Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

We all have a memory of our favorite teacher, almost always, the one who made us think we could do the impossible. I left third grade and my third-grade teacher Ms. My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. In fact, she wasn’t any of the characteristics we often equate to great teachers. Effective teachers listen.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. What makes Riddle noteworthy is its emphasis on visual and interactive elements.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 1, 2024

Whether you’ve been teaching for a while or are new to the classroom, having these teacher hacks in your back pocket will help you stay organized, manage your classroom, and integrate technology seamlessly into your classroom. Organization Streamline your space and time with these teacher hacks.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This doesn’t stop with quizzes, tests, and memorizing facts. They inform teachers how to optimize time by teaching what students need to learn, not wasting time on what students already know. In this way, teachers know if they should review material, find a different approach to teaching a topic, or students are ready to move on.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 5, 2015

A teacher friend is already stressed–and the year is only half over. How to use it in your classroom: Even without the requirement for digital portfolios, this is a useful app for teachers. Consider how much classwork is still done with pencil and paper–tests, posters, reports, pop quizzes. Scanning app.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Collecting class data, asking for feedback on activities, and pushing out quizzes used to be laboriously accomplished by passing out paper documents, collecting them as they dribbled in, and then collating the data into a spreadsheet where you could sort and shake to come up with the useful information. feedback on events. class enrollments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher occasionally reviews an education website that caught our eye and seemed to have excellent value for readers. Teachers: For teachers, SplashLearn is completely free. Teachers: SplashLearn’s curriculum spans Kindergarten to Grade 5 for Math and Kindergarten to Grade 2 for Reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2022

I update these suggestions every few years to remind teachers there are easy ways to techify your lessons even on a tight schedule. I’d love to hear your suggestions in the comments about how you do this in your classes: Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Ask students, other teachers, the librarian, and parents what problems children face that stop them from completing tech assignments. Skip problems like, ‘I ran out of paper so I couldn’t print’ Collate these into a list on the classroom wall and let students see it every day. Where do you get this list?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Does s/he try to solve tech problems themselves before asking for teacher help? Does s/he use core classroom knowledge (i.e., Does s/he complete daily goals (a project, visit a website, watch a tutorial, etc.)? Does s/he save to their network folder? writing conventions) in tech projects? Does s/he work well in groups? I have a grade!

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Sub-category: Classroom management. Share this with other grade-level teachers, parents, even the library media specialist. Ask three then me’ is a popular effective approach to tech learning in the classroom. Category: ASSESSMENTS. Keyboarding speed and accuracy (or pre-keyboarding for youngers).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. You will find yourself most comfortable in the Google Classroom environment if the tools you use are aligned with Google Drive, your browser of choice is Chrome, and your digital device is a Chromebook. Designed by Freepik.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The top four education uses for Metaverse are Breakouts ( here’s a spreadsheet with a long list of Metaverse Breakouts by topic) , Scavenger hunts, timed quizzes, and Choose your own adventure stories. This is Classroom Management Made Simple . View all of your students’ Experiences in one place.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 7, 2024

Enhances Classroom Management If you want to enhance your classroom management , Canva is a game-changer. Canvas interactive presentation templates captivate students’ attention, turning lessons into visually appealing experiences with features like videos, animations, and quizzes that keep students actively involved.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

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: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These will be approved by the teacher. While this is student-paced and self-directed, the teacher overseas each benchmark. The teacher will make arrangements with interested senior centers for students to teach weekly classes. The teacher will determine what tools are available to be used in the class (i.e.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“Instead of rewiring our classrooms and using all available money toward replacing our legacy projectors, we were able to invest in BenQ Boards and propel our school district into the future of learning. BenQ Boards Increase Engagement and Interactivity BenQ Boards immediately introduce a new, hands-on way of learning in the classroom.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

It uses an experiential, self-paced environment to walk teachers through all the steps needed to create and use the Moodle platform and then provides nine hands-on “challenges” that users complete to assess their Moodle knowledge in a real-world (albeit sandbox) Moodle environment. One of these is the free VerveEd.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Plagiarism Peer Review 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Those geeky tech tools that we adults like to avoid are taking over the classroom. As a teacher for twenty five years (the last fifteen in technology), it has my head spinning. Here are the top 22 digital tools your colleagues are using in their classrooms: annotation tool. flipped classroom. online quizzes.

