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MAY 11, 2022

Raising computer-savvy children is complicated, whether you are a geek or a luddite. If you don’t pay attention, they teach themselves and not always the right way. Guiding kids through foundational steps and then building on them so students enjoy using technology for more than games and simulations is the goal.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

One of the most popular and in-demand skills is anything related to computers–programming, repair, networking, and cybersecurity to name a few. If you love the challenge of coding computers to do just about anything you can visualize, the hardest part of deciding on a post-High School career may be selecting the right specialty.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Technology enables it to differentiate authentically for the diverse group of learners that walk across your threshold. Until the day of, the technology that is its foundation fails. All that matters is an effort to use technology to add rigor and excitement to a tired lesson plan fails, leaving the teacher more technophobic than ever.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

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: Maintenance, Security.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer — December 13th. Clean up your Start Menu.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer — December 13th. image your computer.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. The study found that taking a computer science course had the greatest impact for female students, Black students and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Simulations and games have grown from rote drills using a computer to challenging learning experiences for students that hone problem-solving and critical thinking skills. They are fun for students, keep them engaged, and teach the foundational pieces of a lesson. What are the Advantages of Simulation in Teaching?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Role of Phosphorus Properties in Sustainable Technology for Classrooms When you think about how to educate the next generation, what do you hope to see? A school classroom of the future, one equipped with technology for students to learn and grow, is also designed to be sustainable.

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JULY 15, 2022

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach keyboarding. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Typetastic –also for computers. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. 4 lesson plans–bundled.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Believe it or not, most computer problems are simple. I can say that because I’ve run a computer lab for almost ten years. I’ve seen just about every problem there is and have learned this: If you believe your life with computers is a constant state of civil unrest, you’d be right. Is there any sound playing?

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Today’s tip: Fix computer with system restore Category: Problem-solving Q: My computer no longer runs right. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. In these 169 tech situations, you get practical strategies to address many classroom tech situations. What do I do?

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APRIL 5, 2022

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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech. “We

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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APRIL 14, 2023

But what I noticed early in my teaching career is that when kids are excited about telling a story, they figure out a way. Music Technology to the Rescue Before most people compose music, they must master writing and reading music. They draw comic books. They write phonetically. They tell stories out loud.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Objectives and Steps The objectives of this lesson are (use the lines in front of each item to check them off as completed): Understand that computers can be used to visit far-away places and learn new things. _Have students return to their seats and log onto the computer. Discuss why they use a password to access the computer.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you teach technology, it’s likely you were thrown into it by your Admin. Now that’s you–the go-to person for tech problems, computer quirks, crashes and freezes, and tech tie-ins for classroom inquiry. You’ll learn by doing, just as we teach students. Scaffold your lessons with what they teach.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. And he hasn’t had to abandon teaching. I just get to do the fun part now: teach,” he shares. “I What brought you to your role as a technology coach?

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JANUARY 5, 2024

” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. . ” 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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APRIL 20, 2022

Yes, teachers know students don’t have all of the skills they need for the technology required in education, but who has time to teach it? Newsweek has an interesting article addressing exactly that: How Schools Can Find the Time To Teach Digital Literacy Skills. teach computer science as part of the curriculum.

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MAY 15, 2024

Inclusive STEM programs widen job opportunities for the growing technology sector, support students in building digital literacy skills and empower young people to become creators — not just consumers — of technology. STEM identity can last a lifetime and help students thrive in school, future careers and life.

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JUNE 22, 2023

A college probably wouldn’t hire a teaching assistant who tends to lie to students about course content or deadlines. So despite the recent buzz about how new AI software like ChatGPT could serve as a helper in classes, there’s widespread concern about the tendency of the technology to simply make up facts. So Ashok K.

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MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. McNabb, an assistant director of teaching and learning engagement at Virginia Tech. “If But one group is often left out of the design process: students.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Basics Practice Touchpad vs Mouse 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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JULY 31, 2021

5 (free) Posters on Teaching I. Tech Tip #44: Computer Safety. 9 Websites for Comics in Teaching. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. We Landed on the Moon July 20 1969. Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans. Revealed: The Secrets to Studying Success.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It's hard to teach math, period.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Q: I teach Spanish and need a quick way to add accents to words. Credit: Computer Hope You probably always wondered what that key was to the left of the ‘1’, under the tilde.

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MAY 3, 2021

The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. That reticence to ask for help or request training changed about a decade ago when technology swept across the academic landscape like a firestorm: iPads and then Chromebooks became the device of choice in the classroom.

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MARCH 31, 2024

This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. It’s good to always backup data to cloud drives or a different drive on your computer but once a year, do the entire collection of data files to what is called an ‘air gap’ drive–one that is separated from any internet connection.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has come up with a foundational list of tips for teaching coding. Share in comments what your secret techniques are: 6 Tips for Teaching Kids Coding If you were around when the internet first came out, you may have seen how coding was a career for specialized professionals.

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MAY 31, 2023

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit 9 ebooks, 65 digital posters May 31-June 3 A new teacher survival kit–for professionals new to teaching tech or expanding their pedagogy. How do you reach your goal?

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JUNE 9, 2022

With the growing interest in tech comes a call for summer school programs that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. While immersing themselves in a topic they love, Genius Hour teaches students how to pursue a goal important to them. how to download favorite songs onto their computer. how to solve computer problems (i.e.,

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Maybe the cord that connects the keyboard to the computer is loose or fell out. Sometimes the stuff in the computer’s boot-up sequence that makes the keyboard work gets lost.

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MARCH 19, 2024

How do I teach keyboarding? So I enthusiastically answered every question the producer had with my thoughts from thirty years of teaching. In a macro sense, teaching keyboarding must take into account maturity, fine motor skills and age-appropriateness Can children’s hands move around the keys well enough? The list goes on.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

The idea started as a clever way to teach students to think critically and problem-solve. Let’s reinforce that goal by stepping away from digital device, recognize that these skills — critical thinking and problem-solving — apply to any part of life, even without a computer, iPad, or smartphone in hand. algorithms.

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