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APRIL 4, 2025

Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research. How do you teach kindergarteners to beware of the digital neighborhood, the home of Legoland and virtual pets? How do you teach fifth graders to be careful when the cool middle schoolers aren’t?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Parents When students use the internet to research a topic, likely they get hundreds—or thousands—of possible resources.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Digital citizenship teaches safe online practices for students. Research skills promote inquiry and curiosity in students. Games like Minecraft and Sim City can teach complex subjects effectively. Teaching them about online safety and responsibility ensures they can engage positively and productively in digital spaces.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

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MAY 23, 2024

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves. And it’s still a concern.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many even created special offices or programs in the hopes of teaching students how to talk with people they may disagree with. This year, that number has grown to 122 campuses, says Mylien Duong, senior director of research at the institute. This may be tense, but that’s ok. Let’s be comfortable with the uncomfortable.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Basics While immersing themselves in a topic they love, Genius Hour also teaches students how to pursue a goal important to them. Create a list of five research questions to guide inquiry including where to find the answers. Enjoy the research. On Project Presentation Day, present research and take audience questions.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A professor from a major university told me about a study where students were asked to write secure code. More research needs to be done and we can argue over research methods as well. Frankly, I don’t see that coming anytime soon. Half were told to do it on their own while half were told they could use AI.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Research shows that approximately 1.27 Recently, EdSurge spoke with Dr. Timothy Rasinski , professor emeritus of literacy education at Kent State University, where he has directed a reading clinic for struggling readers for over 20 years. The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself.

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MAY 24, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Writing a great research paper involves more than just retelling what you’ve read. The foundation of any good paper is solid research. At the center of any decent academic effort is a heaping pile of solid research. Solid research lays a great foundation for any piece of writing.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

High school students contemplating a military career should research extensively, speak with recruiters, and perhaps participate in preparatory or introductory military programs to make an informed decision. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. military academies (e.g.,

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. Oh, and there’s the COVID pandemic, which jolted all professors into using more online tools, and has brought further changes to the job market. College in the U.S.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

How should teaching change for a group of students whose studies and social lives were disrupted by COVID-19 (and instructors who had a crash-course in online teaching)? Professors Try Restrained AI Approach to Help Teach Writing By Jeffrey R. How much should college cost (and what are people really paying)? By Jeffrey R.

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MARCH 25, 2021

This month: Research. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. –for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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MAY 19, 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. Category: Google Apps, Keyboarding.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. digital search/research. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. netiquette.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Only one in eight programs give elementary school teachers enough time to learn the math content they teach, according to a recent study by the National Council on Teacher Quality, which reviewed more than 1,100 teacher prep programs around the country. The aim is to give teachers a deeper grasp of the content and more practice teaching it.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Research shows that he’s not alone — that often transfer students tend to be more motivated and engaged than students who come to college straight from high school. Sign up for our newsletters. Listen to the episode on Spotify , Apple Podcasts or on the player below.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. So a group of professors recently performed a meta-analysis to try to assess how well flipped learning is working.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Citizens are expected to research their options and then vote for the candidates most qualified to fulfill the country’s goals. The first few explain elections in general and the next teach the process through gamification. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. House of Representatives and the U.S.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? So why do students turn to it for news?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

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MARCH 12, 2025

They take time, require proper research, and somehow always seem to be due right when everything else is piling up. The biggest term paper writing service benefits come from having a solid referencesomething well-researched, properly formatted, and structured the way a professor actually wants. But term papers?

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

For individual needs such as casual reading, personal research, or anything else that requires significant amounts of reading, there is help. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Most prominent educational testing centers (like SAT, ACT, PARC, and SBACC) make these available for most of their tests.

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APRIL 11, 2025

Dont teach them! Murray emphasizes that this is an ideal time to be involved in teaching technology, whether or not one considers themselves a tech expert. The six strands include digital citizenship, keyboarding skills, problem-solving, research skills, vocabulary expansion, and publishing and sharing.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Try NAPS 11 Ways X/Twitter Improves Education LOTS of Resources for Kids Online Research Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day 9 St. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Interested in the Military?

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JANUARY 17, 2025

It turns out that doing so will require a major reeducation effort for parents, students and teachers, argues Joshua Eyler, who has led teaching centers at several colleges, in a new book. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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MAY 22, 2024

Here are three from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 3 Creative Teaching Resources That Save You Time and Money Educators are increasingly expected to do more with less – ensuring that the next generation gets the quality of teaching they deserve while keeping budgets in check and making up for shortfalls in classroom resource availability.

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MARCH 4, 2025

In recent years, Johnson, along with many other professors, has noticed that students struggle more than ever with the jump from high school to college. When students are raised knowing theyll go to college, they know the importance of attending office hours, going to the writing center and talking to their professors one-on-one.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

But even as some educators raise concerns, others see potential for new AI technology to reduce teacher workloads or help bring teaching materials to life in new ways. A number of startups are trying to bring so-called generative AI to classrooms as a teaching tool.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. Faculty across higher ed institutions, he says, must see a need to change how they teach to better serve students.

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