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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths. WIKI – What I Know I Learnt. FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). UX – User Experience.

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Thinking processes and STEM

Kathy Schrock

The hundreds of quality STEM-related videos and materials in the Discovery Education online collection make it easy to find content to use for your lessons and units. However, take time for students to develop a solid thinking process before starting your STEM unit. After you read about each model, ask yourself the following questions.

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Students Who Make Apps

The CoolCatTeacher

Two teams already have their apps live on the iTunes and Google Play app stores: #iCare and #Drone Zone. Here’s our wiki page on the event. . (A few more tickets might be available.) The trailers of the three teams are shown below. They’ll be presenting about their apps and ideas.

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Bring Focus to Blended Learning with 12 Starting Ideas… Plus a Free ISTE Webinar

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Perhaps this could be an art gallery, blog, wiki, video, or their idea. I have done 100?s

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Part 3: Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom… Questions, Process, Metacognition, and 15 Pre-search Tools

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

In other words, it may not be Google-able. The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning “quick”) and encyclopedia. As students record these words they may also wish to figure out meanings with a simple Google (define:) search.

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11 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

I include Prezi, Google MapMaker, Scratch, Voice Thread, Glogster, and Tagxedo, These will be tools they don’t know how to use (and maybe you don’t either). Have them work in teams and blog about their progress–problems they faced, how they solved them.This is a fun STEM activity that students will mistake for a game.

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10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

I include Prezi, Google MapMaker, Scratch, Voice Thread, Glogster, ScribbleMap, and Tagxedo, These will be tools they don’t know how to use (and maybe you don’t either). If you never serve food in your lab, do it for these presentations. Here are my favorite year-end Change-up activities: 6 Webtools in 6 Weeks. Group discussion.