Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2019

In MTI 562 The Tech-infused Teacher, you will use a suite of digital tools to make your lesson plans pop while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Assess student technology use organically.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, and more. Today, I want to talk about Study.com’s emphasis on differentiation. To me and many other educators: Differentiated instruction is at the core of effective teaching. What is differentiation? Key principles of differentiation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Designing Blended Learning for Student Engagement and Achievement “By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement meaningful blended learning experiences with objective-aligned assessments and activities that foster core 21st-century skills.” Free play is also an important aspect of children’s development.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2019

The 21st century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for unique needs. Assess student technology use organically.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2015

Mentoring Minds is an education publishing company and resource site created by former teachers. Materials enable differentiated instruction, student practice, and teacher evaluation of progress. Overall, Mentoring Minds has an wide collection of resources that support critical thinking and focus on best-practice methods.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 3, 2019

Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Resources include videos, pedagogic articles, lesson plans, projects, and virtual face-to-face meetings to share in a collaborative environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2017

In fact, any chance you have, differentiate instruction. Assess knowledge, but remember: Assessment isn’t static —nor is it ‘bad’. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2018

With the push to move assessments online, students need good keyboarding skills. It does this through a process of review, demonstration, practice, and assessment. It operates in the cloud, works on most digital devices (including Chromebooks and iPads with an external keyboard), and plays well with all browsers. What do I do?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

In this post I would like to share some of my favorite resource finds of the past year. Reflecting on 2015… Ten Resources I Found Valuable (This is just a small listing of ten…. At the Right Question Institute one can find some amazing resources that scaffold the inquiry process, allowing students to take ownership of inquiry.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Differentiated instruction, also called “personalized learning”, addresses the truism that every student learns differently. Start with an open-minded assessment of the student’s learning style using the VARK questionnaire or one of several other learning style inventories. It was time to shake things up.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2020

Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Assessment is based on involvement, interaction with classmates, and completion of projects so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Part 4: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Writing Engagement. I do really hope you enjoyed the past three posts involving differentiated instructional tools for reading and writing using technology. Part 1: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Reading. The Twenty Tools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2020

Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Assessment is based on involvement, interaction with classmates, and completion of projects so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Upload all learning materials into one digital spot While Heather’s French learners added all of their content into Google Drive, as the Innovation Coach, she and her educators upgraded to Hāpara Workspace. Educators could add digital resources and assessment pieces, and learners could submit assignments.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Part 5: 12 Tech Ideas and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Online Discussions. I do really hope you enjoyed the past four posts involving Differentiated Instruction. I do hope you have found some valuable resources and ideas. Part 1: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. How do you differentiate instruction between student geeks and students who wonder what the right mouse button is for? What do you introduce when? Where do you start?

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By using digital textbooks, learners can practice note-taking and highlighting to organize their learning. With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. Digital textbooks also include links for extra practice and enrichment, giving students a choice for how they want to learn.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Topics will include how to integrate technology into English Language Arts and Math classrooms, differentiated instruction, technology implementation strategies, and more. The Geo-Educator Community is a space for geo-educators to share resources, collaborate on projects, learn from one another and give support. Classroom 2.0

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A learning theory “in which networked learners not only construct and assimilate their own knowledge from their own learning opportunities, but deliberately contribute their own learning to a community resource base.”( Digital Citizenship. Learning expressly through online courses and related digital resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2019

Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Assessment is based on involvement, interaction with classmates, and completion of projects so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In a sentence, personalized learning: “tailors instruction, expression of learning, and assessment to each student’s unique needs and preferences.” If you think it sounds like differentiated instruction, it does with this caveat: Personalized learning is student-directed, student-paced, and designed for each learner.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Topics include: Personalize Your Math Professional Development, Learn About Differentiated Instruction and UDL, Personalize Your ELA Professional Development, and more. While their classroom has a traditional syllabus, the flipped learning method encourages them to work ahead by exploring resources outside of the classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the way, this resource is excellent for any Google for Education school that uses the Chrome browser, not just Chromebooks! While I can’t actually fit 100 ideas into this blog post and podcast episode, I can offer you a FREE Google Chromebook resource that is loaded with ideas, lessons, apps, and more! Click To Tweet.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2016

I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. Make sure your students practice proper digital citizenship and privacy. This conference will be filled with amazing speakers and workshops. Hope to see you there!

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

Before music went digital, some of us made CD or cassette mixtapes and shared them as gifts. With our ability to ethically curate content and unglue it from its containers, and a growing array of digital tools and open education resources, many of us are engaging in a creative new form of the remix.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Achieve3000 will apply its online differentiated instruction to the content, helping students to digest critical material so they can read, discuss, and debate core U.S. net is an all-inone web-based mathematics resource geared for K-12 mathematics and beyond. civics and government topics.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Digital Citizenship ? Testing and Assessment ? Alternative Education ? Balancing Home and School ? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? Classroom 2.0 ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Educational Technology ? Elementary Years ? Engagement ? Family & Parenting ? Future of Eduction ?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Some digital resources for school libraries are a virtual reality field trip.

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