Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I have written in the past about parent questions concerning technology in education , but always from the perspective of a teacher at the classroom. So I asked my grad school students: What questions do parents ask you about technology and education ? Here are the top issues: How much screen time is appropriate for my child? .”

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2025

As PTA president at my childrens school, I rely on social media to keep families informed about everything from sports and musicals to important school updates. But Ive also seen firsthand how it can be distracting or be used to share comments that conflict with school values. But this is also a personal issue for me.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2019

Q&A: Tarah Luster Explains How to Teach K–12 Students Digital Responsibility. With easier access to social media platforms through mobile devices, students are spending significantly more time online. While technology can open many doors for learning, it can also be a breeding ground for cyberbullying and identity theft. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 29, 2024

It is important for children to know how to be safe while navigating the digital landscape. Here are ideas from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: How to Explain Cybersecurity for Children Cybersecurity plays a crucial role in our daily lives and will continue to gain importance. Educators can prepare students to protect themselves online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2024

How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar Modeled after Apple’s popular tech support stations, a Genius Bar in a school setting is a student-run help desk where peers provide tech support, advice on digital tools, and assistance with various tech-related issues.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 3, 2021

Beyond the adjustments related to instruction, it was challenging to get into a workflow and figure out how to best provide for students at home and in the classroom space. It is a tool that I use to create presentations, welcome messages, social media graphics, interactive lessons, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 15, 2024

With the rise of smartphones and other technological advancements, keeping track of your child’s location has become more convenient than before. Ensure they know how to reach you or get help if they’re in trouble. Stay updated on their social media activity, online friendships, and potential risks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2023

Our Ask a Tech Teacher team has several ways to track down your favorite educators from years past: How to Find Old Elementary School Teachers Do you remember the teachers who shaped your educational journey? But now, with the advent of social media, tracking down an old teacher is easier than ever.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 5, 2020

At the same time, teachers often feel as if they’re competing with technology for the attention of students. However, I can see how technology can be both a distractor and a positive factor. Technology isn’t going anywhere. Technology also enables community-building inside your school or classroom.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There are many benefits of technology in the classroom, so we’ve picked five of the most significant for this handy list. Read on for the top 5 advantages to technology in the classroom or visit our education solutions page for more insights on EdTech. But for those who embrace it, the advantages are virtually limitless.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Researcher Yoram Eshet developed an evolving taxonomy of the many skills needed to be digitally literate beyond the understanding required for basic access to various technologies. As new technologies are typically highly visual, understanding graphic layouts (and how to interact with them) is essential.

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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. Should I show teachers how to be better organized with Google Keep/Tasks, find a free new tool for them to use in the classroom? Do whatever you want.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2022

How Can Truth Win? The roots of misinformation about Russia’s invasion stretch back further than social media. How do you tell? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Here the article: TikTok Is Feeding My Students Fake News About Ukraine. Fake News or Fact?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve seen how technology motivates learners of all ages to find their voice, connect with language learners around the world, and have access to knowledge and resources in multiple languages. As technology becomes more accessible we need to continue to find meaningful ways for our language learners to use it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

3 – Social Media Tools in Teaching – Using Them the Right Way I’ve seen social media used in ways that aren’t very safe or effective. For example, when teachers post their video conferencing links publicly on social media, they are unknowingly allowing unwanted attendees to enter their online classrooms.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 24, 2025

While tech has brought a lot of exciting changes to education, there are some real disadvantages of technology in the classroom. So read on for some of the key disadvantages of technology in the classroom and a few teacher-tested strategies that can help. So how do you make the most of EdTech without it backfiring?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2022

If you want a job coding, you have to know how to get around a database, and that means SQL. One of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew has suggestions on how to test it out and what are the most important elements to learn: How High School Students Can Try Out SQL and 4 Things They Should Learn About It . How to Manipulate Data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here is how to use comics in your classes: Open the comic creator you use in your class. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. You can also share it to most social media. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Creating a Highly Engaging Lesson Plan “In this course, you will examine how to develop and execute highly engaging lesson plans regardless of what grade or subject you teach.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning. Technology helps educators give each student the attention he or she needs, through tools such as online learning modules, personal tablets and, now, virtual and augmented reality. . Immersive Learning Technology Helps Students Practice Soft Skills.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

How to Teach Cyber Safety in Kindergarten. But how do you teach a child as young as 5 how to safely navigate such technology? The curriculum focuses on media balance and well-being, privacy and security, building an online reputation, bullying and more. We know kids are using technology. marquita.brown_tC0Z.

