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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

To students, knowing how to ‘compare and contrast’ sounds academic, not real world, but we teachers know most of life is choosing between options. Compare-contrast is an organic skill that will become part of their life skills toolkit, once they understand how to use it. The better adults are at this, the more they thrive.

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How to Find Reliable Internet Sources

Ask a Tech Teacher

They have barely learned about ‘primary sources’ and have no idea how to select unbiased ones. Perfect for international and cultural research, but they will retain their nation’s bias and interpretation of events, just as American sites have ours. These are foreign sites.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Instead, people use a digital calendar that automatically syncs life events across all of their digital devices. This should include homework, projects, student presentation, school events–everything that requires preparation. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Including families in the planning of these events can help them be invested in the classroom.

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How to Digitize School Historic Videos

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor has some ideas: 3 Effective Ways to Digitize and Preserve School’s Historical Video Recordings Each year, schools manage and process all sorts of documents and data, starting with students’ personal information and ending with events. Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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Scratch Monster Mash: A Language Arts/Technology Project

User Generated Education

I found information about how to do it at the Makey Makey blog post entitled, Scratch Coding Literacy Project Ideas for Makey Makey micro:bit Inventions. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Standards Addressed.