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 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 24, 2022
The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. When the specter appears, he has a chain “wound about him like a tail,” made out of “cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.” Scrooge asks the spirit of his old friend why it’s shackled. “I wear the chain I forged in life,” the ghost replies.
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
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.
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. .
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ED Surge
JANUARY 27, 2022
My last article, about how teacher care is more than self care , was the most read on EdSurge for the month of November. And while I was pleased that the words resonated, it is also disturbing that something so fundamental as care and wellbeing is hitting a nerve with the education community. Nelson Mandela once said that “The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 24, 2022
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: Speed up MSO with Quick Access Toolbar.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 25, 2022
Reflex Math (reflexmath.com) is a game-based learning platform that helps students become math fact fluent. Reflex games are interactive and fast-paced providing students with a fun and motivational.read more.
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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.
ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2022
Change in higher education historically has been a dynamic process involving two sectors—one consisting of mainstream institutions and the other a grab bag of diverse, nontraditional organizations, service providers and emerging models. Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions.
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 27, 2022
Mike Zamansky had a great post called Trends In Professional Development in CS - it's not all good. We’re still at a very interesting place in the development of computer science education. The shortage of qualified CS teachers is becoming more acute and more and more schools and school systems attempt to expand CS education. Professional development is also growing as well As Mike reports a lot of it is from content providers who have a vested interest in promoting their content.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 25, 2022
One of my favorite resources for explaining tech in the classroom is Richard Byrne. In this article, he discusses helpful YouTube Features for Teachers. Five Helpful YouTube Features for Teachers. YouTube offers a bunch of features that are sometimes overlooked or under-utilized despite being quite helpful when sharing videos in your classroom. In this new video I demonstrate five of those features. .
Educators Technology
JANUARY 26, 2022
Mybib is a free bibliography and citation generator. It allows you to generate formatted bibliographies, citations, and works cited from various sources including websites, books,read more.
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
There’s a picture that went viral early in the pandemic that became a symbol of how hard emergency remote schooling was for the youngest students. The image showed a 5-year-old student sitting at a small desk in his family’s kitchen, facing a laptop computer. He’s holding a pencil in one hand, pulling up the neck of his T-shirt with his other hand to wipe tears away from his eyes.
Defined Learning
JANUARY 25, 2022
One reason why a large subset of students struggle in school is that they lack organization. These are the kids who do their homework but never turn it in. It is probably “lost” somewhere in their backpack. At the end of the year when these students clean out their lockers, they are full of papers everywhere that may or may not have been graded. Sometimes we forget to have a growth mindset about these kids.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 27, 2022
Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten. Here’s a great article from ASCD and EdSource on that subject: Math in early childhood is key, studies show.
Free Technology 4 Teachers
JANUARY 23, 2022
Do you remember when Wordle was a word cloud generator that was taking the Web 2.0/ edtech world by storm? I do and lately I can't help but think of it whenever I see people post their Wordle scores on social media. For those who don't remember those days, Wordle was originally a word cloud generator that teachers were using to create visual summaries of large blocks of text.
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
The College Board announced today that the SAT will be going fully digital, arguing that the shift will make the test easier to take and administer—and a better fit for today’s students. The move comes as a growing number of colleges and universities have gone test-optional in admissions , in part because the pandemic made it harder for students to gather safely to take the test, and in some cases out of concern that standardized tests may prevent barriers for some types of students.
Start-Engineering
JANUARY 28, 2022
Eric Iversen. A rock-star engineer Mark Rober might be the most visible mechanical engineer in America. He’s got views on YouTube exceeding 2.5 billion, appearances on multiple TV news and entertainment shows, and a video launching it all showing him with a gaping hole in his torso. Or at least, a Halloween costume that makes it seem like he has a gaping hole in his torso.
How to STEM
JANUARY 24, 2022
Every young person should see similar people to themselves succeeding in STEM. “You can’t be what you can’t see” Marian Wright Edelman (American activist for children’s rights). However… Women are underrepresented in STEM fields, making up just 24% of the overall UK STEM workforce Black, minority ethnic and disadvantaged young people are also consistently underrepresented within STEM.
Free Technology 4 Teachers
JANUARY 28, 2022
The USGS Multimedia Gallery contains large collections of educational videos, animations, audio recordings, pictures, and slideshows. As you might expect, you'll also find lots of maps in the USGS multimedia gallery. You can browse and search the gallery according to media type, year of publication, and keyword. In addition to the videos in the USGS Multimedia Gallery you can find many videos on the official USGS YouTube channel.
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
“Don’t go back!” This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or wh
STEM Education Works
JANUARY 25, 2022
Anytime you’ve seen pictures of outer space – whether it be a stunning image of a spiral galaxy or a sprawling, majestic nebula – you probably had Hubble to thank. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been orbiting above our heads and serving us well for nearly 32 years now, providing us with breathtaking images of the heavens and yielding a treasure trove of data for scientists all around the world.
Robot Lab
JANUARY 25, 2022
There are multitudes of STEM grants you can apply for. You should carefully consider all possible funding sources when searching for money to pay for your newest classroom innovation. Here are some STEM funding options.
Free Technology 4 Teachers
JANUARY 24, 2022
Disclosure: Lumio is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Advertisers help keep the lights on here. Lumio was one of my favorite new tools in 2021. I wrote about it back in November , but I don’t think I fully captured everything that makes Lumio great. And since Google Analytics tells me that people prefer articles that have lists, here are ten cool things that you and your students can do with Lumio.
ED Surge
JANUARY 28, 2022
While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. At its heart, the dialogue digs into which books school librarians should make available to their students.
Box Light
JANUARY 24, 2022
We are starting off 2022 with amazing news – we are proud to announce that FOUR of our solutions won Best of 2021 from Tech&Learning. The purpose of the awards was to recognize educational technology that exceptionally supported teachers and students in 2021, no matter what the learning environment. A panel of educators evaluated nominations based on a set of criteria such as the product’s ability to support different learning environments and student needs, versatility, and ease of use.
Teach Science for All
JANUARY 25, 2022
If you are someone who follows this blog then you most likely are already a fan of the brilliant STEM Teaching Tools site. If it’s been awhile since you’ve visited stemteachingtools.org then I highly recommend heading there now.
STEM Everyday Podcast
JANUARY 22, 2022
3d printing is not just for nerdy teachers anymore. Every educator can start 3d printing with their kids, but some people just don’t know how to start. Keven Rinaman is an educator, author, podcaster, coach, and 3d printing expert. He has taught history, math, and technology at middle and high school grades, and has served as the technology director and Dean of Students for his district.
ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2022
A recent cyberattack that affected the biggest school district in the country is a reminder of an increase in cybersecurity incidents at schools across the U.S. As such attacks become more common, schools may need to do more to build their ability to prevent attacks and to hold private vendors to high standards, experts say. The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focuse
Robot Lab
JANUARY 27, 2022
By Nancy Howard. With the rapid development of AI and tech as a whole, it’s no wonder that EdTech is becoming more common every day. Not only is it being used by educational institutions, but it’s also transitioning into our daily lives while businesses are starting to use it in their own employee training. Hence, here’s how EdTech will change the future of learning in 2022.
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