Category: Teacher resources

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in December. Bear in mind–it’s a short month!

1. Holiday Gifts for Teachers
2. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science? A Teacher’s Perspective
3. Have Santa Call Your Kids
4. 16 Holiday Websites and 13 Projects For Your Student
5. Where did Christmas Come From?
6. End-of-Year Maintenance: 19 Steps To A Speedier Computer
7. End of Year Maintenance: Update Your Online Presence
8. End-of-year Maintenance: Image and Back-up Digital Devices
9. Happy Holiday!

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-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Last year, only 61 percent of high school students who took the ACT English achievement test were deemed college-ready. In math, it was 41 percent. We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. Many of us find students benefit greatly when the school employs curriculum-based assessments to measure progress. Why? Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning.

Unfortunately, most textbooks offer no easy way to measure overall progress toward completing state or national standards, nor do they backfill for a lack of knowledge. Both of these are critical pieces to the successful accomplishment of learning goals.

This is where Mastery Education’s Measuring Up can help.

What is Measuring Up?

Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards.

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November is a short month, with a week off to celebrate the holiday. Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher:

• Book Review: Repositioning Educational Leadership
• Hour of Code activities
• Let’s talk about Measuring Up–from Mastery Education
• Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning
• The Power of Symbols–What does ‘Turkey’ mean?

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-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, a Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, Rowe-Delamagente.

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular.

Today: Organizing your classroom

Overview

18 webinars (more added as they become available), approx. 30 minutes each, show how to set up your classroom to be tech-infused.

What’s Included

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Here are the most-read posts for the month of September:

1. The 101 of Research for Kids
2. Differentiating with Personalized Learning
3. Learning Strategies for your Classroom
4. How to Teach Critical Thinking
5. What to Consider When Assigning Homework
6. New Ways to Gamify Learning
7. Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?
8. High School Technology Curriculum Coming!
9. Great Back to School Activities
10. Mouse and Trackpad Websites for your Classroom

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Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in October:

• Resources for Dyslexia Awareness Month
• Resources for Digital Citizenship Week
• Resources for National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
• Qualities of an effective teacher
• Purpose Driven Learning: Myths, Problems, and Education Applications
• Online Classes
• A list of education advisors you can trust
• Halloween projects, websites, apps, and a costume

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Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in September:

• What to Consider When Assigning Homework
• More for Back to School
• Tech Ed Resources for your Classroom
• Differentiate with Personalized Learning
• New Ways to Gamify Learning
• Print vs. Digital–the lowdown
• Positive Reinforcement in Class
• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Looking for Trusted Advisors?

All of these are from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew (with occasional guest posts):

We are a group of tech ed teachers who work together to offer you tech tips, advice, pedagogic discussion, lesson plans, and anything else we can think of to help you integrate tech into your classroom. Stop by and say hi!

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in August:

• Wikispaces has closed. Now what?
• 11 Back-to-school Activities for the First Month of School
• Teaching Digital Rights and Responsibilities
• Websites to teach Moune Skills
• Plan a memorable Back-to-School Night
• The Importance of a Morning Meeting
• Today’s Meet has closed. Alternatives?
• College-level learning online
• How to Teach Critical Thinking
• Tech-ed Resources for your Class
• New Ways to Gamify Learning
• Great Ways to Make Your Class Paper-free
• Differentiating with Personalized Learning
• Back-to-school Activities for teh First Month of School
• Features to make your LMS a social learning platform

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MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens

This college-credit class starts in one week–Monday, August 6th! Last chance to sign up. Click this link; scroll down to MTI 557 and click for more information and to sign up.

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Here are the most-read posts for the month of May:

1.  How to Wrap up Tech for the School Year
2. Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?
3. Kiddom’s Content Library Makes Differentiation Faster Than Ever
4. Positive focus; Positive behaviors
5. EdTech Magazine’s 50 Must-read K-12 IT Blogs
6. 10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year
7. 5 Best Websites for IELTS Exam Prep
8. Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

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