Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2025

How to use Digital Quick Writes This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: summarized by NoteGPT Summary In this video, Jacqui Murray discusses the concept of quick writes as a dynamic and engaging way to teach writing in the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

What began as a simple classroom project to encourage reading evolved into a movement that amplified student voices, built confidence, and connected learners across cultures. This video review project began with a simple idea: Let students choose a book they love, and instead of writing about it, speak about it. The assignment?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

With Immersive Reader, they go back day after day, and then they get mad at you when the project is over because they want more time to add to their writing. We sat down with Felix to learn exactly how Immersive Reader helps her students and why it’s led them to demand more reading and writing time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

—Katharine Meyer As residential colleges grapple with decisions about whether and how to continue offering online and hybrid courses , they may benefit from taking a look at student-engagement practices commonly used by their online-only counterparts. It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

Group 4-6 students on a shared Google Slide presentation. Either assign students a particular slide (by writing their names at the bottom of each slide) or allow students to select the slide they want to work on. Teachers can model how to sound out a word, solve a problem, or construct a piece of writing.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Complex Problem Solving: Tasks that involve higher-order thinking and problem-solving, such as math word problems, scientific experiments, or coding projects, often require different amounts of time for students to analyze, understand, and solve. These cognitively challenging tasks will require more time for some students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

(CHICAGO) – PowerNotes , a provider of tools that help students and professionals create high-quality research quickly and efficiently, has added Composer, an advanced, web-based word processor, to its PowerNotes+ platform. The new tool provides a semi-proctored environment for organizing research and writing in an AI-enabled environment.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Blended Learning Benefit #1: Student Agency. What: Student agency is the students’ ability to make key decisions in the learning experience. Pain Point: Teachers are frustrated by a lack of student engagement and motivation. Differentiating the product, or how students share or demonstrate their learning.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I was thrilled when these two inspiring educators provided me with an early copy of their book and asked if I would read it and write the forward. They are designed to combine educational technology with specific teaching protocols that promote active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in the classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

DE Original Series Boosting Literacy Skills With The Writer’s Block, middle school students build grammar, literary analysis, and communication skills with relatable hosts and captivating storytelling.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers learn so much from listening to their students engaging in conversation or observing them as they work through a problem or task. It’s helpful to dissect the standards, identify the parts, and use those to create success criteria in order to create clarity for students about what they are working toward.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

The teacher uses simple, concrete examples and visual aids to help students grasp the changes in properties that indicate a chemical reaction. Students engage in a guided practice where they observe a reaction and discuss the changes they see. Example: Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.1

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Vicki’s focus is inspiring classroom teachers and administrators who are passionate about student engagement and excellence with world-class ways to use technology, nurture students’ well-being, and the joy of being a teacher. Dr. Alex Marrero has served as the Superintendent of Denver Public Schools since Spring 2021.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

While most of my students choose to come to our school because we focus on math, science, and STEM—the subjects they enjoy—I am tasked with helping them develop their reading and writing skills. So, how do I keep my math, science, and STEM-minded students engaged in the language arts?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. Here are four fun ways to get students engaged that worked for me in my classroom: 1.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

When I was in college, I started writing a holiday newsletter to include with my Christmas cards. As I began to write, I realized that 2020 for me was a year of extremes. 7 Student agency is the best way to increase engagement and motivation. Student engagement and teacher engagement are reciprocal.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I explained to my students that the goal of these stations was to have fun and stretch our minds creatively. Unfortunately, it’s rare to see students engage in play at school after they’ve left elementary school, but secondary students need this time too.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

With a rapidly growing student population and a broader range of course offerings, maintaining a high standard of personalized learning becomes a daunting task. AI’s potential to revolutionize the education space goes beyond merely enhancing student engagement. However, this is where AI can make a significant difference.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

My students found it tedious to write a summary every time they read, yet I needed a strategy to gain insight into their reading comprehension. This was when I realized a choice board format could provide students with the agency to choose an activity that would work for them. Response to Reading Choice Board.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

As technology has evolved, writing documents has also evolved. Before programs existed to streamline the IEP writing process, creating IEPs was once a daunting task of paper and pencil. Not only has the process of writing the IEP evolved, but IEPs are becoming technology-driven.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Read (or reread) and reflect on Mingus’ “ Dreaming Accountability ” (10 minutes) Write to yourself for a few minutes and then share thoughts with one another. How might this structure support student engagement, learning, and growth in your courses? What has supported a positive kind of accountability for you? Mingus, Mia.

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Jodi Durgin

JUNE 1, 2025

Patrick’s Day craft and writing paper resource is the perfect pairing for any St. Patrick’s Day-themed writing prompt. Students use the included craft printables to create their very own leprechaun. Patrick’s Day Writing and Craft Project Resource? Patrick’s Day Writing Prompts Below are 10 St.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And when that happens, were all more engaged, staying on task and working together. Its those little shots of student engagement that really keep you going throughout the day. Something so simple excites students when they have a little bit of choice in the matter.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. Drawing in college: Using sketchnoting to support student engagement.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. It was exciting to see how the addition of a single device enabled my students to drive their learning and engage in meaningful student-centered learning activities.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

According to a Gallup Student Poll (2015) of public school children, 47% report being “disengaged” at school. Too many classrooms are not set up with the intention of engaging students. ” As a teacher, it’s my job to engage student curiosity, interest and passion in relation to the curriculum.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

I explain why I believe it’s important to place students at the center of learning in the classroom and how I use blended learning strategies and technology to create a student-centered learning experience. I emphasize that the way students communicate is changing and that directly impacts how I approach the design of our class.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

For example, drawing the initial problem (graph with a circle), drawing the vertical line, marking the two intersection points, and writing the formula for a function. Not only does this allow for elaboration, but also better retention from writing down responses in their own handwriting and an opportunity to self-test.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

As Katie Novak and I write in UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (coming out May 29!), these are critical skills students need to develop if they are going to become expert learners who are motivated, resourceful, strategic, and capable of advocating for themselves.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2024

“Imagine Learning is dedicated to solving real problems for educators by integrating AI to reduce teachers’ workloads, which will enable them to focus more on direct student engagement,” said Sari Factor , Vice Chair and Chief Strategy Officer of Imagine Learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

It is important to build this type of classroom environment so students can feel safe to respond freely and ask questions all throughout the semester (Ricevuto & McLaughlin, 2022), which of course, increases student engagement. Engaging students on the first day and every day: 7 strategies for connecting in the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

For example, drawing the initial problem (graph with a circle), drawing the vertical line, marking the two intersection points, and writing the formula for a function. Not only does this allow for elaboration, but also better retention from writing down responses in their own handwriting and an opportunity to self-test.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

With a rapidly growing student population and a broader range of course offerings, maintaining a high standard of personalized learning becomes a daunting task. AI’s potential to revolutionize the education space goes beyond merely enhancing student engagement. However, this is where AI can make a significant difference.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2021

He has found it to be very useful in keeping his students engaged and in helping them “see” the information and to process it better. I noticed in all three events the facilitator used a document camera in the instruction. My husband and I have been teaching virtually this year, and even his top remote instructional tool is a doc cam.

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