Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 5, 2022
Since we at Ask a Tech Teacher started this blog thirteen years ago, we’ve had almost 5.6 million views from visitors, about 10,000 followers who have read some or all of our 2,731 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ).
Educators Technology
JANUARY 28, 2022
Canva is a design platform that allows you to create a wide range of interactive media materials including infographics, posters, presentations, worksheets, comic strips, newsletters, book reports,read more.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2022
The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools. According to national data, schools are not facing greater teacher vacancies this year than in years past. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. And for good reason. Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020.
Cool Cat Teacher
JANUARY 31, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Reading stamina matters. Prior to the pandemic, nearly two-thirds of students in the US were below grade reading level for grade 4,8, and 12 (NAEP). If that isn't bad enough, UNESCO found that more than half of children and adolescents were not even learning worldwide. Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all.
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.
Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 4, 2022
There’s a scene in the award-winning film A Beautiful Mind where the real-life math genius John Nash (played masterfully by Russell Crowe) stands before two massive screens full of cryptic numbers formulated by an enemy government and computes in his mind for hours until he demystifies the code. Numbers are illuminated on the screens, indicating the highly complex mental math he’s performing.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 28, 2022
A while ago, Scientific American declared “…“ not only is Minecraft immersive and creative, but it is an excellent platform for making almost any subject area more engaging. ” A nod from a top science magazine to the game many parents wish their kids had never heard of should catch the attention of teachers. This follows Common Sense Media’s seal of approval.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 16, 2022
Edpuzzle is an educational platform that enables teachers to create and share annotated video lessons with their students. Teachers can use YouTube videos or upload their own, add questions, notes,read more.
ED Surge
JANUARY 13, 2022
As I sit at my grandmother’s oval-shaped wooden table, I feel a warm summer breeze through the open window. I ask her again how to pronounce iciyapi. “Ee-chee-yah-pee,” she says in a slightly slower, but confident tone. I repeat the syllables in a much slower and deliberate voice. “Ee.chee.yah.pee.” “Good my girl, that sounds good,” she says. She is teaching me how to properly introduce myself in our Lakota language, Lak?
User Generated Education
JANUARY 30, 2022
As a kid growing up, I loved board games. loved playing The Game of Life , Clue , and Sorry with my friends as a preteen and then Backgammon throughout my undergraduate years. I definitely liked the thrill of winning but equally so interacting with my friends while we played the games. Years ago I brought board games into my classroom. but haven’t for several years focusing more on using video games with my students.
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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.
Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 31, 2022
Helen Squire’s love for STEM can be found in all areas of her life—from her job as a math teacher at a charter school, her education (a bachelor’s and master’s in civil engineering), her side gig as a STEMscopes Math curriculum writer, and even her chosen names for the family dog and cat (Vader and Tesla). Her deep interest in STEM has enabled her to leave a lasting mark on STEMscopes Math.
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 17, 2022
My grandson in kindergarten has a class in reading. It makes sense as he is just learning how to read. Over time, school spends less time teaching how to read and a lot more time using using reading to support learning. For many years, I have been saying that computer science and its tools should be the same. Early on I thought of things like using spreadsheets to look at data.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 1, 2022
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 Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2022: Click image for interactive content on PublicDomanReview.org. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link].
Educators Technology
JANUARY 30, 2022
Blogging is a digital activity with immense pedagogical benefits for students. Besides developing a number of key multimedia literacy skills essential for thriving in the 21st century classroom,read more.
ED Surge
JANUARY 4, 2022
Throughout my 20 years in the field of early childhood development, in the classroom and as a kids’ show host, I have observed that a young child in focused, self-guided, open-ended play is like a lucid dreamer. Consider how our subconscious processes the experiences of our daily lives during our dream cycles. When adults pay attention to children’s verbal and non-verbal play, we are, in a way, able to look into their subconscious, and with some careful observation and analysis, gain a pretty go
Carly and Adam
JANUARY 13, 2022
The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk. *This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. By clicking on the links and making a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. The books we share with our students can cultivate an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. Providing exposure to a variety of books helps to show students that STEM is for everyone.
Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 31, 2022
February is recognized across the US as Black History Month. In keeping with this tradition we like to look back on great leaders, trailblazers, and heroes in STEM. This month we recognize the NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose work played a pivotal role in the moon landing, Project Mercury, and the beginning of the space shuttle program.
