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Khan Academy now has grammar tutorials!

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Guest Post: How Technology Is Improving Education

New Guest Post: How Technology Is Improving Education by @BrownKatleen

Guest Post by: Katleen Brown

Since the beginning of technological innovation, the education sector has undergone various changes. Most people have always desired to be in classes with few students but this has been a challenge in learning institutions because of the huge number of people seeking education. With technology, however, it is now possible for the instructors to give personalized…

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Goodreads Book Review: The Martian

New #Goodreads Book Review: The Martian

The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars

You are an astronaut on the third manned mission to Mars. You, and your five other fellow astronauts, will be there for a month of mars days (aka sols). It’s going to be the best month of your life. But then—six days into the mission—disaster strikes! You are dead. Or so your crew thought. They abandon the mission and head back to Earth.…

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Guest Post: 5 Effective Tips to Guide High School Students in Time Management

Guest Post: 5 Effective Tips to Guide High School Students in Time Management

Guest Post: April Boey

In order to achieve success in any task, it is vital to learn proper time management. High school life is power-packed with varied activities that call for a lot of involvement on the part of the student. Given this, if the student is unable to properly handle time, he might end up wasting his time in activities that add negligible value to his entire life and career. Here…

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Sixth Anniversary of Teaching & Technology

Sixth Anniversary of Teaching & Technology

Yesterday marked the 6th anniversary of this blog. When I first started the blog, it was supposed to be a documentation of my journey of becoming a teacher, as I had just decided to go back and get my master’s degree. Therefore, I set the blog up as a simple self-hosted blog on my portfolio website.

Six year’s later, Teaching & Technologyhas its own domain and is less about my personal journey…

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List Challenge: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

List Challenge: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

I was a die-hard Gilmore Girls fan back when it was on TV. I’ve rewatched the series several times and am excitedly awaiting the release of the the new episodes on Netflix.

There were many reasons I liked Gilmore Girls, and one of those reasons was that Rory loved to read. She would throw out literary references faster than I could catch them. I never kept track of the references, but thankfully,…

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Help Me Out: Tell Me What You Want to Read About

Sorry I haven't posted. So...help me out. Tell me what you want to read about on Teaching & Technology

I apologize for the lack of posts on Teaching & Technology. I can give you a list of excuses, but they would be simply that, excuses.

Let’s review them, shall we?

I was busy with work

I wanted to binge-watch TV shows on Netflix

I wanted to relax and spend time with friends/family

I was on vacation

I didn’t have anything to write about

I felt I was posting too many guest posts and infographics and…

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Guest Post: Keep up with Technology so You Can Keep up with Your Students

Guest Post by: Isla Wright

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

And things are changing. Instead of paper, we use laptops, instead of books, we use e-books. You want to be a person who pushes students forward, not the one who holds on to the relics of the past. There is a gap between…

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Guest blog post Infographic: Teens and Mobile Phone Use Source: 

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Guest Post: Creative Storytelling in the Classroom

New Guest Post: Creative Storytelling in the Classroom

Courtesy of Magenta Rose/Flickr

Guest Post by: Eduard Bogel

Storytelling is essential in all facets of life. Our very essence of existence is memorized with storytelling. Reserving time for storytelling in the classroom will be a pleasant attraction to your lecture.

Many professors use storytelling to bond with their students while enchanting the learning experience.

Storytelling is quite the…

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Great Scott, Future Day is Here!

Great Scott! Welcome to the Future! Today is Future Day! Let's talk about what tech was invented/not invented!

Great Scott! Today is the future day from Back to the Future! Get a up-to-the-minute present time circuit: http://www.october212015.com/

Let’s talk about what technologies actually came to fruition and which did not. Which ones would you like to have been made?

I’m pretty partial to flying cars and hover boards. I’m glad the two neckties thing didn’t catch on. Of course, who wouldn’t want a time…

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National Banned Books Week 2015

New Post: National #BannedBooksWeek 2015

National Banned Books Week is September 27-October 3. According to the American Library Association, there were 311 book challenges in 2014. Check out the infographic below to see the top 10.

Want to know more about National Banned Book week? Check out www.bannedbookweek.org, the ALA’s Banned Books, or Teaching and Technology’s previous post about National Banned Book Week.

Download this…

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I have a serious reading problem!

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Why is Math Taught Differently Now?

New post: Why is Math Taught Differently Now? Content from @hemantmehta and @drrajshah of @MathPlusAcademy

What is “new math” or Common Core math? One example is this “new math” check floating around the internet. Do you know how much is it written for?

  According to an article by Hemant Mehta, the check writer (Doug Herrmann) didn’t actually understand what he was talking about so it’s for two different amounts. In the box where you write the amount, the ten-frame is wrong—it’s written as an…

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Guest Infographic: Words Invented by Authors Infographic submitted by: Kate Funk

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Goodreads Book Review: All By My Selves by Jeff Dunham

@Goodreads Book Review: All By My Selves by @JeffDunham

All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I’ve had Jeff Dunham’s autobiography, All By My Selves, sitting on my “to read” shelf for quite some time. I have no other reason for not getting to it sooner other than time and “not being in a biography mood”. Luckily, the stars aligned and I read the book.

In fact, I enjoyed it so much that it only took me…

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Great way to start a lesson or use as a warm up!