Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 7, 2025

Since we started Ask a Tech Teacher fifteen years ago, we’ve had almost 6.3 million views and 3300 comments from about 11,500 followers who read some or all of our 2,454 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ) Edtech Reviews Lesson plans If you’ve just arrived at Ask a Tech Teacher, sta

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast , I sit down with Jordan Shapiro, author of The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World. We tackle one of the most pressing challenges for parents and teachers today: how to help kids develop healthy relationships with their devices.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

As K12 schools increasingly embrace the cloud, some are taking a hybrid cloud approach while others are fully migrating applications and data to public cloud providers and Software as a Service solutions. As they do so, they can face adoption challenges.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2025

The post Introducing the Teacher Leader Corps Toolkit: Advancing Digital Equity through Teacher Leadership appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 7, 2025

Over the past two years, 40 states and the District of Columbia have adopted guidelines or legislation mandating the use of Science of Reading (SoR) methodology in school districts. These changes often come with high expectations and tight timelines, requiring leaders to overcome significant challenges such as limited resources, deeply ingrained instructional beliefs, and complex implementation barriers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 3, 2025

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January 8th-11th the 53-page PDF, “25 Digital Tools for the Classroom” for free! “25 Digital Tools for the Classroom” is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in a K-8 classroom. This includes popular digital tools such as blogs, backchannel devices, vocabulary decoding tools, avatars, digital portfolios, digital notetaking, as well as others you may n

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BRAHAM, Minn. It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific notation, but fifteen minutes in, some students had lost focus.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2025

The post Building Real-World Skills Through Social Entrepreneurship in the Classroom appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 7, 2025

Over the past two years, 40 states and the District of Columbia have adopted guidelines or legislation mandating the use of Science of Reading (SoR) methodology in school districts. These changes often come with high expectations and tight timelines, requiring leaders to overcome significant challenges such as limited resources, deeply ingrained instructional beliefs, and complex implementation barriers.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2025

Office phones have come a long way in a relatively short period of time. And with the introduction of Internet Protocol phones, new features make those devices more akin to computers than simple phone systems. There are only two things that have held back IP phone deployments: connectivity issues and complexity. The new Cisco IP Phone 8865 solves both of those issues, making it perfect for deployment in places such as K12 schools that dont have sufficient IT staff to manage the devices or highly

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 6, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter School leadership is not about ego; its about transformation. Whether you're striving to improve school culture, make assessment meaningful, or rebuild your reputation as a leader, this episode is packed with practical insights to guide you in your school leadership growth journey.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. On the 12th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on using engaging technologies for real-world connections. Key points: Interactive technologies can engage students in real-world problems Meet the maker: High school student develops robot guide dogs How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum For more on makerspaces, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub The era of COVID-19 brought about the largest

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 6, 2025

Teachers have the power to grow student agency through interactive dialogue in their classrooms, one proven strategy is through Socratic Circles.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI. It turns out, those changes arent much different than what worked to deter previous cheating methods. Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

JANUARY 1, 2025

Differentiated instruction is a cornerstone of effective teaching, but it’s also one of the most challenging aspects of our profession. It requires us to tailor our instruction to meet the unique needs of every student in our classroom, which can feel overwhelming, especially with limited time and resources. Students require different levels of support, scaffolding, The post Tech Tools to Support Differentiation in the Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler.

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techlearning

JANUARY 2, 2025

The future is unwritten, but these aspects of education are almost certain to see change in 2025.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Key points: Digital literacy is a key skill–but it remains a challenge for U.S. students Enhancing media literacy skills in the age of AI 5 strategies to close the critical thinking gap For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub U.S. eighth-graders scored at the international average for computer and information literacy but below the international average for computational thinking, according to the results of an international study focusing on how prepared

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ignitionEDU

JANUARY 1, 2025

I have created a number of Chrome extensions to meet specific needs of my district. This one just published came from a question on the CDW Education Collaborative (paid membership required for the collab). This extension hides the trending searches suggestions on the search box on google.com. Sometimes the “Trending searches” suggestions on Google Search are not necessarily school-appropriate.

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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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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2025

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Generation Alpha: Digital natives, visual learners, short attention spans, struggles with face-to-face skills. These are just a few characteristics of the current generation of students that educators must consider as they develop their lessons. But now that AI has become ubiquitous in both home and work environments, administrators need to think about how their schools will integrate AI into their classrooms so that students are prepared for jobs of the

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 6, 2025

This week Shifting Schools is sharing another podcast with you: Women Talkin’ ‘Bout AI ????? In this episode of Women Talkin’ ‘Bout AI, host Dr. Kimberly Becker welcomes Tricia Friedman, an all-around educational innovator who’s been doing really future-forward and inclusive work in AI literacy and community building. In this powerful conversation, international educator and neuroqueer futurist Tricia uncovers the profound potential of AI in education while maintain

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techlearning

JANUARY 6, 2025

Designed to harness the best of social media, Perusall is a digital annotation tool that helps students to complete assigned readings.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Key points What students learn must change alongside new technologies and career demands Early STEM career awareness drives future success for students Real-life work experiences: The unseen curriculum for high school success For more news on career exploration, visit eSNs Innovative Teaching hub According to the Post Graduation Readiness Report by YouScience, 83 percent of students cannot connect the skills from school to future employment.

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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2025

Being superintendent of a public school system is one of the hardest jobs in America. One hundred of the 500 largest school districts in the country turned over superintendents in the past year, amid declining student achievement. This kind of churn begs the question: Do school boards understand what a superintendent must do to drive and achieve system change?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

In 2024, EdSurge published several dozen stories about early care and education, up from just a handful when we first began covering the early years five years ago. Conditions of the field continue to be extremely challenging, with crisis-centered headlines filling our digital pages just as they do in other news outlets. But as the pandemic continues to recede into the past and with it, the historic funding that followed many of our stories in 2024 looked at programs and people offering a path

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 6, 2025

Because schools are under increased pressure to improve, there's a tendency to want immediate results from any innovation. Success only comes when schools have clear vision and purpose, full collaboration, and a commitment to monitor and adjust, write Williamson and Blackburn. The post Leading Innovative Instructional Change first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Thinking of migrating to Bluesky? Looking to finally join a social media platform? Here’s what you need to know.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Key points: Explore the infinite realms of edtech at FETC 2025 How AI can unleash student curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking 3 tips to authentically engage students in real-world STEM learning For more news on FETC, visit eSN’s LIVE@FETC 2025 hub At the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), forward-thinking educators and edtech leaders gather to brainstorm strategies and promote innovations that transform and teaching and learning in their classrooms, schools, and dis

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Students who were chosen to receive tutoring in Washington, D.C., had missed more than 30 days of school, on average. A Stanford study showed that tutoring could improve their attendance by about one day. Credit: Staff photo by Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images In early 2024, initial reports indicated that tutoring might not only help kids catch up academically after the pandemic but could also combat chronic absenteeism.

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SecurEdge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Update: This content was first published in February 2024 and has been meticulously revised with new information to offer maximum value. Tech conferences are more than just gatherings for like-minded individuals. Attending IT events can expose you to a wider audience, including potential customers and investors.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 1, 2025

For educators committed to creating inclusive and supportive school environments, Belonging in School serves up 11 evidence-based modules with actions and strategies and a highly visual style designed to help students feel included, writes 6th grade teacher Ruth A.S. Miller. The post Creating a Place Where Kids Feel They Belong first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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