Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 4, 2021

Subscriber Special. Until January 18th: Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans. Two lesson plans to prepare for Martin Luther King Day in January: 1) Students research events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s impact on American history and share them with an Event Chain organized visually, including pictures and thought bubbles. 2) Students interpret the words of Dr.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2021

In one of my favorite sections of The Passionate Learner , Robert Fried says: If we are to act boldly on behalf of passionate learners, we will have to stop wasting so much time in school. Most teachers and students waste 50 percent or more of their time in school. I say this with no disrespect. There are, of course, various ways of wasting time we all acknowledge as such: Teachers trying to get the class to settle down so the lesson can begin.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2021

By Amy Valentine There’s always a crisis in education. Covid-19 is the most recent and most significant, and it has challenged our education system in innumerable ways. But before the pandemic, there were already various challenges, both urgent and ongoing?the digital divide, lack of access in rural areas, weather-related disruptions, overcrowded classrooms, understaffed school buildings, bullying, and many more.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 4, 2021

2020 was, among many things, a year of firsts. The first time a non-English language movie, Parasite, won Best Picture at the Oscars. The first time millions of people stopped their daily commute and set up a home office, classroom, or waited to resume their jobs and typical routines. The first Black Vice President, the first Asian-American Vice President, and the first female Vice President elected in the United States – Senator Kamala Harris.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2021

It’s halfway through the academic year, and schools across the United States are still wrestling with how to keep students enthusiastic about learning through a computer screen. According to a recent survey of high school students, more than half ( 54 percent ) reported being less engaged during remote learning than during in-person classes. In a virtual environment, educators are continually competing with diversions that aren’t present in the classroom, such as social media, television, and vi

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2021

Below is a collection of some of the best educational Chrome extensions that stand out from the numerous extensions we reviewed during 2020. These are tools that will boost your (online).read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2021

A few days ago, I received an email from a teacher inquiring about a Chrome extension that helps change the layout in video calls made on Google Meet. What this teacher and probably several other.read more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2021

Let’s face it: pandemic learning is stressful and exhausting. There is truly no getting away from the fact that trying to engage in any activity that requires maximum brain activity (ahem: teaching and learning) is extra hard while we are trying to survive any kind of trauma. So it is imperative that we come up with ways to lighten our mental load in order to survive, much less thrive.

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 4, 2021

Regular readers of this site know that I am big fan of raising awareness and proficiency with soft skills. This was one of several thinga about this guest post that caught my eye. – KW If you. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 4, 2021

Copious fiction and nonfiction reading can make most teachers better teachers, writes principal and former reading specialist and librarian Rita Platt, by modeling the joy and power of reading in our own lives. Rita shares two dozen multi-genre favorites she read this year.

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The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2021

2020 will be recorded in the history books as a year of deep tragedies, inequities and heartache. We hope it will also be remembered as the year education broke free of the four walls of our school buildings and embraced the healthy, fresh air outside. This year, the fields of outdoor learning and green schoolyards reached a tipping point, as thousands of schools around the country took their chairs, desks and easels—and log stumps, straw bales, picnic blankets and Wi-Fi—outside, to study under

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