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. Check out my PBL and Technology Integration Workshop. Digital Citizenship Classroom Posters.

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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

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online 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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

digital devices for students–Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, or netbooks. staff buy-in–if teachers don’t buy into using digital tools, they will continue to print newsletters, hang paper examples of student work, and pass out paper rubrics and worksheets. 3 Classroom Management Apps You’ll Love.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2020

When students see too many apps, they: decide technology is confusing. A colleague considers technology “as approachable as a porcupine” Don’t let students think of the apps you’re so excited about as porcupines! These sorts of digital tools are not more complicated to use or more expensive. Google Apps.

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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. Some of the problems students faced down: How to use twitter.

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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. You’re technophobic, but lately feel like teaching without technology is like looking at a landscape through a straw: You’re missing a lot. Technology in education is the greatest show on earth.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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. If I have to work too hard to figure out how to use it, I move on. How to get started. I found that.

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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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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. Why use podcasts in the classroom? In the field of education, podcasts are used for a wide variety of purposes including: Teaching online or in a hybrid or flipped classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

They can be uploaded to Google Classroom, Schoology, Blackboard, and a selection of other LMSs. How to get started. Study.com classes require a familiarity with technology–playing videos, signing up for a subscription, and a few more details. Provide course materials for a flipped classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Teacher Training Videos — directed at the teaching profession, this includes a wide variety of PD topics such as flipped classrooms, specific digital tools, and more. More on videos as a classroom tool: How to teach with videos. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Video apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Demonstrate how to use Twitter and what the symbols mean (tie this into a class discussion on math symbols). This is especially useful in flipped classrooms where students review videos to prepare for class. Teach digital citizenship. Use Twitter to teach students how to behave in the digital world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

This was difficult, but I sorted, shook, noodled, experimented, sifted, and whittled my list down based on tools that differentiate for student needs, simplify the teacher’s job, and entice students to use technology in learning. In a world where mashed lesson plans and flipped classrooms are becoming de rigeur, Frolyc stands out.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

I’ve written a lot lately about the benefits of using videos in your classroom. Embrace Technology in the Classroom: According to 78% of teachers, technology has a positive impact on students, and emerging technology helps classrooms keep up with the digital age. Why not put the two together?

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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. Lesson plans.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Today’s classroom requires teachers build how-to videos that are used on class websites, in flipped classrooms, and for professional development. Educators sign up, watch as many how-to videos as they’d like, create classrooms, add students, and get started. Educreations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In fact, we should use this technology to our advantage and add more ways that teachers and parents can work together face-to-face in helping every student succeed. Skype in the Classroom is a free community of educators from around the world and offers a variety of resources on getting started. Digital Citizenship.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One of the biggest indicators of a successful program is intentional technology use. Whether creating digital resources and activities or planning a large purchase of student devices, the technology should support the learning, not the other way around.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2016

digital devices for students–Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, or netbooks. staff buy-in–if teachers don’t buy into using digital tools, they will continue to print newsletters, hang paper examples of student work, and pass out paper rubrics and worksheets. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for over 15 years.

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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. by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 20, 2015

First, to ensure you do not miss a valuable post or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. A flipped infusion just might be the answer. Technology makes this very basic scenario a real possibility.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

Common Sense team members and certified educators presented on a range of practical and engaging ways to use specific technology tools for learning as well as our latest and greatest digital citizenship offerings. . DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids .

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2017

®, presented on how to continue coding in the classroom after holding an Hour of Code. James and Robin suggested trying unplugged activities that don’t require technology or devices to teach concepts of coding like sequencing, looping, and events. They also recommended tools like Kodable, Blockly Games, Hopscotch, and Scratch.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

Learning outside your primary area of study can help you make connections that may be useful when trying to help your own students see relevance beyond the classroom. 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.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 18, 2021

Figuring out how to support teachers who are doing incredible work under difficult circumstances is certainly a challenge as well. I present regionally on innovative practices in education, topics such as the flipped classroom or using social media to build relationships for families. Staffing is a concern as well.

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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. Students can learn about Digital Citizenship by creating conversations, or reply to other Synths. This is a great feature for creating classroom discussions.

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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

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!). TICAL (the Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership) is the founding partner of the conference. The Bearded Dog (a.k.a.

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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. And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. Sessions: Below is the full list of conference sessions in US-Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Welcome to the fourth post in a series designed to support the use of technology for differentiated learning… in and beyond the PBL classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

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. Next up will be one hour of Inspire Presentations, and the fun and fast-paced Technology Smackdown before the closing ceremony at 1pm EDT. Learn more at www.geo-education.org.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 29, 2015

In fact, the YouTube model of content distribution has been so successful, we took lessons from it last year and applied them to academic content distribution in How To YouTube Your Classroom. Below are a few possibilities, many of which you’ll notice apply to non-digital media as well. A Note About Student-Centering.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When and how much should students be using technology in class? What is the best way to set up my classroom for device use? How can I make sure I am protecting student privacy when using technology? Which policies and procedures will help me get the most out of teaching with technology?

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