Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Scroll down and click “add new shortcut”. Coding–that geeky subject that confounds students and frightens teachers. Yet, kids who can code are better at logical thinking and problem solving, more independent and self-assured, and more likely to find a job when they graduate. million coding jobs and only 400,000 applicants. Grade level: 5-12.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We human beings have come a long way towards understanding the world (or probably the worlds) we are living in. In today's post I share with you this collection of 7 popular science museums as featured in Google Arts & Culture. To learn more about the museum, you may want to check its website.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Coding with pixel art. Human robot. Human algorithm. Scroll down and click “add new shortcut”. Human Robot. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Wolfram Alpha widgets. Wolfram Alpha widgets.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

In Wow in the World , hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz "share stories about the latest news in science, technology, and innovation. The podcast is hosted by award-winning music makers Andrew and Polly and covers various topics related to kids interests in areas of art, technology, music, science, and culture. Podcasts are amazing!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. What is broken that we can improve upon?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Coding with pixel art. Human robot. Human algorithm. Scroll down and click “add new shortcut”. Human Robot. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. million coding jobs and only 400,000 applicants.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

In an age of digital formats, quick texts (and the associated degradation of spelling and grammar), online content, blogs and posts, many in the education, publishing and library sectors — as well as broader cultural institutions — are wondering and worrying about the future of literature. A general decline in reading literature?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

She encourages teachers to shift their mindset from apprehension to curiosity and eagerness to learn something new. With this episode, I've created a new format for the show notes and look forward to hearing your feedback. Thanks to partners, these lessons are FREE for all K-12 schools and students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: On a cold, drizzly morning in early May, I visited an outdoor preschool program in Baltimore, Maryland, to learn about the state’s recent efforts to expand such schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Years before phrases like “fake news” and “alternative facts” made their way into the English lexicon, Alan Miller realized that a time was coming when the truth would need defending. So when his daughter, then 12, brought home 175 handwritten thank you notes from her classmates that day, Miller’s wheels started turning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. We wanted to share our passion for the liberal arts and what it can do when the community gives it the time and space it deserves. We created this course to help make that a reality.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

With 7 Challenges to choose from, students can explore a range of STEM, humanities and arts topics, and educators can access the supporting curriculum for free. WeVideo is committed to providing easy and accessible multimedia creation tools for use across education, business and personal projects.

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Neo LMS

JULY 11, 2019

As a child myself, I could feel their excitement and apprehension of learning something so new to them. Green is used because the human skin does not have green pigment so it is easier for the software to identify the main subject of a video and remove only the background. And no, we’re not talking about art or film school teachers!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s why each week we bring you a new interview or audio story on the EdSurge Podcast. Is Teaching an Art or a Science? New Book Takes a Fresh Look at ‘How Humans Learn.’. The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy. Education is complicated. How to Move From Digital Substitution to ‘Deeper Learning’. Here’s How.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These skills and practices can be used to learn topics in many disciplines. These skills and practices can be used to learn topics in many disciplines. Given its growing influence, students must be equipped with computational thinking skills to genuinely connect and contribute to our digital world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Lucinda, a Chicana high school senior, the shift to online school—while not great for completing schoolwork—created new time and space for other kinds of learning. News headlines dwell on the risks, challenges and deprivations experienced by students, crystallized in the ubiquitous phrase, “learning loss.” She was not alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Led by Wendy Crocker-Roberge since 2011, Pyne Arts is already one of Lowell’s more progressive schools. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Scroll down and click “add new shortcut”. Coding–that geeky subject that confounds students and frightens teachers. Yet, kids who can code are better at logical thinking and problem solving, more independent and self-assured, and more likely to find a job when they graduate. million coding jobs and only 400,000 applicants. Grade level: 5-12.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For many students whose lives have been upended by the pandemic and the social and racial divide roiling the nation, that charge has taken on new significance—school has become a place for processing these changes. For his project, Thomas visited and interviewed the curator of The Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A major buzzword over the last few years, digital storytelling has emerged as a new way to communicate, specifically to communicate personal stories. It is defined by its use of computer-based technology to enhance the old art of storytelling. 5 Ways to use digital storytelling in class. 5 Ways to use digital storytelling in class.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

The unknown impacts of human ingenuity, climate change and demographic shifts in an increasingly global world, among myriad other forces, ensures that the future will be unpredictable. Related: Liberal arts face uncertain future at nation’s universities. The goals of a liberal arts education are manifold.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Subscribe today! In Peter Nilsson’s classes, students use computers to help them analyze text.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In it, Aoun argues that colleges need to abandon the “false dichotomy” between science and technology and the liberal arts and to blend technical and “humanistic” learning. But that’s not enough, he told me in an interview: “You need to also focus on what we humans can do that machines cannot do.” jobs are vulnerable to automation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Summer school is a hot topic right now, for good reason. We know that remote instruction and disrupted hybrid learning during the pandemic have led to enormous learning loss , particularly for low-income students and students with learning disabilities and differences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By running the LDO, my colleagues and I have found a sense of purpose, humanity and true rehabilitation. After deportation, with no support, education or job skills, felons sometimes return to the United States, where their families reside, and can then be charged with new felonies for doing so.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Watching videos and interacting with visual media are engaging ways to help students learn. But you probably have a lot of questions: Will my district allow me to show movies in my classroom? What are the best video streaming services for schools? How does copyright law apply to schools and classrooms?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 12, 2016

It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” I first wrote about word clouds in 2010 , but six years later I’m updating the topic with updated apps, tools, and ideas. I first wrote about word clouds in 2010 , but six years later I’m updating the topic with updated apps, tools, and ideas.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

From PBS Digital Studios and KQED Education , Above the Noise offers an investigative dive -- albeit a brief one -- into the research behind a variety of popular and newsworthy topics, ranging from technology and climate science to free speech, economics, and beyond. The Art Assignment. Above the Noise. The Brain Scoop.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Teachers have said for decades that inflexibility on teaching, testing and innovation keep them from adapting to student needs. We should’ve listened. Some businesses have been able to shift to remote work without too many bumps. Many offices were arguably ready to go online. Education wasn’t, and the consequences are dire.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. This story also appeared in The Associated Press. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

My news organization, The Hechinger Report, recognized the importance of Hanford’s reporting and immediately republished a print version of the story. The debate has elicited passions, vindication for proponents of phonics and distress for defenders of a so-called “balanced” approach to reading instruction.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

There were a lot of big questions and a lot of big ideas at #DLNchat on Tuesday, March 27 when special guest Bryan Fendley, Director of Academic Computing at University of Arkansas, Monticello, guided our discussion: How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education? Now that's an idea. DLNChat I would say often.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S. Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 9, 2020

Today, Thursday, July 9 at 4:00 pm US-EDT, we present the tenth LIVE episode of the new LearningRevolution.com weekly interview series, REINVENTING SCHOOL. Our topic is one of the most important aspects of growing up--playing with friends, playing with peers, playing with family members, making new friends through play, learning through play.

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