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 25, 2022
Kelly Powers posted a Wordle project document on the AP CS A Teachers Facebook page. It’s solid as one would expect from Kelly who is just awesome. It inspired me to write my own Wordle clone to better understand what is involved from a student project perspective. Of course I did it my way. A Wordle project must consist of several parts: Pick a word Accept a guess from the player Analyze the player’s guess Look for letters in the right place in the work Look for letters in the word but not in t
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 21, 2022
Here are some Winter activities to share the joy of winter: 5 Videos to teach about winter. Animal Winter Games. Winter Facts and Worksheets. The Winter Solstice, from PBS–a video for youngers. Winter Vocabulary –a video. What is a Solstice, from National Geographic–a video. What is the Winter Season –a video. Winter Coloring Pages, Printables, and more.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 11, 2022
An online paraphrasing tool (a reword generator) is a tool that allows you to find better ways to reword or paraphrase your content. Students can use paraphrasing tools to help them enhance the.read more.
ED Surge
JANUARY 20, 2022
When I first began attending school, my teachers often seated me in the back of the classroom. My parents immigrated from Mexico and were farm workers who lived in Florida and migrated around the country based on the season. That meant I didn’t just attend school in Florida, but also in the states that we traveled to, such as Indiana and Michigan. At the time, I could not speak English, so it was easy for me to be overlooked by my peers and teachers.
Middle Web
JANUARY 9, 2022
Metaverse? Prebunking? Zombie claims? The rapid evolution of digital technology and methods of persuasion has unleashed a flood of words and phrases that need to be in students’ vocabularies. Media literacy expert Frank Baker offers examples from across current culture. The post Media Literacy Words to Intrigue Your Students first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 4, 2022
Imagine an alien planet where the inhabitants are born with the multiplication table imprinted on their DNA. Let’s call this galactic species Multiplydons. The Multiplydons enter their distant world reciting multiplication facts the way human babies babble and coo for their parents. Like humans, Multiplydons attend school and study math, but their curriculum naturally omits memorization of the multiplication tables and skips ahead to their application.
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 12, 2022
After all these years one would think I would know better. But it turns out that when coding for fun I don’t always do the planning that I should. It always comes back to hurt me. If you have been reading this blog lately you know that I have been playing with a Wordle solver. It’s going well. But. I started well. I identified several thins my solver should look for: Words that include letters I know are in the word Words that don’t include letters I know are not in the word.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 17, 2022
Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Christian Miraglia, Educational Consultant for T4Edtech, reminds us that how we used it at first is probably not how we use it now: I Need an Idea, and I Need it Now!
Educators Technology
JANUARY 27, 2022
Watch2Gether is a platform that allows you to watch videos with your friends and family remotely wherever they are in the world. While watching, you can also interact with each other via text and.read more.
ED Surge
JANUARY 19, 2022
Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. He usually begins the academic year with lessons on written profiles, but in the fall of 2020, he felt that wouldn’t meet the moment. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief.
Carly and Adam
JANUARY 25, 2022
*This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. By clicking on the links and making a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow? Groundhog Day is celebrated every February 2nd and it is the perfect time to engage your elementary students in STEM and maker learning. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on Groundhog Day and sees its shadow, we are in for six more weeks of winter weather.
Defined Learning
JANUARY 13, 2022
Many teachers and students have or are returning to face-to-face classrooms with Covid social distancing rules in effect. Wearing a face mask, staying six feet apart, and not sharing materials make group work and collaboration seem impossible. But there are ways to use technology and our space to still have social interactions and use groups to achieve tasks including Project Based Learning (PBL).
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 11, 2022
The last few days have seem some social media discussion about requirements for a computer scientist. Is Calculus a requirement? Is Assembly/machine language a requirement? Among the “yes” and “no” answers there are requests for a definition of a computer scientist. I doubt we could get agreement on a single definition. The mental image people have of a computer scientist is closely related to what knowledge they think a computer scientist should have.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 26, 2022
Tech Learning recently shared an excellent lesson plan by Dr. Stephanie Smith Budhai that incorporates the amazing Google Earth into learning. Here’s the beginning: The 3D interactive online exploration platform Google Earth provides a pathway to endless learning adventures around the globe. For an overview of Google Earth and a breakdown of its unique features, check out How to Use Google Earth for Teaching. .
Educators Technology
JANUARY 10, 2022
Flipsnack is a platform that helps you create interactive flipbooks. Using a simple drag and drop editor you can instantly design visually attractive magazines, newspapers, eBooks, resumes,read more.
ED Surge
JANUARY 7, 2022
The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? —Looking for change Dave, my husband, was in the driveway a few days ago, about to head somewhere with our two kids.
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