Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 22, 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. Today’s tip: 10 Most Important Keyboard Keys. Category: Keyboarding.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 27, 2021
The current pandemic and the havoc it wrecked upon our lives have radically transformed the way we teach and learn. Hybrid (flipped) learning and remote and distance teaching have become the.read more.
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User Generated Education
JANUARY 2, 2021
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. – Eleanor Brownn. I have written about doing check-ins with students on several occasions, for example, see Emotional Check-Ins in a Teaching Webinar. What I find ironic about myself is that I haven’t discussed self-care of educators. This is especially negligent since I have a Doctorate in Counseling.
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 3, 2021
For many families the pandemic brought school home giving them a birds eye view into what their children are learning. While some parents are seeing their children thrive, others are frustrated by what they see. They find it hard for their children to sit all day working on screens. They are discovering a lot of what their children are doing is having information fed to them that they could have easily learned by watching YouTube videos.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
Magic EdTech
JANUARY 26, 2021
The long-established distinction between education and e-learning is blurring. Digitization is making a significant contribution to the fabric of our societies. It is now a reality of our day-to-day lives. Be it shopping, socializing, gaming, entertainment, work from home, online and virtual schools, and even daily yoga classes, digitization has become a part of our existence. .
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 27, 2021
Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. They include all the ebooks, videos, and other resources required so you don’t spend any more than what is required to register for the class. Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 9, 2021
Looking for some inspiration and motivation to boost your 'teaching morale'? The list below embeds some interesting reads to start with. These are memoirs written by teachers and educators.read more.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 18, 2021
Edu-pal is a new Chrome extension that lets educators create polls and quizzes in Google Meet. This is done through a very user friendly interface as long as both users (students/teachers) the extension and using Google Meet through their browser. Once a poll or quiz is created students see the question and then can answer them in real-time making it easy for teachers to assess student learning.
Vivify Stem
JANUARY 19, 2021
15 Websites & Apps that Teach Robotics Virtually One of our recent top questions in The STEM Space educator group was: Help! We are going virtual, and I run a robotics class. How can I teach robotics virtually? We rounded up the answers from other teachers, conducted our own research, and we present to you 15 ways to teach robotics for distance learning!
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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.
Magic EdTech
JANUARY 26, 2021
The long-established distinction between education and e-learning is blurring. Digitization is making a significant contribution to the fabric of our societies. It is now a reality of our day-to-day lives. Be it shopping, socializing, gaming, entertainment, work from home, online and virtual schools, and even daily yoga classes, digitization has become a part of our existence. .
STEMx
JANUARY 28, 2021
Q: Tell us about the work done at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). What are its areas of research and its mission? A: INL is the nation’s leading laboratory for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration and deployment, and we are engaged in the mission of ensuring the nation’s energy security with safe, competitive and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security capabilities.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 1, 2021
Every year, January 1st, is P ublic Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use. According to Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2021 : F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Love Learning STEM
JANUARY 25, 2021
If you read my Misconceptions About Stem Class, then you know all about how difficult teaching stem concepts can be. Using Boom Learning has been one of the best tools for me to use in my 4th grade science classes, because they’ve allowed my students to practice the vocabulary while having fun. Come with your questions, because I plan to address how to use and assign Boom Cards for the science classroom in this post.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 21, 2021
BookWidgets is an excellent site for creating educational games/quizzes. BookWidgets is ideal looking for teachers to save time by having their educational games/quizzes automatically graded. This is all done in a user-friendly interface and educational portal that allows teachers to: track and monitor students in real-time. Best of all, BookWidgets makes it easy for educators to assess student learning and differentiate instruction through detailed reports/graphs.
Vivify Stem
JANUARY 27, 2021
7 Ways To Teach About Mars Connecting learning opportunities to current events with your kids is one of the best ways to bring STEM education to life. Join in the excitement of the science and engineering feats that are happening RIGHT NOW at NASA! Drive home the importance of building STEM skills and how engineers work to solve problems for all of humanity.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JANUARY 25, 2021
How Not to Allow Space Define Your Makerspace in the Classroom Many educators can get hung up on the lack of space they have for a Makerspace in their classroom. But you don't have to! There are several solutions to your space issues. So don't allow your space (or lack of it) to define your Makersapce in your classroom. I hope you stick around. Links Mentioned in the Show: Register for STEM Con 2021 Free Makerspace Start-Up Kit Episode 30 - Every Classroom Needs a Makerspace Episode 31 - Launchi
Wisconsin Science and STEM Education
JANUARY 25, 2021
Ask 20 teachers what scientific inquiry is and it’s possible you’ll receive 20 different answers. From a series of proscribed steps to a lab-based free-for-all, conceptions have shifted over time. In the National Research Council’s (NRC) 1996 National Science Education Standards (NSES), inquiry held a prominent position as its own content area, but the term rarely comes up in its 2012 Framework for K–12 Science Education (Framework).
