Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

This summer, Ask a Tech Teacher is holding five Summer Learning classes : Tech-infused Teacher (Certificate edition for CEUs or grad class for college credit ). 20 Webtools in 20 Days (for groups interested in learning webtools from the Structured Learning curriculum ). And Google Hangouts. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2017

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Organizing your classroom. Flipped classroom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Welcome to the third article in a series devoted to facilitating proper student internet interaction in the classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1 or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. Upcoming Opportunities: Are you traveling to Learning Forward Conference in Washington DC in December?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Apps used in your lessons should improve learning rather than just being a cool app kids might like. You may love what the app can do (like gamify math or quizzify science) but the technology required is more than you can handle, might require hours of time just to learn how to apply it. Google Apps. The tech must be there.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2016

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Organizing your classroom. Flipped classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2020

This can be played online or as an app through Google Play. After launch, students can learn about a large range of real astronomical missions dating from the 1980s and the data they collected. It can be included in a list of websites that students independently access during flipped classroom preparation for a space unit.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2015

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Organizing your classroom. Flipped classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

The web now is teeming with all kinds of educational podcasts covering various topics from politics to science and digital citizenship. For podcasts to reach audience they need to be distributed through a hosting platform such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, etc. Why use podcasts in the classroom?

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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 worked together as a Personal Learning Network.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Eamil we and we can talk about a powerful interactive online workshop for educators that models blended learning best practices. As we do this… what lessons can be learned? Thanks so much.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Participants–like students–learned in different ways.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

Using the Internet in classrooms has morphed from optional to organic. Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. But blended learning is more than simply replacing lectures and books with web-based technology. Infrastructure.

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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. Once a week, we got together virtually (Google Hangout or TweetUp) to share ideas, answer questions, and discuss nuances. How to use GHO.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This includes DropBox, Google Drive, Poll Everywhere, Camtasia, and Adobe Stock. This is great for flipped classrooms or auto-generated lesson plans that students can play, pause, and rewind as needed for their learning style. In this familiar program, there’ll be a shallow learning curve and lots of new options.

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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. They can be uploaded to Google Classroom, Schoology, Blackboard, and a selection of other LMSs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

One thing we can all agree on is that there are tons of free tech tools available that enrich learning. I belong to several Tech Teacher forums, FB groups, G+ Communities, and every day I find more great tools I can’t wait to use in my classroom. Learn, teach or research English language. I can’t keep up with them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As each teacher downloads their favorites, students spend as much time learning the app as applying it academically. It can access many cloud accounts including Dropbox and Google Drive. Educreations can be linked to file locations like Dropbox and Google Drive as well as LMS communities like Edmodo. full access to Google Drive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2016

Provide video evidence of class activities in a flipped classroom. Once a project is complete, it can be uploaded as a pdf, an image, or a video to most major digital portfolios. Google Hangouts on Air. Before using Google Hangouts on Air, review its application to your digital device.

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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. If the school’s wifi network constantly goes down, teachers will learn not to depend upon it.

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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. If the school’s WiFi network constantly goes down, teachers will learn not to depend upon it.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 18, 2021

I created our hybrid plans over the summer and we’ve learned a lot since then, so I’m going to be revisiting those and updating them to present to our reopening committee in the coming weeks. Google Everything! Google Classroom has been pretty important. It was difficult for our teachers to learn so much on the fly.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Welcome to the fifth post in a series designed to support the use of technology for differentiated learning… in and beyond the PBL classroom. Part 5: 12 Tech Ideas and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Online Discussions. The best is always the school LMS (Learning Management System), or possibly even an area in a Google Doc.

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wwwatanabe

MARCH 16, 2018

Giving students a platform to exercise their voice, and listening to learn and understand, makes an impact on learning, academic discourse, class/school/district culture and climate.

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TeacherCast

MAY 31, 2019

Today, we are proud to announce that Synth is being awarded the 2019 TeacherCast Best in Class Award for Best Classroom Podcasting Application. Personally, I think Synth is an application that belongs in every classroom no matter the grade level or subject area. This is a great feature for creating classroom discussions.

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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. ” (1).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2015

100,000 Stars is programmed by space enthusiasts at Google. After launch, students can learn about a large range of real astronomical missions dating from the 1980s and the data they collected. It can be included in a list of websites that students independently access during flipped classroom preparation for a space unit.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 1st A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. Andrew Carnegie 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 at www.geo-education.org.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. Bottom line: A well-planned, -produced, and -curated set of free resources bound to get kids hooked on learning to code. DreamBox Learning Math. Imagine Math.

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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. What is Actively Learn. Actively Learn is a high-functioning ereader for ELA, social studies, and science students in grades 2-12.

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techlearning

APRIL 13, 2018

We need to become the COO of our classrooms, the Chief Opportunity Orchestrator. I first heard ‘sage on the stage’ and ‘guide on the side’ early in my teaching career when I decided to try The Flipped Classroom™. Through my flipped classroom failure, though, I did learn how to create a student-centered classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 29th Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. Learn more and register here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

If you want to follow those tweets, you can either track the conference hashtag #ticalsls14 or you can follow the Learning Revolution Twitter account at @learnrevproject. Amina Gorie Sindhi SPOTLIGHT - Content Curation as a Context for Teaching and Learning in Science - Eric A.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. DreamBox Learning Math. It's savvy enough to keep kids focused, and teachers will be tapping their toes to the unorthodox learning method. Google Classroom.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. DreamBox Learning Math. It's savvy enough to keep kids focused, and teachers will be tapping their toes to the unorthodox learning method. Google Classroom.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

And Google Hangouts. Well, at least in the classroom. Learning tech ed this summer is an opportunity you’re ready for. Topics attendees will learn by doing include: Blogging—to reflect, collaborate with classmates, share perspectives during class, complete assessments in some cases. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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