Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Zapzapmath is a free gamified ecosystem that teaches math skills aligned with many national and international standards. Its format is engaging, music lively, and layout colorful. The over 180 games spanning 900 difficulty levels are fast-paced and interactive and cover over 180 math topics. Zapzapmath has been awarded a plethora of education accolades and is ranked in the top 10 of the education category in 58 countries including the US and China.No surprise when you look at all the topics in

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The focus of developing today’s tech trends is turning to the youngest of learners.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

50 Of The Best Quotes About Teaching by TeachThought Staff Teaching is both an art and science. Teaching is conceptual and intellectual, abstract and concrete, creative and sequential. It’s about people but framed through ideas. It’s about content, hearts, minds, the past, the future–whatever we can imagine, teaching and learning are both causes […].

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Education have recently announced their intent to host a joint workshop on ‘Student Privacy and Ed Tech.’ About this workshop and related work, they write : The use of “Ed Tech” has exploded over the past several years. More than half of K-12 students have access to a school-issued personal computing device, and in many school districts, online curriculum is becoming the norm.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Twenty-three leaders from 17 League of Innovative Schools districts attended the Ed-Fi Summit in Austin, TX, in early October to share and gain insight on advancing their work in achieving data interoperability. From large districts including San Francisco Unified School District and Baltimore County Public Schools, to smaller districts including Lindsay Unified School District and Stephenville Independent School District , League leaders came to deepen their understanding of data interoperabili

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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

About 90 percent of an iceberg is underwater. Like an iceberg, what reluctant adopters say may only be 10 percent of what they’re feeling. For anyone that encourages educators to try something new — especially with tech — there are responses that we often hear … I’m not tech-savvy. I don’t have the time to […].

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EdTech4Beginners

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

SkillSurvey’s online reference checking makes the list of top technology tools staffing companies should have in their arsenal to stay ahead.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Libraries have long counted up the books on their shelves to show their value. That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million books) was clearly superior to Duke University’s (with 6.1-million volumes) or University of California at Riverside’s (with a mere 3 million titles). These days, though, libraries are finding new ways to measure their worth.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

November 17, 2017 Below is a collection of some good iPad apps you can use for photo or video journalling. Whether you want to immortalize those teachable moments that stand out to you the most or.read more.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Honored products from this year include innovative applications that break new ground as well as those that added significant enhancements to proven education tools. A panel of T&L advisors who teste.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

November 17, 2017 Trading Card Creator is a web tool from ReadWriteThink that you can use with your students for various educational purposes most important of them all is to help them enhance their.read more.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

It’s time for one of my favorite projects of the year: Student Book Budget. Every year, I reserve a part of the library budget that is under complete control by students. This budget comes from many places. Sometimes it’s a grant and other times it is part of our regular budget. This year their budget comes from the profit we made from book fair.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Good Credit, Bad Credit: 3 Ways Credit Scores Can Affect Students contributed by Jenna Wilson For better or for worse, we live in a credit-driven economy. As such, your credit score is one of the most important numbers connected to your finances. That one number can dictate your ability to make large purchases, among many […]. The post Good Credit, Bad Credit: 3 Ways Credit Scores Can Affect Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Gimlet is a excellent new site for creating quiz style games that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's great blog. Gimlet reminds me a lot of Kahoot where a teacher creates a quiz (or converts a Quizlet), has students join on their device via unique code and then take the quiz. A teacher can see all student's results in real-time and then differentiate instruction.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Guided lessons focus on the brain, encourage a growth mindset.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Storyboard That the amazing site that educators are using for creating timelines, graphic organizers, digital stories, storyboards, project based learning, and much much more, just released their Illustrated Guides. These one cell storyboards are great for teaching any number of subjects such as: Mythology, Literature, History, and more. I highly recommend checking out Storyboard That's Illustrated Guides by clicking here !!!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Sketch Nation the amazing free web tool or mobile app (iOS/Android) has just released their latest update to bring new exciting features to game creation. Students can now create a multiplayer "platform" game in their new "Arena". Also, users now have the ability to upload their own sound effects or music to add into a game, Here are more details regarding Version 4.2. * Side Running, Arena and Platformer now have double jump as an option. * All genres now have a powerup duration slider for chan

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Though I deeply enjoy my infrequent, often protracted conversations with Stephen – and find them deeply useful for clarifying and advancing my own thinking – I believe this one has just about run its course. Stephen has posted Four Conclusions on OERs he has drawn from our conversation. This will be my final post as well, and I’ll make only a few concluding points.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Answerables the innovative educational tool that combines the best features of game based learning w/ a learning management system has just released their free iPad app. Answerables is being used by educators in a variety of ways from collaborating w/ other classes, to browsing the web, all in a secure 3D virtual environment. Answerables is used as a: • Virtual classroom • Lesson planner • Learning manager • Quest creator • Resource manager • Web browser (managed) • Social Network • Student port

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. And that is saying a lot. “The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students ,” says Erin Rousseau in The New York Times. “ House Republicans on Thursday pushed through tax reform legislation widely opposed by higher education leaders who say many of i

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

EDpuzzle is the amazing learning tool that educators everywhere are using to flip their classroom, assess student learning, differentiate instruction, and much much more. This is done by adding questions to a video and modifying it to make it work for YOU. Best of all, are the wide range of lessons and resources that are available for students and educators.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

MathScienceMusic.org is a innovative site that I just found out about from renowned educator, Shelly Terrell. This is a fantastic site for educators looking to teach STEM concepts such as: Coding, Math, and More, all through the use of music and other resources. This is done by watching videos to see how these concepts are taught and what resources are being used w/ them (i.e.

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