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 29, 2021
Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in February: Subscriber Special. 100th Day of School Activities. World Read Aloud Day. Free Posters. Why Kindergartners Must Learn Tech. Math Word Problems. Shortkeys. Great Websites for Remote Teaching. Websites to Enhance Social Studies. How Fast Schould Kids Type. Keyboarding Hints.
Ellipsis Education
JANUARY 21, 2021
By Katie Baird Content Marketing Specialist. "We want students to understand what a computer can do, what a human can do, and why that’s different,” says Mark Guzdial, Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech. When it comes down to it, that’s all computer science really is: the relationship between humans and computers. Computer scientists use their creativity hand-in-hand with technology to solve real-world problems.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 27, 2021
SplashLearn is a wonderful, super easy-to-use, free all-in-one online Math platform for grades K-5. SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.
Fiendishly Clever
JANUARY 18, 2021
In the absence of a proper home for these notes, I’ve decided to host them here so that they get picked up by search engines and are accessible to a wider range of teachers. Background The inclusive science group is made of interested educators from all phases and sectors who have an interest in teaching … Continue reading "The Inclusive Science Group – Meeting 1 (Differentiation)".
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JANUARY 18, 2021
110: All About Choice Boards in the Classroom Loren Thorpe joins us today all the way from Australia! She is sharing her ideas for choice boards and shares her “50 Ways of Using Choice Boards in your Classroom.” She also shares the different options you could use on your choice board for different grade levels. Join us as we explore the benefits of choice boards!
Wisconsin Science and STEM Education
JANUARY 22, 2021
What questions do you have about the world that is within one centimeter of you right now? What do you notice and wonder about the phenomenon represented by this graph? If we look at the performance expectations of Next Generation Science Standards, which many districts and several states have adopted as their science standards, the practice of “asking questions” comes up only four times in all of middle and high school.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 15, 2021
A great infographic done using Easelly: Made with Easelly infographic templates. @easel_ly. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). More on game-based learning. Why Game Based Learning Is the Right Choice for Remote Teaching. Kid-created Games That Teach. New Ways to Gamify Learning. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.
Stem Activities for Kids
JANUARY 17, 2021
This is a guest post to let you know all about the EPIC Challenge from St. Jude. We are so happy to share about their free STEM curriculum! For more details, please visit the St. Jude Epic Challenge. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics —they’re all used every day at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. From careful measurements for patients’ medicine to the complex mathematics needed in their state-of-the-art research facilities, STEM plays an important role in helping St.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 6, 2021
*Circly's collaboration features make it an ideal tool for "remote learning" while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.
Start-Engineering
JANUARY 14, 2021
Eric Iversen. STEM has left the building For a long time, advocates of STEM education have worked to bring STEM learning closer to students’ lives outside of school. This year, though, COVID has made STEM learning a part of students’ lives outside of school – and in the home – in ways nobody ever imagined or wanted. The move to at-home school abruptly air-dropped parents and children into a new teacher-student relationship with little guidance in how to make it all work in a home converted into
Informed K12
JANUARY 12, 2021
What is your title, and how long have you worked here? My current title is Senior Support & Product Operations Manager. As of today, I have been 1.94 years at Informed K12!
Magic EdTech
JANUARY 12, 2021
The Pandemic Impact: . If there were any lingering doubts about the importance of digital transformation to business longevity, the coronavirus has silenced all those critics. In a contactless world, schools and teachers should continue to impart learning even in crisis without physical interaction. While the transition to digital education was already in transit, what’s noteworthy here is that pre-Covid, the transition was more like a dimmer switch – which was slow and sporadic, and
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 19, 2021
There is so much tech kids need to learn these days, it’s easy to forget the basics. Like file extensions. These help kids categorize websites, prioritize credibility, and streamline their browsing. Here are the most essential of these: What are the popular file extensions kids should learn about? As kids work their way through the education system, they will use different types of documents for their projects.
Chillax Science
JANUARY 11, 2021
These Engineering Activities Will “Save the Day”! Is your child doing virtual school? Do you find your child wondering around the house in between zoom meetings and interrupting your zoom meetings too? If yes, you are not alone and I feel your pain as well. And if this is your situation, I have some activities that will “save the day” with little effort on your part.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 18, 2021
GamiLab is a fantastic new site for creating educational games. GamiLab lets teachers or students create educational games from scratch or customizing already created content. Also, these games can contain videos, text, flashcards, etc. and can be used for Remote Learning. Best of all, there are two "main" game styles such as King of the Mountain and Biker Race mode which is a great way to easily test student's learning.
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