Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Multi-award-winning Minecraft is a game of survival. You don’t ‘level up’; you build, explore, and survive whatever comes at you by placing blocks and going on adventures, either alone or with classmates. As you do, you explore, gather resources, craft, and fight for your survival. At the core of every action is problem-solving: Minecraft encourages kids to tinker. “You’re not complaining to get the corporate overlord to fix it — you just have to fix it yourse

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When I left credential school 16 years ago, I had very specific ideas about teaching and learning. Some of these preconceived notions were based on my own experience as a student then reinforced in credential school. So, this is what I walked into my first classroom believing… Students should sit in rows. A quiet classroom is an effective classroom.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Today’s guest post is written by Melissa Corto of Education Modified , a company that provides educators with research-based, job-embedded professional development to increase collaboration and improve the outcomes for students with special needs. This will be her first post of two, regarding claiming her identity as an entrepreneur after teaching in New York City public schools.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 26, 2016

“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” – W.J. Cameron. Thanksgiving is an important event that teaches us about collaboration and acceptance between two vastly different cultures and this is definitely an important history our students can benefit from. Thanksgiving provides us the opportunity to teach students about what it means to be a good citizen and humanitarian.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Do you see librarians as part of the future? Courtesy Mark Ray Mark Ray is the Chief Digital Officer for Vancouver Public Schools. I posed that question in my recent TEDx talk during the 2016 Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools meeting in San Diego. In my district , across the League, and across the U.S., the answer is coming back: “Heck Yeah!”.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Kent State University researchers address the need for more knowledge and professional development.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One of the biggest trends affecting education across the country is the migration of bullying to digital media, which is commonly referred to as cyberbullying. About 7 percent of students in grades 6-12 experience cyberbullying each year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying is much harder for educators to detect and address.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Device rollout is a huge event for every school in the Verizon Innovative Learning initiative , especially those in their first year of the program. It’s a celebration that marks the culmination of many months of hard work and preparation from district and school leaders, IT directors, teachers, and the entire community. Digital Promise Professional Learning Managers (PLMs) work with each school prior to rollout to help them plan the event and encourage teamwork.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Follow these best practices for keeping in line with federal online safety regulations.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Back in 2008 I raised the questions : Why would anyone who wishes to actually reach educators and hopefully influence change in schools not be blogging? Also… why haven’t more faculty caught on to this? Eight years later, I thought that I would share a couple of recent tables that I made in order to illustrate this point further. The first table is the number of academic citations that I have received on the top 20 things that I have written or created ( according to Google Scholar ).

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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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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When I was in high school poetry was my least preferred subject. And I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the favorite student of my poetry teacher either. The reason for this was very simple: I didn’t have the necessary affinity towards poetry and I always had a hard time understanding and learning poems. Although I tried many times to memorize poems for the sake of my grades, I never truly succeeded.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Getting connected professionally on Twitter was the single most important, most powerful thing I ever did as an educator. The most important. I’m not overstating that. And I can remember exactly when it happened. I was at the Indiana Conference on Learning in Indianapolis, and our state Superintendent of Public Instruction was giving the keynote [.].

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez By harnessing the smarts of the computer, new Google tools save time and reduce struggles with tech.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Steve Leinwand and Steve Fleischmann said: In mathematics instruction, a chasm exists between research and practice. For evidence of this gap, look no further than the mismatch between what research says about developing students’ conceptual mathematics understanding and what we actually do. An example is the way we teach math content in elementary and middle schools.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 26, 2016

So you’ve got an app idea. Now you need an app developer that can make that vision a reality. How do you find a software developer who understands what you’re reaching for and what you want the app to do? Since we’ve hunted for app developers twice–once for our Communication APPtitude iPad apps and then four years later when we wanted to develop web-based apps–we’ve learned a few things along the way.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Background Information. I recently learned, for the first time, about Aristotle’s belief that there were three basic activities of humans: theoria (thinking), poiesis (making), and praxis (doing). Corresponding to these activities were three types of knowledge: theoretical, the end goal being truth; poietical, the end goal being production; and practical, the end goal being action ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ).

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2016

By Wendy McMahon Experts share how to avoid data breaches, insufficient due diligence and risks unintentionally created by users.

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Tom Murray

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Today’s digital world is littered with drill and kill technology, much of it no different than a digital version of the worksheets of years past. Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I was racking my brains for ways to make handwriting lessons more fun. One of my students came up with the genius idea to film the process. This led me to think about creating GIFs. What is a GIF? A GIF is basically a series of images, combined into one and played quickly so it becomes animated. What did I do in the lesson? I asked my students to use their iPads to film 5 second clips of each other handwriting.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Here are ten of the top digital citizenship resources according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: 19 Topics to Teach in Digital Citizenship–and How. Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft. How to Teach 3rd Graders About Digital Citizenship. How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community. Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts. What a Teacher Can Do About Cyberbullying. 120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” – Carl Jung.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2016

I am typically in an aisle seat when flying. The more I fly the more I notice how picky people are when it comes to their seats. Every now and again I get asked if I would be willing to move my seat to accommodate a family member who, for whatever reasons, were reserved elsewhere on the plane. This particular week a mother asked me if I would move to her seat a few rows in front so that she could sit with her daughter.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Recently, as part of our maths unit on shape, my class went on a Google hunt! My class were studying quadrilaterals and after teaching them the definition of each one, they had to find real life examples on Google. Here are some they found: Finally, I asked the pupils to post the results on Google Classroom, so the learning was shared: What other things could you hunt Google for in a lesson?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2016

If you haven’t met Nepris before, here’s the abbreviated introduction: Nepris is an amazing source of experts available to meet virtually with your class. It’s like Skype but easier, less work, and more comprehensive. Check out my review here for more details. If you’re looking for professional experts to appear in your classroom, here’s what’s coming up: -->.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Games are a daily part of our existence for most of us. We play video games on our phones, our tablets, our computers, or TVs … almost everywhere. We take part in games through rewards programs, accumulating points with our favorite restaurants, hotels and stores to redeem. Elements of games are showing up more and [.].

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Technology has changed the classroom, but it doesn’t always change the student experience. More schools are using digital resources than ever, but too often these advances are simply used to make procedures more efficient for the instructor — while students are stuck in the same routine they’ve known for decades. A routine that, for many, is not tremendously engaging.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Haiku Deck is a great website and app, great for creating presentations. It’s available as an app from the Apple Appstore or on the website itself. My students used their iPads and it was really effective. How does it work? Have a look at my video tutorial to find out how to use it: Here is an example of one that a pupil in my class made for their topic work on coasts: Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that’s simple, beautiful and fun.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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 so many daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #94–8 Tips for Chromebooks in Class.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert. Goal: Encourage students to choose a cause and create digital posters, infographics, or videos to raise funds or awareness about this cause. This goal comes from Maria Theologidou from Greece. Below is Maria’s Buncee of the goal and a short video explaining her inspiration.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 25, 2016

This year marks my 17th in the classroom, and I have had the best first few weeks of my entire teaching career. For your reference, I am in the same classroom, I have the same team teacher, I have the same demographic of students, I am teaching the same classes (mostly 12th grade English), so.what is different? When it comes to what learning looks and feels like in my class, everything is different.

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