Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2021

Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts. Why change passwords.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 19, 2024

Word Processing and Document Collaboration: Google Docs : Known for its simplicity and real-time collaboration features. It’s great for creating beautifully designed documents and integrates well with other Apple products. It’s a valuable tool for refining essays, emails, and even social media posts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2020

Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts. Why change passwords.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Can you imagine what a student thinks when trying to study? Online ads and social media channels can be greater reasons for procrastination than the fridge or noisy roommates. Being online while studying can be very distracting. Even when having the best intentions, students can get off track when studying online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Data Analytics.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2011

Social media now makes it even easier to get all of this exciting information out to my stakeholders via our Twitter account and Facebook page. The following are some highlights from February: My Media Specialist (Linda Keesing) and History Teacher (Joe Manzo) collaborated recently to integrate Web 2.0 Perna and Ms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

The document notes gaps in privacy laws surrounding the use of one-to-one notebooks, which allows school officials to access computers without notice or consent from students or parents. Social media continues to be a contentious space with murky boundaries between what’s public and private. “Is Yes, that is very important.

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Buncee

JULY 30, 2018

And to ring in the new school year, we here at Buncee are bringing you ideas and inspiration on ways you can enhance your social studies lessons with Buncee! One way to use Buncee in your social studies lesson is to have your students make their own maps. Idea #3: Document and Analyze Resources.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2015

A good example would be how Facebook and Twitter have incorporated common like/favorite and share/retweet buttons. This way, learning becomes more fun and engaging because both students and teachers are greeted with a socialized and friendly LMS. And of course, features are also based on market trends.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leveraging social media to teach students has been a huge win for me in the classroom. I’m forever grateful that Tara Martin taught us all how to annotate text through social media. . Students watch you annotate over the document camera then try it on their own in a printed story with highlighters and some color pens.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

For better or worse, many of us spend our idle minutes scrolling through Facebook , Instagram , or Twitter to see what’s happening in the world. We’ve learned how to curate what we see on social media to match our needs and interests. Bringing social media into our classrooms may sound daunting.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more. When integrated into classroom instruction, these videos reveal for students the wonders of our natural world.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In any Google Doc, use the keyboard shortcut, Control + Shift + 8 (Command + Shift + 8 on a Mac), to add a bullet to your document. It works very similarly to the apps and extensions mentioned above, but it allows you to talk your work directly into your document. Join our FREE Shake Up Learning Facebook group. Use your tools!

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

(September 13, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today it has added new digital assets to its services that boost teachers’ ability to engage students in a variety of subjects including Science, STEM, and Social Studies.

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ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

" " Online Ad Targeting Does Work — As Long As It’s Not Creepy ," by Louise Matsakis ( Wired ) : "If you click on the right-hand corner of any advertisement on Facebook, the social network will tell you why it was targeted to you.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2022

And I use it every year because when we do novel studies, we get an envelope, write the novel's name on the outside of the envelope, and start getting three by five cards. So when I was going to pass out the documents, one of my students said, “I don't think I have the right paper.” And I said, “Oh, no. I said, What do you have?”

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are perfect for when you need to compare documents, are grading papers, or are doing research for a lesson plan or project. He’s written and co-authored several books on the subject and has spent more than two decades studying the fields of professional learning and instructional coaching. . The Instructional Coaching Guru.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 21, 2020

Documenting experiments and processes with Google Photos and Video. Post your answer to your favorite social media platform using the hashtag #ShakeUpLearning, or share it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook ! The Shake Up Learning Book Study. Don’t miss our next book study! Get the details here.

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techlearning

JUNE 13, 2018

Study the Scientist profiles the roles of ornithologists, botanists, hydrologists, fire archaeologists, and more interesting science careers at Yosemite National Park. Each subject area includes primary source documents and activities, digital investigations, multimedia reference library, interactive maps, and more.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media posts people write for family, friends, or business. Business writers writing case studies, reports, presentations, and other documents. Grammarly for Microsoft Office offers real-time grammar detection when creating Microsoft Word documents or writing an Outlook email.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 11, 2016

Remind sends notifications or materials (photos, documents, presentations, voice records) to individual students or a group within a few seconds, and these messages are available on anydevice. Teachers and students can use Dropbox for sharing study materials. Keep them at hand so you could quickly access your study materials.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 13, 2018

Edmodo - One of the most popular social media sites/communities around that educators are using to connect find resources and connect w/ peers, students, parents, and more in a safe educational environment. Facebook -nuff said!! Google Plus - Is the highly publicized social network by Google.

