A few years ago, I did a poll on the meaning of the word ‘turkey’. This was to demonstrate how powerful symbols are to your students and do so with an authentic use of technology…

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20.11.2024

Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plan…

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19.11.2024

Tech Tip #150: Google as a Dictionary

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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16.11.2024

14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them (click for updated links): Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app) C…

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15.11.2024

4 Critical Pieces of Every Lesson and How to Gamify Them video

Gamification of Education This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: –summarize with NoteGPT Summary Jacqui Murray di…

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14.11.2024

How to Put Kindness in Your Classes

World Kindness Day, celebrated on November 13th each year, promotes kindness across the globe and emphasizes compassion toward others. This day encourages us to look beyond boundaries, religions, a…

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13.11.2024

Geography Awareness Week: November 11-15, 2024

Promoted by National Geographic, here’s what you should know about Geography Awareness Week: Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or…

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12.11.2024

A Day to Remember Veterans

As many of you know, I have two wonderful children–one a CDR in the Navy and one a SFC In the Army. I also have a long family history of relatives who fought for America. So today, I salute t…

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09.11.2024

National STEM Day Nov. 8th

National STEM Day is November 8, 2024, the unofficial holiday that celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education throughout the United States. Many add ‘art&#82…

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08.11.2024

Tech Tip #138: 7 Ways to Evaluate Websites

169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Pare…

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07.11.2024

Tips for Supporting Students With Special Needs Using Technology

As you prepare for the holiday break and then a new year, it’s a great time to think about resources available in your classes for students with special needs. Ask a Tech Teacher has a long l…

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07.11.2024

26 Online LMS Resources

Here are 26 resources to help you select the right LMS for your school (click for updates to list):

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05.11.2024

What You Might Have Missed in October–What’s up in November

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: ASVAB or a Service Academy? You Decide. Warm-ups–Watch the video Compare-contrast Digital Tools 70+ Online Resources to Gamified Education Digital C…

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02.11.2024

Subscriber Special: November Great Deal on Coaching

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November 2-7th: Coaching or Mentoring BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free D…

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31.10.2024

4 Websites that Explain Elections

In about half the world–mostly those where people live under socialism, communism, dictators, or autocracies–law and order is decided for the people. In the 1700’s, when the brand…

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30.10.2024

Goal Setting for a Fourteen-year old

Can a high school freshman be goal-oriented? Should they—or is this too early? Though many deliberate, no one yet has invented a time machine to unring the proverbial bell. And high school requir…

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29.10.2024

Tech Tip #135: 5 Tips on Internet Research

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26.10.2024

Halloween Projects, Websites, Apps, Books, and a Costume

Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ide…

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25.10.2024

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 the past month on my writer’s blog, WordDreams: Surprisingly, 15-20% of the popula…

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24.10.2024

13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom

No one disagrees with the importance of the visual in communicating. The problem usually is creating it. Most teachers aren’t adept at matching colors, picking fonts and font sizes, and then …

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23.10.2024

National Bullying Prevention Month

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld. Kids don’t expect that and of…

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22.10.2024

Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations–the video

Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free to Ask a Tech Teacher subscribers: Summary Thi…

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19.10.2024

Tech Tip #64 Google Street View

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18.10.2024

How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten

Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. Now, there is a vast landscape of res…

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17.10.2024

Digital Citizenship Resources–Lots of Them

Ask a Tech Teacher has a passel of online resources to help you introduce, teach, and reinforce digital citizenship to your students. Here’s our long list–and click here for updates if …

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17.10.2024

12 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship–by Grade

Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or th…

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17.10.2024

Digital Citizenship Week: What to Teach When–a video

Digital Citizenship Week — October 14–18, 2024 You can get a lot of great ideas from Common Sense Education on their Digital Citizenship Week page: Digital Citizenship Week calendars, with fu…

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12.10.2024

70+ Online Resources to Gamified Education

Here are popular online resources to teach about using games in education (click here for updates to the list): Battleship on Google Sheets Breakouts by BreakoutEdu.com — a bit like Webquests but m…

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10.10.2024

Tech Tip #110 — Compare-contrast Digital Tools

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08.10.2024

6 Online Resources About Letters

Here are resources to help you teach about letters (click here for updates to list): Alphabetimals–learn the alphabet with animal sounds Find the letter–easy, medium, hard Hands on Lear…

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05.10.2024

Subscriber Special: October New Teacher Survival Kit

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit 9 ebooks, 65 digital posters $222.95 Marked down to $178.95 end…

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04.10.2024

Warm-ups–Watch the video

Warm-ups This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: –summarized by NoteGPT Highlights 🖥️ Engaging with technol…

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03.10.2024

What You Might Have Missed in September–What’s up in October

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: 18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom — a Video Introducing the Makeblock mBot2: A Fun and Educational AI Robot for Coding 9 Reasons to Use Digital…

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02.10.2024

ASVAB or a Service Academy? You Decide.

If you want to join the military, you can do that by attending a four-year Service Academy or by enlisting. I discussed 11 ways to become a Navy Officer in an earlier article (click for link). Here…

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01.10.2024

Autumn Websites

Autumn Facts for Kids Don’t “Leaf” Out Fall’s Most Valuable Lesson EEK! A Tree’s True Color Fall Bucket List For Families Printable Fall Crafts, Decorations, and Print…

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19.09.2024

I’m Traveling with my Kids! Sept. 18-29

September 18-29 I’m off to visit my two military children and then my sister. My son is preparing to deploy overseas to places I won’t mention while my daughter does what she can to kee…

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18.09.2024

Best LMS for Schools in 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has come up with the best little-known LMS platforms for 2024. Honestly, we hadn’t heard about most of these before one of our team members brought them to our att…

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17.09.2024

Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. Here are a few tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team for High School students who want to get the most out of these import…

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13.09.2024

18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom — a Video

18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: Summary 18 essential digital tools for …

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12.09.2024

America, We Remember

9-11 Day has become Patriot Day here in America, but it doesn’t change its purpose: to show how much we love our country. If you aren’t familiar with this terrorist attack, here’s a 2-minute …

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A Thanksgiving Poll–What does ‘Turkey’ mean?

Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

Tech Tip #150: Google as a Dictionary

14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

4 Critical Pieces of Every Lesson and How to Gamify Them video

How to Put Kindness in Your Classes

Geography Awareness Week: November 11-15, 2024

A Day to Remember Veterans

National STEM Day Nov. 8th

Tech Tip #138: 7 Ways to Evaluate Websites

Tips for Supporting Students With Special Needs Using Technology

26 Online LMS Resources

What You Might Have Missed in October–What’s up in November

Subscriber Special: November Great Deal on Coaching

4 Websites that Explain Elections

Goal Setting for a Fourteen-year old

Tech Tip #135: 5 Tips on Internet Research

Halloween Projects, Websites, Apps, Books, and a Costume

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

13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom

National Bullying Prevention Month

Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations–the video

Tech Tip #64 Google Street View

How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten

Digital Citizenship Resources–Lots of Them

12 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship–by Grade

Digital Citizenship Week: What to Teach When–a video

70+ Online Resources to Gamified Education

Tech Tip #110 — Compare-contrast Digital Tools

6 Online Resources About Letters

Subscriber Special: October New Teacher Survival Kit

Warm-ups–Watch the video

What You Might Have Missed in September–What’s up in October

ASVAB or a Service Academy? You Decide.

Autumn Websites

I’m Traveling with my Kids! Sept. 18-29

Best LMS for Schools in 2024

Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students

18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom — a Video

America, We Remember

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