Tech Teacher Appreciation Week If you wonder what’s so hard about being a teacher, what with technology, computers, AI assistants, look at this list of challenges they faced just last year:

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04.05.2024

How Laser Cutter Brings New Inspiration to the Classroom

STEM education–Science, technology, engineering, and math–sounds intimidating, but is actually one of the most satisfying learning experiences students can participate in. Makeblock (an…

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03.05.2024

Ethics and the Use of AI in Essays

Is using AI in your essay writing unethical and a potential reason your teacher may debate your work’s authenticity? Let’s find out the truth through the Ask a Tech Teacher team: Ethics and the Use…

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02.05.2024

What You Might Have Missed in April–What’s up in May

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry Most Teens Think AI W…

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01.05.2024

AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. Unveil the evolving future of writing education with AI through these suggestions from the Ask a…

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30.04.2024

How to Improve Essay Writing Skills–Tips and Strategies

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here are four tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team to get you starte…

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27.04.2024

11 Ways to Become a Navy Officer and a Gentleman

This is a new Ask a Tech Teacher series on College and Career with a focus on military options. We’ll start with this how-to on becoming an officer and a gentleman: As the economy gets worse,…

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26.04.2024

Quality of education in Florida private schools for foreigners.

Quality of education in Florida private schools for foreigners. The quality of education in private schools in Florida for international students is quite diverse and offers numerous opportunities …

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25.04.2024

How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students Have you ever considered that your diet could be the secret weapon in your quest for academic success? It’s not just about fueling late-night s…

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24.04.2024

The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students

The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students Motivation plays a role not only in people’s choice to get involved in their goals but also in their behavior, persistence, and,…

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23.04.2024

19 Online News Resources for Kids

Here are popular online resources to teach about news sources for kids (click here for updates to this list): Allsides (news stories compared across multiple political perspectives) Breaking News–f…

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20.04.2024

Earth Day Class Activities

Every year, the United Nations recognizes April 22nd as International Mother Earth Day. It is a day we can all participate in making our air clean, our water fresh and our land unlittered rather th…

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19.04.2024

Chronic Absenteeism has become a big problem in schools

School absenteeism has been one of the small but chronic problems in the past. Since the pandemic, it is so much more, to the point it is a front-of-mind issue that schools scramble to address. Her…

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18.04.2024

Most Teens Think AI Won’t Hurt Their Mental Health; Teachers Disagree

Generative AI is an exploding influence in education with lots of potential but unknown outcomes. Most people focus on its impact on school research, lesson plans–that sort–but another …

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17.04.2024

Sinclair launches free cybersecurity training for K-12 administrators

Cybersecurity threats in K-12 schools are a growing concern as educational institutions increasingly rely on technology for teaching, learning, and administrative purposes. Some common cybersecurit…

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16.04.2024

Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills

The Cambridge Dictionary defines ‘essay’ as” a short piece of writing on a particular subject Most students write their first essay by third grade, probably enjoy the process beca…

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13.04.2024

Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry

I–like many teachers–do a lot of prep for my teaching, often requiring digital desktop publishing platforms. Between newsletters for parents, announcements on social media, communicatio…

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12.04.2024

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from previous months: I’ve been blogging for about sixteen years, some professionally …

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11.04.2024

Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re al…

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10.04.2024

4 Innovative Ways to Enhance Reading Comprehension with AI Tools

I’m excited about this post from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew–AI Tools for reading comprehension. There are so many directions this could go! 4 Innovative Ways to Enhance Reading Compreh…

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09.04.2024

Engaging All Learners: Expanding High School Options for Success

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. How is it possible to accomplish tha…

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06.04.2024

22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

Life often interferes with work. Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. I tho…

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04.04.2024

What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: 35 Resources for Read Across America Day Starlink–What is it? Why use it? Create Simple Shapes in Excel 13 Tips to Solve Unusual Problems 4 Reasons …

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03.04.2024

Subscriber Special: 2nd Grade Bundle of Lesson Plans

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. Not a subscriber? Click the button below. 2nd Grade Bundle of Lesson Plans 4-2-23 through 4-7-…

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02.04.2024

Facing Fourth Grade: Tips for Parents Dealing with Academic and Social Challenges

