Welcome back to Teacher Insights at Tech Talk For Teachers. Over the next two weeks, our series will focus on insights from educational leaders. With this series, we explore what…
Integrate Online Music Tools Into Your Classroom
Once you have found helpful digital tools and websites, you will need to consider how to best integrate them into your lessons. Because these resources are typically online, they offer…
#47 – Computational Thinking: A Conversation with Tammie Schrader
How can we shift students from being solely consumers of technology to helping them build the future-ready skills needed to produce and create with technology? When our students develop computational…
#46 – Demystifying Computational Thinking
The focus of this week’s episode is on demystifying computational thinking. We look at it through the lens of teaching computational thinking skills to our students. We also explore the…
Help Students Recognize and Apply Abstraction
There are many different definitions of abstraction across various content areas. Let’s focus on abstraction from a computer science lens. A simplified definition of abstraction would be a problem-solving tool…
Find and Explore Websites to Help Teach ELA
There is an ever-growing collection of online resources that ELA teachers can use to plan and teach their content. Some of these materials are targeted to a specific area of…
Fine-Tune Your Communication With Online Reference Materials
The Internet has made one’s ability to reference much easier. Instead of pulling a large book off of the shelf at your local library, you can now access rich, interactive…
Use Technology to Spark Speaking and Listening
Speaking and listening skills are arguably as important as reading and writing, but it’s hard to find time in the school day to adequately practice all of these key skills….
Take It Further With Online Literature Resources
Literature is both an extension of reading as well as a unique area of study on its own. Literature allows us to take our students deeper into complex texts, intricate…
Level the Playing Field With Leveled Reading
Even after students have “learned to read,” they will inevitably come to your classroom reading at different levels, and we must differentiate to meet their individual needs. But differentiation is…
Read Online With e-Books, Virtual Libraries, and Digital Collections
In order to read better, students need to practice reading, and one of the first steps to making this happen is to get reading materials into the hands of our…
Teach Reading With Online Resources
Reading is perhaps the most foundational skill in education. It is the basis upon which many other skills are built. If education were a house, reading would be its foundation….
#45 – Insights From an Urban District With Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Ellen Dorr
Welcome back to Teacher Insights at Tech Talk For Teachers. In this episode, we continue to focus on insights from educational leaders, where we explore what has happened in virtual,…
Ed Tip: Comic Strips
Overview Comic strips are a great way for students to create, express themselves, and demonstrate what they know. They can use both words and pictures to illustrate meaning. When assigning…
Ed Tip: Launch Learning
Overview It’s important to engage learners at the beginning of a lesson. Part of this engagement is capturing interest. Another part involves activating prior learning, so they can make connections…