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Austin was the learning capital of the world last week as TCEA 2020 and its attendees moved into the convention center. If you couldn’t be there, here are some of the hot topics and amazing resources that were shared.
STEAM Is Big
- Full STEAM Ahead in the Elementary Classroom
- TCEA Makers
- Microsoft Math offers step-by-step explanations of problems, graphs, video tutorials and more.
- Let’s Bring Literacy to Life Through Making
- Learning Math with Dash
Sound Pedagogy + Technology = Accelerated Learning
- High-Quality Instructional Strategies with Google
- The Kids Are Alright: Using Differentiation and Formative Assessment in Blended Learning Environments
- Make Learning Visible with Self-Reported Grades
- Fantastic Feedback Tools for Google Docs
- Matching High-Effect Size Instructional Strategies and Digital Tools
- Improving the Writing Process with Google Docs
- 1,800 Thread-Count Sheets: High-Quality Ways to Use Google Sheets
- Creating Learning Journals with Adobe Spark
Apps and Tools Can Add Excitement
- Use the Chrome extension Permanent Clipboard to save multiple items in your clipboard like the comments you leave on Google Docs for students
- Novel Effect: Free Voice-Driven App and Videos
- Doc Appender (to add Google Form question responses to the bottom of selected Google Docs)
- Flipgrid, Information Literacy, and Coaching (podcast)
- Use the Chrome extension Turn Off the Lights to black out everything except the video on YouTube
- Use Google Slides Q&A to Get Your Audience to Ask a Question
- Read&Write and Equatio for Chrome are free to teachers
- Find Alternative Apps and Tools with Alternative.me and AlternativeTo
- 10 Google Classroom Tips You Didn’t Know
- Slides Timer
More Educators Are Interested in Esports
- Esports for Everyone
- Reimagining Technology Electives: Esports and Game Design
- Hear Student Voice on Esports
- The Essentials of Esports in K12
- In Pursuit of Esports
Other Big Topics at TCEA 2020
- Notes taken from all of the Solution Circles during convention with lots of shared ideas, resources, and tips and tricks
- Bridging SEL and G/T Programming with the Innovative Application of Tech Tools
- Reframing the Conversation Around Libraries by Reclaiming Your “Why”
- Texas Goes Open
- Elevating Your 3D Printing Class
- Class Hook (videos to use to illustrate concepts)
- Future-Ready Teaching: Nurturing Tomorrow’s Educators (report)
- Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake News
- Smashing the Problem: PBL and Design Thinking in a Gamified Experience
- Creating Libraries of Tomorrow for the Learners of Today
- Free ebook Podcasting for the Classroom
- Twine Games for Social Studies
If you want to see all of the Tweets from the convention, check out this Wakelet from Deborah Zeman. And finally, if you want to see even more of what was shared at the 2020 convention, be sure to download the TCEA app. Many presenters attached their handouts to their sessions in the app and you have full access to them.
