Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 30, 2019
Here are the most-read posts for the month of April: An Open Letter to Teachers About Online Classes. 11 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship. The 15-second Slideshow. What to do when you lose a digital document. Have Google Takeout at Your End-of-Year Party. 12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year. Kindergartners need Technology too! 10 Myths about Teaching with Tech.
The Innovative Educator
APRIL 28, 2019
Innovative Educators will be excited to learn that Facebook has a mentorship program available to people within select groups with a focus on parenting, professional, or personal development. This means admins can offer this feature to members of their groups. Those who are members of groups using this feature, can offer or find support. Members can determine how much time they want to spend together and what goals you want to work towards.
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Magic EdTech
APRIL 30, 2019
Website accessibility isn’t just a good way to be sure that 100% of your customers and clients have access to your information and services when they need it. It’s also the law. Title III of the ADA requires all private business serve as “places of accommodations” to remove “access barriers” that could impede a disabled person’s access to their goods and services.
STEMx
MAY 2, 2019
Fifteen million U.S. households were food-insecure. in 2017. , according to the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. This week on Greater Than STEM, we speak with Ana, a 6th grade student and Michelle Moskowitz Brown of Local Matters, a community garden advocacy organization. These two share a love of food, gardening and family, but have come from different backgrounds with different access to food.
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
MAY 1, 2019
May 28th-31st: Coaching or Mentoring. BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free. Do any of these sound like you? Your kindergartners don’t know what ‘enter’, ‘spacebar’, ‘click’ or many other techie words mean but you need to teach them to keyboard, internet, and become digital citizens. How do you start? You have new students in your class who haven’t had technology training.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Wisconsin Science and STEM Education
APRIL 29, 2019
I recently met with a group of teachers to discuss assessments that align with the vision of the new Wisconsin Standards for Science (very similar the NGSS). When I brought up Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) as an opportunity to collaboratively create aligned assessments and review student work, they shared that their principals required them to use standardized tests that didn’t align well to their discipline-specific visions or standards.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 29, 2019
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: How to Move Pics Around in Docs. Category: Images.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 3, 2019
Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6th-10th. In honor of these tenacious, creative individuals, here are some of our favorite teacher articles: 18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am. Definition of ‘Teacher’. How to be a Tech Teacher. 10 Steps to Become a Better Geek. 21 Reasons Why You Know You’re a Teacher. You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…. Just Another Day In Computer Lab.
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