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ViewSonic Education

JULY 21, 2024

On National Geographic Kids, children can choose science topics that interest them, like gemstones, endangered species, or how to help protect planet Earth. On my social media, he shares all of his classroom ideas, technology tips, engagement strategies, lessons, laughs and more.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Others claim that emotional support and social engagement are the primary drivers of using social media more often. The solution: teaching students how to use technology. In this way, they won’t feel the need to check out mentally or to distract themselves with technology. Teaching mindfulness.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They need to learn how to get better at their job and juggle all the new requirements that the modern classroom and educational technologies bestow upon us. Knowledgeable teachers are key to the success of any technological or pedagogical initiative in the classroom. Read more: How to succeed with online PD for teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They can show you have to use technology to unlock deeper student relationships with your students. So many people ask me how to respond to Artificial Intelligence and my response is always, that we need to shift our pedagogical practices into the classroom to the time-tested research-based best practices. Thank you for being helpful!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 27, 2020

They are using social media and technology to spread the word and gather momentum. This was the topic of my recent 10 minute keynote for the ELT Day for Puerto Rico conference , entitled, How to Inspire the Next World Changers. However, these movements are mostly outside of school. Find the slides and resources below.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 14, 2021

With so much use of technology, especially during the past school year, we need to make sure that we are helping students to build digital citizenship skills in our classrooms. We need to create opportunities for students to become more digitally aware and literate, and to be responsible when using technology. Common Sense Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

Yesterday I demonstrated how to get AI feedback. I want to take those of you not using AI (yet) into what it looks like to interact with AI, both how I'm conversing with AI and how it responds. I want you to see my issues and how I proceed at each step of the process. But now I want to integrate AI feedback.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. How to build your global classroom in 4 steps. Having the technology without a solid lesson plan is no better than having a good lesson plan, but poor tech implementation. Professor Jennifer V.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

And when you’re ready, consider how to bring your passions (and your students’) into the classroom with passion projects and student interest projects. As you do, consider how to bring these types of interests into your classroom. Learn how to bring those in for students. Take a Social Media. PD Connection.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2022

million views from visitors, about 10,000 followers who have read some or all of our 2,731 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 3rd Grade. 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2022

Here are great ideas for how to address the difficult topic of war in the Ukraine, from Ask a Tech Teacher collaborator, Christian Miraglia, recently retired from teaching after thirty-six years: 24/7. As events unfold in Ukraine, people want to know how the situation might play out. So how does a teacher navigate these conversations?

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

With 95 percent of teenagers in possession of mobile devices, students are constantly sharing and searching through social media platforms. . Because students are inevitably exposed to the online world, it is important that adults teach them how to be responsible digital citizens — to protect both themselves and their peers.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In other words, how to be a digital citizen. can backfire because children and teens are naturally curious and will try some things on their own, such as signing up for social media accounts way below the minimum age requirement. How to actively seek news and create them. How to put technological literacy to work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2022

How to incorporate podcasting into your curriculum this school year. How to incorporate podcasting into your class curriculum. Many schools today have access to similar technology that can be used to create podcasts in the classroom. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Planning an episode.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

You don’t have to be a fortune teller to predict that Educational Technology is the future of our learning and education system. While some teachers are still grappling with the intricacies of EdTech, Gen Z kids are more than eager to welcome technology into the classroom. Here’s where Edtech comes into the picture.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Birdsong says K–12 institutions are hampered by interrelated challenges , including providing a technology-driven education to students while protecting student and staff privacy and finding funds to address escalating risks. Begin by teaching them about privacy concerns and how to manage their digital identities.

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