Dealing with academic and social challenges in fourth grade can be challenging for parents. There are several strategies parents can use to support their children effectively. Here are ideas from t…

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01.04.2024

World Backup Day

World Backup Day–March 31st Every Year March 31st is called World Backup Day. At least once a year, I remind you to backup your data files to an external drive (like a flash drive). This is one tha…

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30.03.2024

Invention Convention 2024 is coming

Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 invention education curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem-identification, proble…

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29.03.2024

35+ Easter Websites and Apps

Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and…

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28.03.2024

Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring

A few spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities: 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring Books from Scholastic about Spring Life cycle of a snake Life Cycle Lesson Plans Life Cycl…

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27.03.2024

A Holiday Easter Story in Word for Grades 2-7

Reinforce fiction writing–characters, plot, setting, climax–with a short story in MS Word or another word processing tool. Then use color, borders, and pictures to enhance the words. Cl…

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26.03.2024

Cultivating a culture of collaboration in engineering education

National Engineers Week is just behind us. The Ask a Tech Teacher team has one more article discussing an oft-forgotten piece of engineering education: culture: Cultivating a culture of collaborati…

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23.03.2024

Tech Tip #5: Where Did the Taskbar Go?

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how …

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22.03.2024

#9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade

Before trying this lesson, start with Photoshop for Fifth Graders: The First Step is Word, Autofixes, cloning, and cropping. Don’t worry. It’s not hard–just the basics. Ready? Let’s start with wha…

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21.03.2024

Subscribe to my Blog–Get Special Gifts Every Month

If you subscribe to my blog, you are eligible for specials on tech ed books and ebooks every month. Here are some of the specials subscribers have received: 5 for $25 on tech themed bundles Discoun…

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20.03.2024

Keyboarding Pedagogy

Keyboarding for Youngers A while ago, I participated in an online discussion about keyboarding for kids. The host thought it would be a yawner, but any tech teacher knows keyboarding is a controver…

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19.03.2024

What’s a Backchannel and Is it Right For Your Class?

A backchannel refers to a secondary, often informal, communication channel that runs parallel to the main communication channel. In the classroom, it provides students with an outlet to: ask questi…

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16.03.2024

9 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

St. Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on March 17th to honor St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, credited with bringing Christianity to the country. The day i…

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15.03.2024

Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day

Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th: Pi Day and World Maths Day Pi Day Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 s…

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14.03.2024

How to Automate an MLA Heading

How to Automate an MLA Heading in Word This one is quick–how to create a macro that automatically inserts an MLA-appropriate heading: Have students log in. Macros go with the profile of the user, n…

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13.03.2024

4 Reasons to use Word Problems and 9 Online Resources

Word problems are popular and fun methods of teaching math and English in many schools. Why? See which of these you agree with: Real-world relevance: They present scenarios that make concepts more …

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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

How Laser Cutter Brings New Inspiration to the Classroom

Ethics and the Use of AI in Essays

What You Might Have Missed in April–What’s up in May

AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

How to Improve Essay Writing Skills–Tips and Strategies

11 Ways to Become a Navy Officer and a Gentleman

Quality of education in Florida private schools for foreigners.

How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students

19 Online News Resources for Kids

Earth Day Class Activities

Chronic Absenteeism has become a big problem in schools

Most Teens Think AI Won’t Hurt Their Mental Health; Teachers Disagree

Sinclair launches free cybersecurity training for K-12 administrators

Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills

Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry

Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans

4 Innovative Ways to Enhance Reading Comprehension with AI Tools

Engaging All Learners: Expanding High School Options for Success

22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

Subscriber Special: 2nd Grade Bundle of Lesson Plans

Facing Fourth Grade: Tips for Parents Dealing with Academic and Social Challenges

World Backup Day

Invention Convention 2024 is coming

35+ Easter Websites and Apps

Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring

A Holiday Easter Story in Word for Grades 2-7

Cultivating a culture of collaboration in engineering education

Tech Tip #5: Where Did the Taskbar Go?

#9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade

Subscribe to my Blog–Get Special Gifts Every Month

Keyboarding Pedagogy

What’s a Backchannel and Is it Right For Your Class?

9 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day

How to Automate an MLA Heading

4 Reasons to use Word Problems and 9 Online Resources

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