Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 26, 2020
Here’s a great list of age-appropriate, safe websites that will inspire 1st graders whether they’re in your classroom or at home: Geography—find messages around the world. Hangman. Brown Bear Typing. Aesop Fables—no ads. Aesop’s Fables–audio and visual. Audio stories—read by actors. Audio stories—speakaboos. Childhood Stories. Children’s Stories–MagicKey.
Educators Technology
AUGUST 12, 2020
K5 Learning is a platform that offers printable reading and math worksheets that you can use in your instruction. It also offers an "online reading and math program for kids in.read more.
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User Generated Education
AUGUST 13, 2020
Many of us have been discussing educational reform for decades. Given the unprecedented time of COVID19 and its effect on education, it is a perfect time to revisit and reimagine the purpose, operations, and skills related to a powerful education. Some of the issues that have emerged and are still emerging include: the social emotional health of learners, a realization that students aren’t able to be independent and self-directed learning, and an awareness of inequities that exist in the U
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 4, 2020
Break out rooms provide a great way fo r studen ts to work in small groups. Here are some best practices to ensure the success of breakout rooms. Determine norms Discuss with students what the norms of breakout rooms will be. What is responsible behavior and what is inappropriate? What should students do when they encounter inappropriate behavior i.e. end the meeting, report to the teacher.
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.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 5, 2020
DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Events, etc.) where educators can then select lesson plans, create assignments, and help students increase their Reading and Vocabulary skills.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 17, 2020
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: Top 10 iPad Shortkeys. Category: iPads.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
AUGUST 27, 2020
91: A Teacher's Perspective on the New Normal Teaching during a pandemic is difficult. It comes with many challenges such as public criticism, concerns over health and safety, teaching barriers, and pure exhaustion. Today I share my own perspective on what it means to teach during this new normal. What can we do to move forward? Take care of ourselves.
User Generated Education
AUGUST 22, 2020
I have written before about the beginning of the school year, Beginning the School Year: It’s About Connections Not Content. I begin all classes focusing on having the students make connections between each other and with me. I want students to learn about one another in a personal way. I want to learn about my students so my instructional strategies can be more personalized and tailored to their needs and interests.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 2, 2020
As a result of the CoronaVirus Pandemic, we were faced with the choice of canceling our large yearly conference, or figuring out how to do a virtual conference. We opted for a virtual conference and decided to use Microsoft Teams and YouTube Live for our platform. The Format Traditionally, at our conferences we have opening remarks, a keynote speaker, vendor floor, workshops all day, and at the end we have closing remarks and awards.
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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.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 24, 2020
*Be sure to checkout how Make Beliefs Comix can work for you for Remote Learning during this pandemic!!! Make Beliefs Comix is a excellent site that educators around the world are using for digital storytelling, project based learning, reinforcing vocabulary, and more. Also, Make Beliefs Comix has an abundance of lesson plans, the ability to translate comics into other languages, and recently launched story starters/writing prompts to help get the student's creative juices flowing.
CTE Learning
AUGUST 26, 2020
With COVID-19 changing summer plans for students, the California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) Pathways program and YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles teamed up to offer an exciting coding bootcamp to keep students learning and engaged throughout the summer months. Over 40 students in grades 4-8 took part in the free program that taught them about career pathways in science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) fields.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 12, 2020
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: 11 Great Typing Timesavers on iPads.
Bright and Smart
AUGUST 25, 2020
What is S. T.E.M. ? According to Live Science.com , " S. T. E. M. is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science , technology , engineering , and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach." People in S. T. E. M. related jobs use their knowledge in those specific areas to solve real-life problems.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
AUGUST 20, 2020
90: 5 Reasons to Teach Digital Citizenship Building a community of students that treat one another like family is part of a normal start-up during back-to-school time. During this time of distance learning and blended learning, it is now more important than ever to teach children how to be responsible digital citizens. I hope you will join me as I share the 5 reasons why teaching digital citizenship is so important.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 19, 2020
Districts around the globe are talking about having a hybrid model when returning to school. In a hybrid model, students attend school 1 - 3 days a week. In some districts, they'll have a remote teacher and a face-to-face teacher who will teach them at a six-feet-apart distance and students will be six feet apart from each other. How will this work?
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 11, 2020
Projector Screen is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works. I highly recommend checking out Projector Screen by clicking here !!! *Projector Screen is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.
National Institute for STEM Education
AUGUST 20, 2020
In recent years, buckets and buckets of ink have been spilled over how much time we spend in front of our screens. That was before the world took an unprecedented turn and forced us to stay home, where our phones and computers provide our only link to the outside world.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 19, 2020
Dr. Bill Morgan is a frequent contributer to Ask a Tech Teacher. Today, he is sharing his experience and research on how keyboarding skills benefit other topics I found this every interesting: Finger Dexterity. Transferable Keyboarding Skills. Dr. Bill Morgan, Ph.D. “How do you play the piano as well as you do?” someone in the choir asked me last Sunday.