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Teacher Mood

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

As elementary teachers, we wear many hats and juggle countless responsibilities on a daily basis. From lesson planning to classroom management to grading, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tasks that demand our attention. I personally love using google forms to help with tedious grading tasks.

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MAY 2, 2017

It can include video, narration, audio, polls, screen captures, screencasts, photo albums, charts, tables, annotated notes, images, interactive quizzes, and more. Because most teachers already use PowerPoint, this feels natural. Mix provides a wide variety of quizzes that are easily and quickly embedded into the slideshow.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Teachers are fairly used to the notion of lost students—those children who never really speak up or engage. While it might seem a bit overwhelming to get through to those students, there are some ways to make them feel more comfortable in the classroom. Make the classroom a safe space. Safe Classroom Management'

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students. Collaborative learning involves complex classroom management, which is different from traditional lecturing. So, integrating collaborative activities effortlessly into the total course structure is imperative.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Substantial (501(c)3/Oakland, California) creates training, resources and information customized for each school to help substitute teachers be successful. makes it effortless for teachers to integrate music into lessons. Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Conducting regular assessments using real-time polls and quizzes allow students to understand how well they’re doing and where they may need to place additional effort. In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. But not just any feedback.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students. Collaborative learning involves complex classroom management, which is different from traditional lecturing. So, integrating collaborative activities effortlessly into the total course structure is imperative.

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Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Many schools have resorted to expensive and clunky classroom management software to help monitor behavior while students engage with technology. Locked Mode, a new feature in Google Forms and Classroom, allows educators to lock down the testing environment on school-managed Chromebooks. . Google now has a better solution.

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Quizzes Testing Classroom Management Assignments 68

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The authors of the Teaching Sociology article recommend teachers respond first by finding out if they have anxious students, how many, and what’s causing the anxiety. It’s a good recommendation because teachers can respond better if they know what they’re dealing with.

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MAY 23, 2018

Kiddom is designed to help teachers curate individual learning experiences with pages that are visual and easy-to-understand, and enable teachers to quickly determine student progress and where remediation is needed. Teachers know lesson plans never survive the first roll-out. This includes: ABCYa.com.

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MARCH 22, 2018

A few weeks ago, I got an email from Nancy with a great suggestion for an article topic: Google Classroom. She writes from her perspective as a Kansas City teacher who loves teaching and blogging. As well, in NearPod, students can go through the interactive quizzes and polls, actively participating in the classroom’s workflow.

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Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 94

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Conducting regular assessments using real-time polls and quizzes allow students to understand how well they’re doing and where they may need to place additional effort. In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. But not just any feedback.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The authors of the Teaching Sociology article recommend teachers respond first by finding out if they have anxious students, how many, and what’s causing the anxiety. It’s a good recommendation because teachers can respond better if they know what they’re dealing with.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 98

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APRIL 25, 2017

differentiation for unique student needs, meaning teachers can assign work based on student need–to the entire class, a small group, or an individual. involvement of all stakeholders in student learning including other teachers (outside of the one class) and parents. quizzes and polls. quizzes and polls. whiteboard.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

.” Sometimes we’d help them clean out their lockers or set up a system where they had to write down their homework in their assignment book and get it checked by every teacher throughout the day, and sometimes those interventions worked for a while, but looking back, I don’t remember any of it being particularly effective.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

Teachers and parents know all this and still, the Literacy Company reports that most teachers in classes of twenty+ students spend only five minutes a day reading, and 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine. For olders, it provides quizzes to test specific knowledge (like SAT prep).

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