Be aware: Some posts may be delayed. We apologize for that! I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I'm going to take time 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, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools--taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular. Today: Lesson PlansI use AI judiciously and never without adult supervision. It is efficient if well directed, provides good summaries of articles on a factual level, and is fast if I'm not looking for clever, creative, complex, or any sort of conscience. Accepting those limitations, I find it good for summaries of articles
on my education blog and lists for just about anything. AI loves lists. What AI can't do is at the absolute core of fiction writing: - provide personal experience
- act with any sort of moral compass
- make judgments
- bare its soul
- bleed on a page
- put the lion in a character's heart
- sacrifice, say, the easy wrong for the hard right
Click for more In the past, I've gotten emails like this from teachers: I am a tech teacher, going on my fifth year in the lab. Each year I plan to be more organized than the last, and most often I revert back to the "way things were." I'm determined to run the lab just like I think it should be! ... Could you
please elaborate on how you run your class? I love the idea of having kids work independently, accomplishing to do lists, and working on different projects. You mention this in Volume I, but I want to hear more! Currently, I see close to 700 students, grades 1-6. I want to break out of the routine (the "you listen, I speak, you do" routine), and your system seems like it would work well. Just hoping you can share some details.
I decided to jot
down my typical (as if any planned lesson ever comes out the way it's written--you know how that goes!) daily lesson. You can tweak it, depending upon the grade you teach. Click for more |
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technology-in-education-related information for educators--teachers, administrators, homeschoolers, and parents. Here's how to get started on our blog: I get thousands of visitors a day--over six million since I started. The most common reason why you-all drop by is for resources. I have lots of them--lesson plans, tips and tricks--but one area I have not enough depth is the experiences of fellow teachers: - your personal teaching
experiences
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- Education pedagogy
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