Communication from teachers to both students and parents has always been important in K-12 education. But in an age of distance learning and technology-driven hybrid learning, clear and consistent communication — about grades, assessments, learning goals, and a host of other things about school — may be more important than ever. We all need to …
Disclosure: TinyTap is currently posted on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Over the past two weeks, I’ve covered the basics of creating an educational game with TinyTap and how to make it look good. This week I’ll start by diving into some of the more interesting game types and formats available at TinyTap. The first is the puzzle game …
Lumio was one of my new favorites in 2021. I wrote about it back in November, but I don’t think I’ve fully captured everything that makes Lumio great. And since Google Analytics tells me that people prefer articles with lists, here are ten cool things you and your students can do with Lumio. Take a …
Updated Jan 2022 Prodigy Math Game is an online game-based educational website that helps students practice and learn mathematics through fun and engaging games. As students play, Prodigy’s adaptive algorithm delivers curriculum-aligned math questions and in-game rewards to engage them and keep them focused on the learning process. Using Prodigy Analytics Reports, teachers can access …
Recently, Brown University economist Emily Oster wrote an op-ed in The Atlantic that makes three key points: (1) institutions can simply require vaccinations (or, less explicitly, masks); (ii) Personal learning will relieve the student’s mental distress; and (3) online teaching is harmful to students. While I acknowledge Auster’s brilliance in her field of expertise, my …
When I first started going to school, my teachers would sit with me in the back of the classroom. My parents immigrated from Mexico and were farm workers who lived in Florida and migrated across the country based on the season. This means that I not only went to school in Florida, but also in …
Ray Salazar has taught high school journalism and English at Chicago Public Schools for more than twenty years. The school year usually begins with lessons about written profiles, but in the fall of 2020, he felt that wouldn’t meet the moment. Instead, he formulated an entirely new curriculum that he felt would resonate better with …
Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an education technology tool that would give shy students superpowers in their college courses. Its premise was to break the main bond between professors and students. Specifically, I felt that emails between professors and students led to inequality when it came to students who understood the …
TeacherMade is a platform for creating interactive online assignments for your students. I first covered it in the fall of 2020 and since then its popularity has grown rapidly. One reason for this growth is that TeacherMade lets you take your existing favorite documents and turn them into automatically categorized online assignments. You can even …
This blog post is sponsored by Lumio, but it also features a bunch of other great tools. At this point in the school year and the second school year in a pandemic situation, we’re all familiar with the nuts and bolts of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, or any other platform your school uses for …