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Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans

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As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Whatever it is, if you can show them how to find alternatives, solve their problems, they can apply that to technology class and other classes. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you.

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Tips and Ideas for Teaching Digital Citizenship in a Hybrid Classroom

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Whether we call this hybrid, concurrent, blended learning, or something else entirely, Common Sense's Digital Citizenship Curriculum and teaching resources are designed to foster rich discussions for all students, regardless of how and where they're learning. Tip: Conduct a (revised) Socratic seminar.

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

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If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school.

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Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?

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On the day of the Socratic Seminar, they listen to classmates, challenge what they hear by building an argument based on what they have read and heard, and in so doing critically think about not only their opinions but those of classmates. The goal has nothing to do with who wins the argument but how evidence and ideas are presented.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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Every year, TpT holds a conference to share ideas with teacher-authors on how to build their stores, develop their platform, and make money off of their passion. Seminar Overview. Each of the seminars I attended (a handful of roughly five dozen offered) was filled with pithy ideas, how-tos, and problem-solving.

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Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely

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This is a how-to article from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor describing clever ways to make remote teaching work. This is all the more relevant to educators, who will need to be leading lessons, seminars and one-on-one study sessions on a daily basis. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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The Internet Can Be a Force for Good. Here’s How.

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All of this amounts to what is essentially a new frontier in society, and it’s often called “digital citizenship.” Over the summer, EdSurge sat down with one of the foremost experts on this topic: Marialice Curran, founder and executive director of the Digital Citizenship Institute. What is digital citizenship?