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MARCH 11, 2024

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Here’s a poster with the strategies.

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APRIL 12, 2024

I–like many teachers–do a lot of prep for my teaching, often requiring digital desktop publishing platforms. What is it Creative Fabrica is a digital marketplace out of Amsterdam that offers a wide range of creative resources for designers, crafters, creators, and to my specific area of interest–teachers.

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MARCH 19, 2024

The host thought it would be a yawner, but any tech teacher knows keyboarding is a controversial subject. Why is it a ‘hot topic’ with parents? On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , posts about keyboarding are read about thrice as often as any other topic. How do I teach keyboarding? The list goes on.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Curiosity is the trigger for intrinsic motivation, which pushes students to wonder, ask questions, and of course, discover new things. Teachers can create curiosity in students by posing interesting questions, involving students in real-life problems, and letting them experiment with the subject on their own.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We choose KidPix because it is user friendly, easily understood, and doesn’t clutter up the screen with anything other than what new graphic artists need. There are a lot of graphic art options for youngers. Click on image to enlarge if it’s blurry. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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MARCH 31, 2024

–image credit Deposit Photo #WorldBackupDay In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is a traditional Chinese festival that marks the beginning of the Chinese lunar calendar. During Chinese New Year, people welcome the new year and engage in activities that bring good luck. The celebration usually lasts for 15 days.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

If you’re new to Ask a Tech Teacher, be sure to click Getting Started first. Some free, most fee Go ahead–check it out! –image credit Deposit Photos Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A lot of teacher-authors read both my education blog (this one–Ask a Tech Teacher) and my writer’s blog (WordDreams). The field as of this date is too new to be definitive so I don’t yet feel threatened. This is a big topic. My column is: What’s happening in the literary world? I may be naïve.

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MARCH 21, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence is the topic of conversation for anyone who cares about learning, scholarship, and the future of our world, and rightly so. The job losses are supposed to be staggering. And many AI companies aren't helping.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Al Kingsley’s My Secret EdTech Diary (John Cott Educational 2021) is a big-goaled, meandering overview of edtech (educational technology) available and pertinent to teachers and students. Chapters are collections of the author’s thoughts offered as you might in, say, a diary, topics like: Lessons learned with EdTech (i.e.,

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JUNE 28, 2023

In the past few months, ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence have dominated national and international headlines and become a hot topic among K–12 teachers. At ISTELive 23 in Philadelphia, teachers learned about a new large language model AI designed specifically for education. To stay up to date on all the…

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Substitute teachers, like teachers, are heroes. As I wrote in “ There is No Substitute for Great Substitute Teachers ,” when we need a substitute, it is rarely planned. In this post, I'm going to guide you through this process.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

To overcome these limitations, teachers can identify the instruction that they would present the same way for all students and create video instruction. Some teachers do not assign homework. Teachers can integrate video instruction into class using playlists , choice boards , or as an online station in a station rotation lesson.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Chat GPT is popular among teachers for lots of reasons. When we asked the Ask a Tech Teacher team to apply it specifically to teaching physical education–not something we usually think of with tech tools–they came up with these great ideas: Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies!

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

As teachers prepare for a new school year, many are brushing up on their video production skills. Teachers know there will be times when they will need to lean on videos to allow students to access information asynchronously. Video has several benefits in a blended or online course.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Why Would a Teacher Use the Flipped Classroom Model? auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. I caution teachers not to do this.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Go to View-macro-record macro Call the macro ‘MLA Heading’ and select ‘Keyboard’ Add your selected keyboard shortcut to ‘Press new shortcut key’ and click ‘Assign’, then ‘Close’ Your mouse becomes a cassette tape. Test it to be sure it doesn’t bring up some other shortcut.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll accomplish in the New Year. New readers: Consider these body armor in the tech battle so you can jubilantly overcome rather than dramatically succumb. Adding new publications or items efriends would like to know about?

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JANUARY 1, 2024

If you click it, you enter Public Domain Review’s website and can then explore each of these new sources of inspiration, free to use. According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2024: The picture above is interactive on the website.

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MAY 16, 2023

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. Choose a Topic The first step in writing a research paper is to pick an assignment topic that interests you.

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MARCH 3, 2023

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Share it in the comments below.

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JUNE 30, 2023

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Type the question into Google and push send.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 11, 2024

Post by EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Driscoll Of all the challenges that AI tools can help teachers address, differentiation and lesson design is at (or at least near) the top of the list! During all of my recent AI-themed professional development workshops, teachers are impressed with how simple AI prompts (i.e. ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot).

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JUNE 9, 2022

Offer a list of topics. Give, say, ten minutes to debate among themselves and choose a topic. support claim with clear reasons and relevant evidence, demonstrating understanding of topic. Additionally, student groups are expected to: develop three reasons for and three against the topic, and how to refute each.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Grasping New Concepts: Storing past information helps assimilate new topics. Language Acquisition: If you’re pursuing a new language or delving into technical terminologies , improved memory can expedite your mastery. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to. We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher. New School Year? 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers. 5 Ways Teachers Can Stay on Top of Technology. BTS resources.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Shout out to my principal, Jonathan Dyal, and math teacher, Matthew Sheets, who work with me for their advice and thoughts as I crafted this post. I'd like to add this as another day of learning about AI and HI in education as I spend the majority of my time digging into and teaching on this topic.

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APRIL 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What if you could create multiple choice questions inside ChatGPT and then export into Gimkit? In this post, I will demonstrate how I helped our science teacher create some questions in ChatGPT. I'll do a separate post for science teachers on another day!)

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MARCH 13, 2023

This is a topic every teacher I know is talking about. In search of answers, we asked education psychologists, technologists, and teachers how artificial intelligence help make learning recovery more effective and less stressful. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

New School Year? 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers. 5 Ways Teachers Can Stay on Top of Technology. 5 FREE Web Tools for a New School Year. Plan a Memorable Back to School Night. I Got You Covered. 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Pedagogy.

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MARCH 1, 2021

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. The aspect of teaching that is hard to replicate in the online environment is the teachers’ ability to collect informal data by merely listening and observing.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Share it in the comments below.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Thirty years ago, a teacher might have occasionally wheeled out a television and VHS recorder during class once or twice a term. These days, video resources are readily available online, and teachers can make use of them in a much more integrated way. Use Video To Introduce New Topics. Videos for Expanded Experience.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Contrary to popular belief, micro learning has been around for quite some time, and many teachers have been delivering lessons in a microformat without calling it so (using flashcards is an excellent example of micro learning). Read more: 6 Steps that prove any teacher can create educational videos.

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