Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2021

This is a how-to article from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor describing clever ways to make remote teaching work. A recommended read if your remote program isn’t working as you’d hoped: Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely. The challenges involved in working remotely are many and varied, yet arguably the most significant obstacle managers face when trying to steward teams from afar is keeping them engaged and motivated.

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Accelerate Learning

APRIL 14, 2021

Throughout this past year, COVID-19 has reminded us that things don’t always go according to plan. The pandemic has required many of us to stretch our boundaries and adjust to new ways of life. When thinking about how the pandemic has affected both teachers and students, one can only imagine the scope of teachable life moments that have crossed their paths.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 12, 2021

Biteable is an excellent site for creating stunning presentations/slideshows. All a user has to do is select a template (or create one from scratch), select a color scheme, and add audio to create a beautiful product. Best of all, a educator can publish/share a presentation via unique URL or embed it into a site or blog. Also, a user can set their presentation to public or private to help abide by CIPA/COPPA compliance.

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Vivify Stem

APRIL 15, 2021

Design a School Garden STEM Project By Claire Meschkat One of the most rewarding STEM activities is when students can take a design and bring it to life in a real-world setting! Designing a school garden is the epitome of the STEM design experience that will leave a lasting impact and provide learning opportunities for years to come. We just completed this epic project at my school, and I am sharing how you can do it too!

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2021

April 22nd is Earth Day, a day when (historically) more than 1 billion people in 192 countries put the Earth’s health ahead of convenience, habits, and cultural norms. It’s a day when teachers of all kinds encourage an understanding of how mankind’s actions affect the planet we call home. This is a time to learn how the ingrained habits of a throw-away society imperil our future.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 12, 2021

Pedagogue is a excellent new social network for educators that makes it easy to collaborate w/ others and find educational resources. Also, Pedagogue is a great place to share a wide variety of resources such as: images, lesson plans, web sites, learning tools, templates, etc etc. Finally, Pedagogue lets educators seamlessly create groups or classrooms making it ideal for collaborative learning, professional development, and modify best teaching practices.

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

APRIL 12, 2021

122 OTT-Help Kids Learn to Fail- A Path Towards Unwavering Resilience Failure is success in progress. Yet, many teachers and students don't feel that way. Today, I sit down with Kerry Tracy from Kerry Tracy Feel Good Teaching and talk all about the gift of failure. I hope you will join us. Links Mentioned in the Show: STEM Con 2021 Kerry Tracy Feel Good Teaching TpT Shop Kerry Tracy Feel Good Teaching Failure is success in progress.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 14, 2021

Struggling with helping students learn math when you can’t be at their side? Try these videos ( check here for updates to links ): Bright Storm math videos. Khan Academy –online progressive math program; free. Math Class with Terry V. Math DrBob . Math Videos. Math videos –clean, nice. MathTV –videos; create playlists of topics; Spanish option.

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Smore Science

APRIL 12, 2021

Your child belongs to a generation born into advanced technology. Compared to those of us who had to live with dial-up connections and CDs before eventually entering the era of the Netflix and Amazons of this world, they will be growing up around even faster and more advanced technologies that have endless possibilities. So if your little one is starting to display an interest in the world around them, it’s a good idea to let them get benefit from learning about electronics.

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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.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 12, 2021

*Circly recently created some templates that are ideal for education. For example, the image above shows a template on what student's will be doing when they are finished w/ school. 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.

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STEM Minds

APRIL 12, 2021

April is National Poetry Month! This month is to celebrate and encourage the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry throughout the world. In celebration of this month, we have a few lesson ideas to combine the wonderful worlds of poetry and coding with your class. First things first, you may be wondering, “why use coding to teach poetry?” Poetry and code surprisingly have a lot in common, and they both allow students to be creative!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2021

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are buzzwords that every educator wants to know more about. They are two distinct functions. Kathy Schrock , columnist for Discovery Education explains: Augmented reality layers computer-generated enhancements on top of an existing reality to make it more meaningful through the ability to interact with it.

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Magic EdTech

APRIL 12, 2021

Introduction. Cloud computing is a modern approach to manage business requirements more efficiently. With the breakthrough of the internet and technology, the term has only evolved and become more popular. You can easily find cloud computing applications in several domains. Many software companies are transitioning from an expensive licensed software model to a cheaper, flexible, and efficient cloud subscription model.

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The Blog of Phyz

APRIL 11, 2021

Screens. When I was in school, screens were reflective white, flat curtains pulled down from retractible rolls when the teacher was going to show an educational film on the reel projector they shared with the other teachers at the school. At home, screens were cathode ray tubes in which a spray of electrons, steered by magnetic fields and attenuated by a shadow mask, struck red, green, and blue phosphors.

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K-12 Education News

APRIL 13, 2021

New study with 756 1st through 5th graders demonstrates that a six-week mashup of hoops and math has a positive effect on their desire to learn more, provides them with an experience of increased self-determination and grows math confidence among youth.

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ED Week

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic could have been a shining moment for STEM learning. Instead, new studies find, students and teachers struggled.

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Start-Engineering

APRIL 12, 2021

Eric Iversen. Same story, different verse Online gaming checks many of the boxes that we have learned to associate with break-out tech stories –surging to sudden visibility after taking shape under the radar, big business opportunities for first movers and early investors, and – not least – notable problems with inclusiveness and diversity. Going back years and persisting today, online gaming has been an often hostile environment for girls and women in the areas of both play and development.

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The Blog of Phyz

APRIL 10, 2021

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