Gamifying assessments for teachers means integrating the game-like elements students love into lesson plans in such a way that students want to learn material. It's been around a long time, but gaining popularity in today's classrooms. With a long track record of use, it's fair to ask: Does it work? The Ask a Tech Teacher team has a quick overview of this question:

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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 from members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, from 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: Digital Citizenship Curriculum

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Here are the basic skills fifth graders can learn in Photoshop if you've prepared them with basic computer skills. I've provided links but they aren't live until publication (bold titles are already published):

• Photoshop artwork--live
• Photoshop actions--live
• Photoshop basics #5 live
• Photoshop filter and rendering tools
• Photoshop starters--auto-correct with the auto-correction -- live quick fixes to clean up a photo 
• Photoshop crop tool--Live
• Photoshop clone tool-- within a picture and to another
• Photoshop--change the background--live
• Photoshop tools--add custom shapes--live
• Photoshop--start with Word --live 

Today: Cropping

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How do you teach the hard to teach class? Differentiate

This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher:

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