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MindShift

JANUARY 21, 2020

That’s a record number, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. Falling behind on technology puts seniors at risk for social isolation, which makes them vulnerable to poor health and earlier death. A study by AARP found isolation is associated with nearly $7 billion in additional annual spending by Medicare.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Here''s a few ideas for you to consider: 1) Lecturers can make sure they maintain dialogue with their students through participation in social media sites. That never worked in the student bar and it won''t work on Facebook. When I''m invited in to a Facebook group or Google Hangout, I tend to lurk until asked a direct question.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 16, 2012

The trouble stems from Apps that, instead of storing their help documentation locally on the device, pull in their help documentation from the web. Note: I understand that many educators are advocates of teaching students to browse the web safely instead of blocking access to social media and other potentially useful tools.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Last week I laid out 3 Untapped Social Media Resources for Teachers. This week we take a look at how to leverage social networks for students. She is right in the heart of the age range for kids who use social media the most (13-18 yrs old). Most of her time is spent on Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

RISD educators across the Berkner Feeder Pattern will use Discovery Education’s award-winning Science Techbook , Math Techbook , and Social Studies Techbook , as well as the Discovery Education Streaming Plus and STEM Connect services as core instructional resources supporting the “Future Ready: STEM for All” initiative.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And we made ample use of social media technology to have meaningful learning discussions asynchronously. This trip was most directly valued by members because they actually saw and collected data on what they had been studying and acting on in their projects.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

This article, “ Unintended Consequences ,” was first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 Jamie Glenn, chief executive of a once-hot social media startup, was between a rock and a hard place. In 2010, the potential of social media was not widely understood.

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Nik Peachey

MARCH 15, 2014

If you want to include specific words or phrases from a word document or PDF, you can also just type in the words or phrases you want to include in your phrasebooks, but if you save them from the web then Phraseum also stores a link back to the original source, so you can go back and see how the word or phrase is used in context.

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Reading By Example

JULY 4, 2018

If I had a magic wand, I would wave it over the hearts and minds of educators everywhere so they could see that there is a simple way to help their students to be better readers, to love reading, and to grow and learn academically and in their social-emotional lives. Note: The three mentioned documents are here (1), here (2), and here (3).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

To harness student passion without bogging down in partisan muck, teachers are wielding a bevy of ed-tech tools — ranging from online role-playing games and issue quizzes to social media platforms where teachers share strategies for leading political discussions and students collaborate to try to influence public policy.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 7, 2020

I would also like to personally invite you to join one of the Shake Up Learning book studies that we conduct throughout the year. It’s an easy way to document goals and revisit them on a regular basis. The Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook. Shake Up Learning Book Study. Easy Lesson Plan Makeovers for Your Classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 11, 2019

Number the assignment and detail the choices in the directions and/or in an attached (view only) document. Novel Study Tic-Tac-Toe. Post your answer to your favorite social media platform using the hashtag #ShakeUpLearning, or share it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook ! [34:35] Chrome PD Tic-Tac-Toe.

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techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

New episodes of Science Channel’s Secrets of the Underground are now live in Discovery Education Streaming Plus and the Social Studies Techbook. Each subject area includes primary source documents and activities, digital investigations, multimedia reference library, interactive maps, and more.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 29, 2015

More than once, a relative referenced a picture and/or comment one of us made on Facebook (usually about our kids). We shared a laugh about the event that we would not have known without social media. A5: If schools leverage the power of @twitter @facebook @RemindHQ the rest of connectedness will take care of itself #satchatoc.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

Among the new resources soon to be available to district middle and high school educators are, Discovery Education’s innovative Science , Math , and Social Studies Techbook s. The Discovery Education Community will also support all HCS teachers’ efforts to transform students’ learning experiences with dynamic digital media.

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