Sat.Sep 05, 2020

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Student-Run IT Help Desks Adapt to the World of Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

As educators dive into remote learning this fall, many will lean heavily on IT staffers for help. Some, however, will have additional tech support — from the very same students they’re planning to teach. Student-run IT help desks , where trained students address tech-related questions from teachers and others in their school communities, were popping up in districts across the country before the coronavirus pandemic set in.

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Template Translate Meeting Chat to ALL Languages

Teacher Tech

I was talking with a teacher who is teaching students who come from a variety of backgrounds. The issue she was having while on a video meeting was the chat. The chat doesn’t translate and there were more than two languages being spoken. Template Directions After making a copy of the template, share the spreadsheet […]. The post Template Translate Meeting Chat to ALL Languages appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Distance Learning Robotics is Possible! (Edison is King)

Cycles of Learning

While PhET and cK-12 HTML5 simulations have proved to be essential in facilitating 100% distance learning in my chemistry and biology classes, creating a meaningful distance learning system for my robotics elective course was much more difficult to dream up. First, although the new VEX VR coding interface provides a fabulous coding/simulation environment for teaching robotics in a distance format, the thought of not doing hands on robotics during this time, resorting only to online simulations d

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How are you engaging your learners?

Learning with 'e's

Image from Pickpik The question I have been asked the most in recent months is one all teachers are interested in now they have been compelled to use online learning. It is this: What can I do to engage my learners in an online environment? What they are really asking is, how can I motivate my students to learn when I'm not in the same space as them?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Dystopia 2153

Technology Tidbits

Dystopia 2153 is an innovative new site for coding/programming that I just found out about from Monica Burns. Dystopia is a fresh take on teaching STEM skills by helping kids learn how to code through a digital graphic novel w/ over 40 different coding games. Also, for those that like "traditional" graphic novel a print version can be ordered. I highly recommend checking out Dystopia 2153 by clicking here !!!

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RecordCast – An Easy-to-use Screen Recorder to Create Video Lessons and Tutorials

EdTech4Beginners

The use of video is interesting in more ways than one. This makes it possible to produce presentation videos, tutorials or training sessions to transmit know-how, for example. It becomes possible, in a few clicks, to record your own mathematical problem-solving strategies, without needing special skills in managing videos. You are starting to record courses but which program to use?

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