Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2021

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: Reset Default Font. Category: MS Office, Google Apps, Classroom Management, Writing.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2021

The past year propelled IT teams and leadership into the spotlight with never-before-seen digital transformation and multi-year technology plans executed practically overnight. After a year of awe-inspiring progress, Hillsborough County Public Schools CTO Jeremy Bunkley believes K-12 IT leaders need to keep the momentum going to ensure the year’s gains translate to long lasting technology and culture transformation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 5, 2021

Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves. The post How Do You Teach Social-Emotional Learning? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 5, 2021

ClipDrop is a great Augmented Reality app that allows you to transform the physical world into the virtual space. Using ClipDrop you will be able to easily capture any visual from your physical.read more.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 5, 2021

Receive a weekly report of how your students are engaging with Google Classroom. The post Your Google Classroom Weekly Update appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

As schools reopen, some students — especially those from Black and Asian families — dread going back. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Franetta Sinsabaugh’s frustrations with her children’s schooling had been building for a long time. Too much of the school year revolved around preparing for Texas’s standardized tests. The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Before the pandemic hit our Latino community, we were making slow but steady progress in closing the equity gaps that prevent Latino students from truly thriving in our education system and workforce. For decades, courageous Latinos pushed hard to get national, state and district leaders to prioritize the education of Latino students, and it was paying off.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 5, 2021

Educators who ran the gauntlet of pandemic teaching have been stressed to wits’ end. It's time to collect the payoff from this hard discipline. Curtis Chandler relates 5 questions teachers asked themselves during the crisis. "If we begin 2021-22 with solid answers, we’ll be rewarded.". The post Running the Gauntlet Has Sharpened Our Focus first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Home plate umpire Marvin Hudson called balls and strikes during a Major League Baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants in 2017 in San Francisco, California. This call pictured above was one of more than three million umpire calls analyzed by researchers in a 2021 study finding that short breaks refresh an umpire’s attention span.

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N2Y

JULY 5, 2021

Reading is a lifelong journey. When we are young, we learn to read; as we grow, we read to learn. What a joy it is to curl up with a new release from your favorite author! And how easily we are captivated by great nonfiction as we learn about a new topic. Literacy development begins in infancy as parents and caregivers talk and sing to their children and read aloud from storybooks.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2021

“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist … using technologies that haven’t been invented … in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.” —Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education. Less than twenty years ago, a student saying that they wanted to be a data scientist, digital artist, app developer, virtual assistant or blogger would’ve been met with confused faces and the standard “what’s that?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 5, 2021

Over the last few years animated GIFs resurged into the visual scene of the virtual world playing prominent roles in the communication structure of the social web. Animated GIFs gained in.read more.

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