Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2020

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: Mouse Skills. –for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. 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.

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Digital Promise

JULY 22, 2020

We know that teachers need coaches ; among other outcomes, coaching can improve teacher practice and student engagement and learning. But when the COVID-19 school closures necessitated parents, guardians, and caregivers to step in as teachers for their children, many schools’ instructional coaches switched gears and extended their coaching efforts to those adults.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

I have a new 4 Shifts Video Series. I am trying to replicate – as best as I can virtually while sitting in my office chair! – a half-day workshop with me around the 4 Shifts Protocol. The series consists of 7 self-paced modules and includes 38 videos, 7 lesson redesign opportunities, 6 additional instructional redesign scenarios, and other suggestions, strategies, and resources.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2020

When Westfield Washington Schools in Indiana unexpectedly shut its doors in mid-March due to COVID-19, high school chemistry teacher Kevin Morse had to find a new way to deliver his hands-on curriculum. Although he’s had to adapt lesson plans and assignments for e-learning days before, teaching students remotely over a longer period of time was a larger mountain to climb.

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JULY 22, 2020

With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. For Ryan Baker, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center of Learning Analytics, there is one thing in particular he’d like school leaders to keep in mind: providing better tech support for students and famil

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2020

Dynamics of digital instruction, learning outcomes and equitable access can be complex, with no one-size-fits-all approach. As researchers learn more about best practices, educators are tasked with putting their findings into practice — a job harder than it sounds. Now, districts are confronting new challenges around equity and screen time as they seek to deliver remote instruction.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership During a Crisis. As I said in my last post about this class , my six students have been co-creating the class with me…. In addition to helping identify readings and multimedia for us to look at before each class session, my students also have taken the lead on identifying guest speakers to come talk with us about crisis leadership.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And perform worse on tests. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 22, 2020

Google Classroom is designed for students to find their work. There is no ability to give parents the ability to see the Classwork page other than the student showing it to them. If you would like to communicate with parents the list of assignments I have coded a way to extract the assignments list from […]. The post Google Classroom: Give Parents a List of Assignments appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 22, 2020

Learning math can be a great source of fun for kids. There is a wide variety of entertaining and interactive online games to use with your kids to introduce them to basic as well as.

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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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MiddleWeb

JULY 22, 2020

How can social studies teachers sufficiently teach about systemic racism and oppression without making this lens the only way students see history and its connections to current events? Sarah Cooper and Lauren Brown continue their chat about teaching U.S. History in 2020.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 22, 2020

A new study looks at what percentage of state and district adoptions of curricular materials created on open licenses, which allow resources to be freely shared and re-used. The post How Much of the K-12 Market Is Using Open Educational Resources? appeared first on Market Brief.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 22, 2020

And in the extended metaphor, kids aren’t sent to the principal’s office, they’re born there. They’ve never even seen the actual classroom. The post A Surprisingly Practical Extended Metaphor About Inequality In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 22, 2020

Can you track the location of a cell phone just by its number? There are only two legitimate ways to do so: You can use a phone lookup service to locate any phone in a general area. You can.read more.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

While the coronavirus highlights the pernicious crisis of mass incarceration, and mass protests highlight our dangerously outdated and racially biased penal system, we can’t help but notice that one solution isn’t included in the conversations often enough: higher education. With 2.3 million people currently behind bars and 77 million people with criminal records in the United States, a college degree is an investment with tangible returns.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

Revising in response to formative feedback is a cornerstone of effective writing instruction. Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. As a result, teachers can be reluctant to assign many essays that require students to produce multiple drafts or provide extensive comments on early drafts of students’ writing.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 22, 2020

As teachers across the U.S. prepare for online and blended learning, more and more schools are relying on Google Classroom and Google Meet to deliver online lessons and assignments. In this post, I will share how to integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet. Kudos to Google for stepping up to the plate during the 2020 school closures and giving us many free features and updates to help teachers, students, and parents.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

“America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went” was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters. This spring, America’s schools underwent an unprecedented experiment: tens of millions of students stopped going into school , and instead began receiving instruction remotely.

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Buncee

JULY 22, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools worldwide temporarily closed their doors. During these school closures, educators have been striving to find alternative methods to keep their students engaged and connected, so that the students would still be able to learn. “ If you’re looking for a way to help your students, Buncee is a great option for remote learning. “ A Malaysian educator, Goh Kok Ming, who recently serves at one of the Under-Enrolled Schools in Perak, Malaysia, found Bunc

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2020

By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. While reopening plans for many school districts remain uncertain, a growing number of districts are planning to open remotely or use a hybrid model in which only some students are in an actual school building each day. Optimizing student learning under these circumstances is likely to be difficult, but a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by EveryDay Labs, identified potential solutions and featured a discussion between Angela Duckworth, Founder

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JULY 22, 2020

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 22, 2020

Many schools are now realizing they do not have the tools in place so kids can continue to learn while schools are closed. Socrates personalized learning for the students so they are progressing automatically, and provides teachers with tools to monitor progress and assign topics. Teachers can control the learning remotely or just allow Socrates to adjust automatically - making it a perfect tool for teachers with closed classrooms.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2020

We have four Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" took the week off). Times are US-Eastern Daylight Time--to see the schedule in your own time zone, and to get the links to attend live in Zoom, please use the SCHEDULE page on the Learning Revolution site. WEDNESDAY'S SHOWS (July 22) : 10:00 AM - The Connected Classroom with Rusty May - "Creating A Climate of Trust & Support" with Guest Josh St.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 22, 2020

Wooclap is an excellent learning tool that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog that is ideal for Distance Learning. Wooclap is a tool that reminds me a lot of Kahoot, where a teacher can create a poll/quiz and students can respond in real-time from their mobile device. Best of all, Wooclap has lots of robust features that set it apart from their competition such as: 20+ ways to interact w/ their audience, integrates w/ most LMS, Keynote, PPT, Google Slides, etc, free for education,

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Think Exam

JULY 22, 2020

Traditional or online examinations conducted by any schools, colleges, institutes or companies play a major role in evaluating an individual. However, many students/candidates tend to cheat in the examination which questions their credibility. Cheating is an unfair activity that is followed by many individuals to clear their exams. It gives a. The post How Does Remote Proctoring Work and the Need For it!

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Dan Farsaci Like campers to a crackling fire, district leaders will want to draw close to hear how Liverpool Central School District in New York slipped seamlessly into remote learning while hundreds of districts nationwide struggled to make the switch. With nearly 7,000 students and 700 teachers, Liverpool had never tackled remote learning before March 23, 2020.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice. As I said in my last post about this class , my six students have been co-creating the class with me… We have continued to approach the class through a variety of social justice lenses. After an initial focus on anti-racist school leadership, we broadened our lens the next week to take a look at culturally responsive-sustaining teaching and leadership.

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2020

This story about child care was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. AUSTIN, Texas — When Emma Mancha-Sumners saw her school district’s proposed schedule for remote learning this fall, she knew it wouldn’t work for her or her kids.

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2020

There’s an experiment Sonia Livingstone had always dreamed of doing. She’s a social psychologist at the London School of Economics who researches children and media. And her dream experiment was this: “Let’s turn off the outside world and see how it is if you’ve only got the technology.” During the pandemic, it kind of happened.

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