities for June through August. Digital Citizenship.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2017

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) is an annual initiative that aims to inspire K-12 students to take interest in computer science. Bryan Miller, Educator Community Manager at Wonder Workshop, and Kiki Prottsman, Curriculum Development Manager at Code.org®, In the year 2020 we’ll have 1.4 A Beginner’s Guide ,” on December 8th.

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TeacherCast

MAY 31, 2019

If you are interested in learning how to Podcast with your students, please check out our new website, www.PodcastingWithStudents.com to learn more. Public Synths and Podcasts can be shared and searched for and cover hundreds of educational topics. This is a great feature for creating classroom discussions. Final Opinions.

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techlearning

APRIL 13, 2018

Since Alice Johnson though, these terms have found their way into the mouths of almost every “educational thought leader” and administrator as a way to describe the role of the teacher in the 21st century classroom. We need to become the COO of our classrooms, the Chief Opportunity Orchestrator. It was a disaster.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2013

Below you will find information about the event, how to attend, the current schedule of presentations, and a call for volunteers to help moderate sessions (we need you!). O''Neil, Technology Coordinator How Can Mainstream Education Meet The Needs of Post-Modern Society? - Please distribute this information wherever you can.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

To see the conference schedule in your own time zone, and for instructions on how to click through and enter a session, please go to our schedule page. Revathi Viswanathan Improved Reporting Triples Educators’ Accuracy When Analyzing Data - Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. Yildiz, Teacher Educator 2:00pm Edmodo – An Asynchronous Métier - Ms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

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. Ever since I started Classroom 2.0 I''ve looked forward to holding an event specifically about Ed Tech in the classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

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. Audience: K-12 & higher ed educators, researchers, institutions, and organizations globally. Digital Citizenship.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And it lacks the enthusiasm—as well as the desire to help kids own and engage in their learning—that defines us as innovative educators. 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.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Vote and possibly win $4000 of technology from CDW – I recently supplied CDW a list of products that I thought would be great for a Podcasting/Webinar Production/Flip Classroom Studio. STEM Workshop – If you are at Pete and C in Hershey, Pennsylvania check out the STAR Educator Discovery Preconference Workshop.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. If this is the first time they’ve logged in, they can start with a quick how-to on using Actively Learn. Things I really like.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2016

On reflection, I guess my approach would have been a combination of pedagogical leadership where I was “ concerned with the links between desired educational outcomes and the set of realities that surround the educational setting. ” The educational setting was in itself unknown. Digital Citizenship in Schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

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. Global Education Conference Call For Proposals Opens May 1st! virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. In this time of Coronavirus challenges, I want the opportunity to share thoughts, ideas, and questions that I hope are helpful to all of those amazing educators that are doing so much for our students.

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