Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Here are great ideas from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew on how to keep tech fresh this summer. Elementary School – Interactive Learning Apps Picture your elementary school classroom filled with excited young learners, their eyes glued to their screens as they explore new ideas and grasp essential skills through educational apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. How to celebrate Here are activities I like that blend learning into the celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography As a class, come up with two locations in each state, to total 100.

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 9, 2017

Before I became an instructional technology facilitator, I was an early elementary school teacher. One critical skill that I taught students, as well as their parents, was how to choose a “just right” book—one that wasn’t too easy or too hard but was perfectly matched to an individual’s reading interests and abilities.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

What does E-rate have to do with digital citizenship? How do I get started with meeting CIPA requirements? What does E-rate have to do with digital citizenship? The connection between E-rate and digital citizenship may not seem obvious at first. Read on to learn more. What is E-rate?

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Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Instead, you can share a Google Doc with several learners in a group and they can all access it online and work on it simultaneously. Google Docs scavenger hunt : If you want students to learn more about how to use Google Docs itself, make a copy of this template. Or they can use Google Slides for digital storytelling.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In most classrooms today, students are seen working together in small groups, perhaps in learning stations in the classroom, and taking a more active role in learning. The students would work together on different activities and it enabled me to interact with each group. Read more: DOs and DON’Ts of teaching digital citizenship.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2020

Digital Citizenship review. Group Discussion. How to Use Tech to Help Graduating Students Find Jobs. As a teacher, you’re fully aware of how much the world is advancing through technology. Here’s a great question I got from Sandy: I am a computer teacher for Elementary as well as for preschoolers…ages 3 and 4.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

Ruben Montoya, director of edtech systems at the Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, agrees. Citizen wonders how face-to-face time can be maximized with likely physical distancing requirements, but she thinks teachers should focus on checking in with students individually or in small groups however possible.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

Read on to discover the impact of technology in education and how to get the most from its unique benefits. Many educators aren’t motivated to use digital resources in class, often because they’re unsure how to use them effectively or are unaware of the benefits.[1] How to Get the Most from Technology in Schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

So let's tell everybody how to get that, because if you go in there, you might go, Oh, well, I can't use this. 00;01;56;29 – 00;01;58;18 Vicki Davis How do you set up that education account? So one group can go way over here, and one can right over there, and it's like kind of an infinite sizing.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 11, 2018

In the Alisal Union School District in Salinas, California, we aim to establish a whole-community approach to digital citizenship. In addition, as we worked toward earning Common Sense Recognition , we needed to have a plan in place for how to engage the parent community on these topics.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 11, 2018

In the Alisal Union School District in Salinas, California, we aim to establish a whole-community approach to digital citizenship. In addition, as we worked toward earning Common Sense Recognition , we needed to have a plan in place for how to engage the parent community on these topics.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

In this post I would like to explore resources that are available for facilitating proper digital citizenship in the classroom. 10 Digital Citizenship Resources: The Web in the Classroom…Part 3 ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). It is important that educators teach and model proper digital citizenship.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

take a picture of themselves with the iPad camera (or another digital camera). This has the advantage of tying into class discussions on digital citizenship (why use avatars rather than the real picture?). An easier version — and well-suited to elementary age students — is Find My Body Parts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Age group: Middle school. Age group: middle and high school. Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: high school.

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Tech Helpful

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For a couple of years I've been trying to figure out a way to have an elementary tech team.I Our elementary school is piloting the idea of elective Friday's for fourth and fifth grade students. Lesson one was all about digital citizenship. He also taught the students how to add print drivers to a computer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Over the decades I have added both Educational Technology and TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) endorsements to my elementary teaching certificate. One evening a man from another culture asked me how to spell a specific word. We grouped them by the first letter of the state name in alphabetical order.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

As Jon Corippo, chief learning officer for the nonprofit group Computer-Using Educators ( CUE ), put it: “When do you see that ever?”. A big concern for teachers in shifting to remote instruction has been how to manage students and make sure they complete assignments without watching over them all day. Focus on student ownership.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

