Freelance Articles
Here’s a partial list of articles I’ve published on tech ed pedagogy, student-centered learning, inquiry-driven education, and education in general:
- 3 Problems to Address Before Blogging at Your School
- 4 Subjects Every Teacher Must Teach and How
- 5 Must-have Skills for New Tech Teachers Plus One Extra
- 5 Programs That Make Digital Note-taking Easy
- 5 Strategies to Assess Student Knowledge
- 5 Sure-fire Ways to Teach Vocabulary
- 5 Ways to Cure Technophobia in the Classroom
- 6 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging
- 7 Education Trends You Don’t Want to Miss
- 7–no 10, wait 12–OK, 13 Skills I Teach With Blogging
- 7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork
- 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
- 7 Ways Common Core Will Change Your Classroom
- 8 Education Tools That Are Going Away
- 8 Reasons for and 8 Against Revisiting Software in the Classroom
- 9 Mistakes Teachers Make Using Tech in the Classroom
- 9 Reasons For Online Training and 5 Against
- 9 Webtools in 9 Minutes (infographic)
- 10 Factors to Consider in Tech Report Cards
- 10 Factors to Inform Tech Assessment
- 11 Ways to Make an Inquiry-based Classroom
- 11 Ways to be an Inquiry-based Teacher
- 12 Tips for Teaching Middle School Tech
- 12 Tips on Handling Hard-to-teach Classes
- 13 Reasons For and 3 Against Technology in the Classroom
- 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core
- 13 ways Twitter Improves Education
- 14 Factors to Consider for Tech Report Cards
- 17 Topics to Teach K-8 About Digital Citizenship
- 17 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day
- 18 Pluses, 5 Differences, and 9 Tips about Chromebooks in Your Classroom
- 18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am
- 19 Topics to Teach in Digital Citizenship–and How
- 25 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix–Update
- BYOD–the lowdown in one article
- Faceoff: What Digital Device Should My School Buy?
- Handwriting vs. Keyboarding–from a Student’s Perspective
- How Do You Grade Tech? I Have 14 Ideas
- How do I teach a program I don’t know how to use?
- How do I prepare students for PARCC Tests?
- How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community
- How to Create a Curriculum Map
- How to Create a Tech-based Curriculum Using the SAMR Model
- How to Instill Digital Citizenship in Students
- How to Teach Students to Solve Problems
- How to Write a Novel with 140 Characters
- How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving
- How to Compare and Contrast Authentically
- How to Pick iPad Apps for your Classroom
- How to set up your tech classroom
- How to Talk to a Tech Teacher
- Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind
- Literacy In K-5 Classrooms
- New Literacies Enable Smarter Researching
- New Tech Teacher? I Understand You
- The Power of Symbols–What does ‘Turkey’ mean?
- The Tablet’s ‘Killer App’
- Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft
- Twitter in the Classroom
- Use the SAMR Model to Spearhead Technology in Your Classroom
- What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds
- What’s a good Technology Acceptable Use Policy?
- What’s the Classroom of the Future Look Like?
- What to do When Computers Are Down
- What’s Tomorrow’s Student Look Like
- What You Need to Know about Kidproofing the Internet
- When is Typing Faster Than Handwriting?
- Which is better for schools: iPads or laptops?
- Why Keyboarding Should NOT be Dead
- Why use a Digital Portfolio–and 9 ways to do it
- Will Texting Destroy Writing Skills?
If you would like a specialized article on a facet of technology education, please contact me at askatechteacher@gmail.com.
