Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges. A math teacher has a better chance of holding students’ attention during class time if they make technology part of the lesson.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

That was until a team of teachers, therapists and technology staff worked to find a solution. They attached a tablet loaded with text-to-talk software to her chair, and those educational technology tools changed her life.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Certain technologies lend themselves to increased collaboration in the K–12 classroom. Educators often rely on interactive displays, cloud software and screen-sharing tools to encourage students to work together. Still, as technology advances, schools are looking for new ways to push the boundaries of learning through collaboration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Technology Use and Wellness: How to Guide Students in a Digital Age The amount of time young Americans spend staring at a screen has reached unprecedented levels. As such, parents and educators must be more proactive in managing technology use to mitigate these health consequences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2023

Today’s tip: Software vs. Online Tools Category: Pedagogy Here are relevant criteria for evaluating software vs. online tools in your classroom: For more detail on comparing software and online tools, visit “ 8 Reasons For and 8 Against Revisiting Software in Your Classroom ” on Ask a Tech Teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. How to decide which tool is right for you?

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

A new tongue-operated device could mean K–12 students with disabilities who can’t use other types of assistive technology can still work with laptops, tablets and other classroom tools. While no one under 18 is using this very new tool, co-creator… The Bluetooth-enabled device uses sensors to convey directional commands.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

Most young adults and older professionals today rely heavily on technology. That’s one of the reasons why there are many tech tools every student should have to help them learn at home and in the classroom. . But technology can be an incredibly useful educational tool for students of all ages, even young elementary-level learners.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 13, 2022

In preparing students for the essential skills they need for the future, we have different methods and digital tools that we can bring into our classroom space. Depending on the methods or tools chosen, some of them do require more planning and preparation initially, but there are so many benefits that the time is definitely worth it.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

When it comes to choosing educational technology, K–12 IT leaders have the opportunity — after more than a year of using whatever was available to achieve learning — to choose tools intentionally. There are many technologies now for K–12 classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

With interactive tools like practice sets, students can receive one-to-one feedback and support without ever leaving an assignment. Achieving both aims at once sounds like a tall order, but adaptive learning technologies help to do… The average U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, former teacher and now education consultant, has suggestions for apps to help the history class: Essential Tech Tools for the History Class. As a history teacher, I used the summertime to experiment and attend online professional development technology sessions and tech camps.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. My boss mostly likes for me to introduce new tools to teachers during these opportunities. Do you have any free project based EdTech tools that you love?

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Thankfully, digital technology, or EdTech, has helped to change this, offering ways to gain a much more accurate sense of how engaged students are. One of the most exciting digital technology trends that are helping teachers with the task of measuring student engagement is student-centered i nsight technology.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Digitally-savvy students can include technology into their PBL, making collaboration easier and the final product more appealing. 7 Digital tools for project-based learning that any teacher can use. Here are seven of my favorite PBL tools that I believe any teacher can use in their classrooms as well: Glogster. Voicethread.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. Another way technology can be used to transform teaching and learning is by enhancing engagement and motivation. Finally, technology can be harnessed to transform teaching and learning by enhancing assessment and feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 13, 2023

This creates tension when I guide educators in exploring alternative instructional models that use technology strategically. These technology-enhanced instructional models require more from students in terms of self-regulation and self-directed learning. They also necessitate that teachers trust their students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2022

SmartBrief has an excellent article worth your time to read: Top 5 tech tools to maximize reading fluency. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 10, 2022

For children today, often thought of as digital natives, these tools have brought many benefits to the learning experience, including enhancing creativity amongst students. The post How Do Technological Tools Enhance Children’s Creativity? There are many facets to creativity. According to Kampylis and Berki (2014, p.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In case you are not familiar with neural networks or have not used AI-based tools, you will be surprised to learn that solutions like ChatGPT tend to use the principles of transformer architecture. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jodi Williams, discusses: A New Approach to Learning Through AI Tools. Content Analysis Learning. .

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There has always been technology in the classroom, even if it hasn’t always been welcome. Take a brief look at the history of technology’s uneasy relationship with education. Continue reading to learn everything you always wanted to know about technology in the classroom. . There has always been technology in the classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2022

While the connection between teachers and their students remains key, the right set of tools can link students to more options and turn the average K–12 classroom into a launch pad for a bright future. They believe technology can be a key tool for learning that helps students develop critical skills for the future.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Artificial Intelligence–AI–can greatly assist many mundane education tasks.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. New rubric guides classroom technology use. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

Modern technological advancements affect virtually every area of daily life. Today’s K­–12 educational institutions are looking to new digital tools to help improve student achievement and engagement while fostering collaborative learning environments for in-person and remote learners. While differences in location, age range and…

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2022

While previous reports found that remote learning resulted in learning disruptions in K–12, it turns out that the quality of technology students have access to plays a significant role in online learning outcomes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

And when it comes to exam prep, there’s no reason you can’t use technology to make the process more engaging for your students. Technology can be a valuable tool for accomplishing this goal, and in this post, we’ll take a look at seven ways educators can use technology to help students prepare for exams.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, for many, removing legacy technology and upgrading schools with more efficient tools is more than a math problem; it’s a solution. School leaders see technology as an investment in their students that can pay dividends far into the future. Sometimes, technology impacts in K–12 are fairly easy to appreciate.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

Over the years, I have noticed that student engagement tends to decrease in my classes around this time and I reach out to my personal learning network (PLN) for ideas or tools to boost engagement. By offering more choices in terms of digital tools for student engagement, we can better meet specific student interests and needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

Did you know there is a tool that will translate your parent newsletters? Readlee is an amazing literacy tool that enables teachers to go from collecting reading data a couple times a year to getting data each week (or day!) Teresa Magpayo Castro is a Technology TOSA for the Unified School District of Hacienda La Puente USD.

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