More simply, it’s: …an extended group of knowledgeable people you reach out to for answers, and trust to guide your learning. How to build a PLN. Now that you’re convinced you need a PLN, how do you build one? Join a professional group like ISTE or CSTA. Keep your professional social media pure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-your-own adventure (kind of) role playing. Players pick their NFL team and the opponent, the level of difficulty, skill level, their age-group, and the length of play.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 15, 2023

The topic could be directly related to the subject you’ll be teaching or it could be something topical and broad, like climate change, privacy in the digital age, or the importance of volunteering. Split students into groups or pairs and ask them to discuss or debate the topic. After the discussion or debate, debrief as a class.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

Individuals from diverse or historically marginalized populations are more likely to feel part of the group and safe to contribute. Learners in general, including those from majority groups, are more likely to empathize with, respect and relate to individuals unlike themselves if they are exposed early to diversity.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. Groups can be based on interest or ability to differentiate instruction.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They also don’t automatically know how to cope with emotions and stress, view different perspectives with empathy and solve problems socially. How can you help them manage day-to-day life in healthy ways? How can their time in school help them become adults who are ready for jobs in a 21st-century world?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 25, 2017

In today’s show, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach discusses helping kids in poverty succeed and: How we start helping kids in poverty. Subtle bias of educators and how to address it. Today on Episode 84, we’re going to talk about how to help kids in poverty succeed. How can we be the end yet? Transcript for this episode.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 24, 2017

Lesson plans are delivered via a granular combination of rigorous critical thinking activities, real-world problems, and interactive digital games that make implementing the curriculum easy and flexible for any type of classroom and fully supportive of a schoolwide goal of college and career readiness. How to use Stepping Stones.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2016

The QWERTY keyboard is at the core of digital communication. Students are digital natives, but as of yet, no child comes to class naturally able to navigate the QWERTY keyboard. Teachers don’t have time to teach each child how to do this, so, much of keyboard learning is done by self-directed games. Dr. William L. Morgan (Ph.D.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2015

Here’s a great question I got from Sandy: I am a computer teacher for Elementary as well as for preschoolers…ages 3 and 4. Now I do not have any idea how to come up with something cute and educational for the little ones to do on stage for the program so that all can see what they are doing in computer class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

They teach students how to think critically and solve evidence-based problems. How to get started. Play around with it to see how the sensor works and how changing the position affects the appearance of the graph. How to use PASCO devices in your classroom. basic concepts of position and velocity. Homescreen.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

Before considering how to approach a so-called "day after" discussion with students, consider whether it's appropriate or necessary, as well as considering your own comfort level. From elementary school through high school, most kids don't have the news and media literacy skills to fully understand what's happening.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve never seen a group of students who didn’t get fully involved in the taping (and sometimes fully distracted). Collaborate with a group. How kids worked twice as hard on that project as anything else they did? For every job a student doesn’t feel prepared for, there’s a group member who does.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

Laura: So I used to do literacy task boards on paper, which is basically — while I meet quickly a group for guided reading, this is what the rest of the students are doing — so there a lot of different choices on the choice board. Reading group using flipgrid to record video responses in our Literature Circle group today.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

You can’t just break students into groups and expect a collaborative workflow. Every activity in your classroom includes how-to questions. A fun writing project is a Round Robin story where a group of students collaborate to write a story. Here’s how it works: Form students into groups of five.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. The target audience is obviously their own educators, but IT teams at other school districts can take notes from FCPS’s IT team on how to digitally engage their own educators. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

There are a myriad of platforms to choose from: edublogs , Kidblog (especially good for elementary age children), Blogger , wordpress , and most LMS systems have a blogging platform built in. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

Now is the time to teach students how to deal with controversial subjects and how to cope with a plurality of ideas and identities School administrators hate controversy and will often discourage teachers from discussing hot topics in their classrooms at all.

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