Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Open Library.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

What does E-rate have to do with digital citizenship? USAC online training video series. Other USAC E-rate video resources. Through E-rate, your school or library can receive support to purchase communication services and other technological products. What services are eligible to receive discounts under E-rate?

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the classroom A quick refresher This series of videos will give you a refresher on Hāpara tools or help you get acquainted with them if you’re new to Hāpara. Make a copy for your personal Workspace library if you’d like to save one and use it this year. Or you can send a message to the class or a group of learners.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. Several educators echo Yates’ comments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In fact, knowledge is often acquired via audio, video, role-playing, and other approaches that address the varied learning styles of today’s students. One communication method that has seriously grown up from even a generation ago is video. Let’s start with five clever video edit/format tools: EdPuzzle. Vialogues .

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. Then, have everyone copy their information to a digital magazine (like you can create in Canva or Adobe) and share it with everyone. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Teachers, group coordinators and team members can leave comments and chat. Read more: 4 Ways to promote collaboration in digital spaces. Sway offers easy editing, like drop-in photos, videos, and other multimedia files. Pear Deck offers a library of templates from which teachers can choose to support the learning objectives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. Then, have everyone copy their information to a digital magazine (like you can create in Canva or Adobe) and share it with everyone. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fun Facts About Groundhogs –video. Groundhog Day Digital Activities –grades 3-5. Groundhog Day for Kids –a video. Why Groundhogs Supposedly Predict the Weather –video. Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. Groundhog Day Games. Who was president?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2022

In the past, I’ve written about many of Kiddom’s features–the Content Library , SEL Rubrics, its partnership with OUR Curricula Resources to name a few, One quality that has always stood out to me as I explore each of their new features is this company listens to customers and responds to their needs. Want a little more?

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Watching videos and interacting with visual media are engaging ways to help students learn. What are the best video streaming services for schools? How can I find movies and videos that are appropriate for school? And of course, how can I help my students learn as much as possible from movies and videos?

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Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

April is School Library Month and it brings an opportunity to highlight the work done and impact made by librarians and media specialists. First sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association (ALA), it originally got its start after the creation of the National Book Committee, a non-profit organization in 1954.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 2, 2022

You’ve known analog whiteboards for years and already used interactive whiteboards, but chances are you still wonder: what is a digital whiteboard? The applications are many and can help leverage group learning, content sharing, and team effort. The digital whiteboard encourages applying diverse multimedia.

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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 25, 2018

Before rolling any of these out, preview them all to be sure they fit your unique student group: BrainPop –with the BrainPop characters, a launchpad to curiosity. CoolKidFacts –kid-friendly videos, pictures, info, and quizzes–all 100% suitable for children. SqoolTube Videos –educational videos for Prek-12.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In any number of homes and schools across the nation, students are more comfortable with using digital devices than many adults. In this lesson plan, students will teach a group of seniors how to use common technology to help them manage their life and relationships better. Each group will include an adult supervisor.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Players pick their NFL team and the opponent, the level of difficulty, skill level, their age-group, and the length of play. Age group: High school. With this free real-time streaming stock market game, students set up accounts or join an existing group. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

APRIL 16, 2015

The topic was " Digital Citizenship - how does your library program promote it at your school? " We use @CommonSenseEdu Digital Passport https://t.co/r3kFSMGkPr r3kFSMGkPr #tlchat — Nikki D Robertson (@NikkiDRobertson) April 14, 2015 I offer Tech Tues PD sessions online w/1to1 or small group sessions on request https://t.co/ymMCq491l7

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Students learn specific skills assigned by the teacher (to a group or individual) by playing age-appropriate, intuitive games based on appealing characters and fun interactions. Online Reading –when the classroom library isn’t available, use one of the many online libraries or story collections to inspire reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 17, 2018

Mix it up: Try using different formats such as: workshops, individual coaching, just in time, drop in hours, presentations during staff meetings/department meetings, or developing a video library or channel. Think of interesting titles such as: Digital Citizenship for Today, Using Social Media to Teach or Mastering Emerging EdTech.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. Then, have everyone copy their information to a digital magazine (like you can create in Canva or Adobe) and share it with everyone. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2018

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. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

Add videos of you discussing a project or welcoming them in the morning. Amazing Education Resources –sorted by topic and age group. GetEpic –Digital library for kid’s books. When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline. How do I make online learning personal?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2018

All across the nation, school, teachers, students, libraries, and families celebrate by reading, writing, and sharing poetry. Share them with students on a class link page, Symbaloo, or another method you’ve chosen to share groups of websites with students: Acrostic Poems. Video of a Shel Silverstein poem. Word Mover.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Aside from future jobs, there are great reasons why even kids who want to become doctors or lawyers (or farmers) would benefit from learning the lesson of app building: Apps teach real-world skills like design, marketing, video production, project management, presentation skills, and special media use. Thunkable (a curriculum). App Inventor.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

The courses are the latest addition to Vector’s award-winning library of Student Safety & Wellness Courses. The short online video lessons help schools teach and promote discussions about important safety, wellness, and social and emotional learning topics that have a big impact on individual students and the school community. “Our

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Click here for more detail and a how-to video. Click here for more detail and a how-to video. Users create a recipe by choosing a trigger channel from IFTTT’s library, then a trigger, and finally an action channel. Though the video shows how to make the dough, you don’t have to do that. Grade level: 5-12.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Group Assignments into Collections for ease of use. This not only helps measure where students might have problems but which assignments are too difficult/easy for the student group. I’m a visual learner so would love a few more explainer videos to walk me through functions. Click to view slideshow. What I like.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 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. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2020

Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. Then, have everyone copy their information to a digital magazine (like you can create in Canva or Adobe) and share it with everyone. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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Adobe Learning Exercises Digital Citizenship 227

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2017

All across the nation, school, teachers, students, libraries, and families celebrate by reading, writing, and sharing poetry. Share them with students on a class link page like the class internet start page, Symbaloo, or another method you’ve chosen to share groups of websites with students: Acrostic Poems. Word Mover.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. Review the teacher resources on the educator dashboard. Begin the first quest.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They can be done individually or in small groups. Introduce each of these activities by watching “I Like Programming “, a video that discusses why the great programmers of our time fell in love with this activity. Preview them first to pick the one best suited to your student group. Divide the class into groups.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 16, 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. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Open Library. Mighty Book.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 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. Sunday, June 8th at 4pm Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship - Seeing the Big Picture , with Dr. Jason Ohler.

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