Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 31, 2019

MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens. Starts Monday, June 3, 2019! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 557 and click for more information and to sign up. If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 27, 2019

Accessibility options exist with each of the big three tech companies, Google , Microsoft , Apple. That’s a move in the right direction, but it is not enough. Currently, creating accessible content requires content creators, rather than platform providers, to do the heavy lifting. Each company’s platform design places accessibility in the hands of the content creator as an afterthought.

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

MAY 30, 2019

Talking curriculum, professional development, and building a community of teachers is one of my favorite things to do. That probably explains why Deedee Wills from the Facebook group Primary Collaborative and I speak for over an hour! It's a long one, but I loved every moment of it. Teachers need other teachers. It's in the people who get you that you often find comfort.

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STEMx

MAY 30, 2019

STEMx member state Arkansas will host key advocates for computer science in just two weeks. The summit builds on years of advances in computer science education in the state. Last June, we talked to Anthony Owen, Arkansas’s State Director of Computer Science: Governor, teachers and others back Arkansas’s computer science push. Then, he told us “Arkansas is leading the nation in K-12 CS education.

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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.

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Magic EdTech

MAY 28, 2019

Organizations in the business of consumer engagement, specifically Edtech companies dealing with the Generation Alpha today, face a constant imperative: how to innovate by adopting modern technologies in an ever-evolving digital environment. In my experience of working with organizations that work hard to stay afloat and relevant to their customers, the most successful are the ones that implement digital strategies to empower current customers and/or enhance business models or processes.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 30, 2019

Chronicle Cloud is an innovative educational all-in-one iOS app for teachers. Educators can use Chronicle Cloud in a number of different ways such as: assessing (using their "traffic light" system), note-taking, providing feedback, and much much more. Also, being on the "cloud" teachers can collaborate and share best "teaching" practices in an easy way.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 30, 2019

Fishbowl is a new social network/community for education that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's award winning blog. Fishbowl is a great place for educators to place and respond to questions in a private setting. Also, this is a place where teachers can look to other colleagues to find other resources and implement best teaching strategies.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 30, 2019

FlexClip is a excellent online video editor that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. This is a great resource that educators can use to edit a video, integrate digital storytelling, introduce a topic, and more through an easy-to-use tool. All an educator has to do is upload their media (video/images), add text, sound, or record a voice over, and then export/share it.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 30, 2019

*Updates New Teacher Dashboard - makes it easier to create assignments and setup classes New templates and fonts Storyboard That the wonderful resource that educators everywhere are using for a variety of educational purposes (i.e. timelines, digital storytelling, project based learning, etc), has just released a bunch of ideas/activities on how to use Storyboard That over the summer.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 30, 2019

30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS app that is ideal for digital storytelling 30hands Pro. The 30hands community is a perfect cloud based solution that allows educators to: manage/track students, hand in/out assignments, schedule events, and more. While the mobile is being used in education for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more.

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