PCS Edventures
AUGUST 19, 2020
BrickLAB STEAMventures is the brand new, one-of-a-kind learning solution from PCS Eventures, developed for K-1st and 2nd-3rd grade learning groups! It includes a 40-page magazine full of enriching STEAM challenges, activities, experiments and stories, a set of BrickLAB bricks for instant hands-on STEAM learning, Parent or Instructor supporting materials, optional resources for extended learning, and so much more!
Magic EdTech
AUGUST 17, 2020
“Accessibility allows us to tap into everyone’s potential.” – These wise words by Debra Ruh, a keen advocate for accessibility rights of people with disabilities, and the founder of TecAccess are the need of the hour. As we grapple with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic across the globe, it is vital to highlight web accessibility.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 29, 2020
Are you worried about sending your child back to school this fall? Do you have concerns about how your child will reintegrate into daily routines and peer relationships? Children and Screens’ Ask the Experts webinar “School’s Back, Now What? A Conversation about Teaching and Learning During COVID-19” on August 26, 2020, covered a plethora of thorny questions about sending children back to school this year and/or facilitating virtual learning.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 16, 2020
It’s anything but “that time of year again” as the typical “What will my class be like?” questions teachers often ask themselves are being overshadowed by much more ominous and anxiety-inducing ones such as “Where and how will I be teaching this year?” The situation seems to change by the day, and schools and districts are scrambling to best prepare teachers for multiple scenarios.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
AUGUST 13, 2020
89: How to Plan a Virtual Open House Meet the Teacher During this time of social distancing, many schools are going online with their open house. In this episode, I talk all about what you need to keep in mind to hold a virtual meet the teacher. I hope you stick around. Whether you are going back to school full-time face-to-face, hybrid, or virtually, you will most likely need to do a virtual open house.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 14, 2020
Here’s a great list of age-appropriate, safe websites that will inspire kindergarten-age children whether they’re in your classroom or at home: ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Counting Money –a collection of visual money websites for kindergartners. Edugames —drag-and-drop puzzles; great for mouse skills. Internet4Classrooms– -popular Kindergarten links.
PCS Edventures
AUGUST 18, 2020
Education is in uncharted territory. Instructors, Administrators, Districts, Universities, After School Programs, At-Home Learning — we are all trying to answer the same questions. What is education going to look like? How can we provide our students with quality education, regardless of the interruptions? Are we developing temporary solutions, or, as plans change week-by-week, are we etching a new educational norm into stone?
Maydm
AUGUST 11, 2020
Despite the cancellation of the 2020 American Family Insurance Championship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation continues to have a charitable impact by making direct donations to primarily local non-profits, including those providing COVID-19 relief. This is the third in a series on local organizations that are grant recipients.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 5, 2020
As schools around the globe rapidly transitioned to remote learning, it became apparent that it is the responsibility of all teachers to engage students of all ages in a dialogue around responsible digital interactions. Most schools will not go back to ‘normal,’ and the importance and benefits of a digital education have become clear. School leaders have finally taken more seriously the work of bridging the digital divide.
CTE Learning
AUGUST 6, 2020
CTeLearning.com is proud to offer an Introduction to Web Technologies course that is in full alignment with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) course standards. To help the course appeal to all Texas students, we take a project-based learning (PBL) approach and use exciting projects where students create web games, apps and sites to apply their learning.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
AUGUST 6, 2020
88: Problem Solving in the Math Classroom Today Meg Anderson from The Teacher Studio talks all about the power of problem-solving in the math classroom. Students often struggle in the area of problem-solving. Their go-to response is- I don’t get it. So how can we get them to stop and create a mental image and push through with critical problem-solving skills?
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 7, 2020
The teachers taking my online classes this summer tell me they’re having difficulty with remote teaching. Problems include administering and grading assessments, taking attendance, finding backchannel tools that enable them to stay in touch with students, and keeping viewers engaged during video presentations. Sure, they have tools that can do each of these but they either aren’t robust enough or only do part of the job or don’t excite students enough to participate.
Magic EdTech
AUGUST 5, 2020
Acky Kamdar, CEO, Magic Software Inc serving Education markets (Magic EdTech) and Financial Services Markets (Magic Finserv), has been active as a technology entrepreneur and an investor in the fields of digital technologies, blockchain, machine learning, AI and NLP. A seasoned business executive with over 25 years of experience launching and running businesses within the services industries, Acky specializes in business management, mergers and acquisitions, technology services, process optimiza
The Science Penguin
AUGUST 2, 2020
Hands-on at Home is designed for simple home investigations during virtual learning. You can also use these activities in a socially distanced classroom. Students can still get the experience of hands-on science without having to share materials. When designing lessons for digital learning, I adapted the 5E Model for home use. Want to access the year-long digital plans for 4th or 5th grade?
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