Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in February: Subscriber Special. 100th Day of School Activities. World Read Aloud Day. Free Posters. Why Kindergartners Must Learn Tech. Math Word Problems. Shortkeys. Great Websites for Remote Teaching. Websites to Enhance Social Studies. How Fast Schould Kids Type. Keyboarding Hints.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Ransomware, poorly updated software and insider threats: When something happens, who’s ultimately responsible? According to Lenny Schad, the CIO and chief innovation officer for District Administration magazine, the answer is, “not just the IT team.” Schad, who has a background in running IT departments for school districts in the Houston area, said cybersecurity requires consistent focus by district leadership, and must focus on both preparedness and response.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 29, 2021

By Joshua Sneideman Family dinner and school success don’t seem to go together, at least not on the surface. But let me share a short story. At the school where I use to teach, the valedictorian one year was asked what the secret was to his success. His reply was incredibly insightful and has stuck with me for all these years. He said, “We very often had family dinner during which we would discuss the news of the day and share our opinions.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

This year’s TCEA Convention & Exposition promises to “explore education from every angle,” and the wide-ranging lineup of speakers and sessions bears out that description. The virtual conference happens February 1–6, with live and on-demand sessions complemented by breakouts, social events and activities such as virtual scavenger hunts.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 29, 2021

Skodel, the company pioneering student wellbeing check-ins, is now available in the App Store to give every student a voice that is heard and acted upon. Skodel was co-founded by identical twins Ian and Julian Fagan, and friend, Huon Peard. Much of Skodel was inspired by Ian’s own experiences with mental illness during his teenage years. Skodel’s Wellbeing Check-In tool is a short, online series of questions through which students can express how they feel on a weekly basis and in a confidentia

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 29, 2021

Today's post features another interesting resource packed full of educational resources to use in your instruction. Facing History is a platform that offers a wide variety of pedagogic materials to.read more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

As an educator with 30 years of experience in North Dakota’s public schools, I’ve witnessed students enter my classroom with varying degrees of readiness. In an effort to create more equitable instructional opportunities, I have started to integrate scaffolding into my regular classroom activities. According to Pauline Gibbons (2015), a scaffold is a temporary support a teacher provides to a student that enables the student to perform a task he or she would not be able to perform alone.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 29, 2021

Below is an infographic we created based on content from Google's Be Internet Awesome and more specifically from the section titled Be Internet Alert. All we did was that we took that content and.read more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

With our district demographics, it’s no secret that—to be considered a high-performing school—our students are going to have to hurdle some barriers. As a small rural district in Texas where 92 percent of students have families that are economically disadvantaged and where 68 percent of students are at risk, we place a big emphasis on social and emotional learning (SEL) and its value in the educational environment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2021

Policymakers have long understood that structural unemployment is a source of community decline. A neighborhood in which people are poor but employed, the American sociologist William Julius Wilson observed, is different from a neighborhood in which people are poor and jobless. Yet while the federal government has made substantial investments in communities through infrastructure, tax, and housing incentives, these efforts have not expanded economic opportunity for millions of American families

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

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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