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Educator App of the Week Tech * Connect * Ignite! | (International Society for Technology in Education) Tech * Connect * Ignite! Transforming education requires us to rethink how we teach and learn. The ISTE Standards act as a roadmap for bold, innovative educators and education leaders to re-engineer their schools and classrooms for digital age learning no matter where they fall on the journey to meaningful, effective ed tech integration. (https://www.iste.org/standards) Focus: ISTE Educator Standard 5. Designer Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. For Educators: Designer 5b Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. The fastest way to transform presentations into classroom conversations. Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides. Click to view Pear Deck for Google Slides : Or scan the code to view: The 5 Interactive Question Types in Google Slides There are 5 Interactive Slides or Question types.  They allow you to ask every student for their answers, opinions, ideas and creativity.  When you ask students a question through Pear Deck, every student answers on his or her own screen.  You can choose to display answers anonymously on the projector screen and you can see each individual answer on your Teacher Dashboard. With every question type you can put content on the main slide (which will show on the projector screen) and then configure the way students will respond. Content you can put on the main slide area: • Text • List • Image • YouTube 5 Response Types  1. A DraggableTM 2. A drawing 3. Text 4. A number 5. Multiple Choice From the Instructional Technology Workshops

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External News New Partnership Seeks to Foster Diversity and Inclusion in Research and Implementation Fields by  GlobeNewswire - Business Insider | Pub: 05/08 The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is launching a new partnership with three large universities aimed at building a pipeline of diverse candidates who can contribute to the field of behavioral and social science research and application. The time has come to address education’s digital divide by  Michael Villarreal - UTSA Today | Pub: 05/08 Leo Cimilien’s world widened when he began preschool last fall at San Antonio’s Advanced Learning Academy. The 5-year-old got to practice English, since his Haitian-born family speaks Creole and French in the home From Classroom To Computer Screen: One Young Teacher’s Journey During The Coronavirus Pandemic by  Camille Phillips - Texas Public Radio | Pub: 05/08 Christopher Terrazas never imagined finishing his second year of teaching from a virtual classroom set up in a corner of his family game room at home. But when the coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the country to close, the 24-year-old San Antonio native embraced the new challenge.

Publications A Systematic Synthesis of Lag Schedule Research in Individuals with Autism and Other Populations Bryant Silbaugh - Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching | : 04/15 Bryant Silbaugh-Clodagh Murray-Michelle Kelly-Olive Healy - Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - 2020

Research Educator Sexual Misconduct in Texas: Exploring Offender Profiles for Use in Training and Prevention UTSA Submitted:   $440,730.47   PI:   David Thompson   CI:     Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Educator Sexual Misconduct in Texas: Research, Instruction, Prevention UTSA Submitted:   $277,682.41   PI:   David Thompson   CI:     Educational Leadership and Policy Studies