On January 23, 2013 TechnoKids Inc. celebrates its 20th anniversary. The company has seen a lot of change throughout the years. The door on the first TechnoKids learning center opened in Oakville, Ontario, Canada in 1993. Today, there are thousands of learning centers, schools, and organizations using TechnoKids Computer Curriculum. Twenty years ago, Windows 95, […]
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Use OneDrive to have students collaborate. Instead of traditional pair groups, where students sit together in the same physical space, use OneDrive to engage in digital partnering. What Is Digital Partnering? Digital partnering is a pair group that uses technology to share ideas and work together. Collaboration Can be Simple Using OneDrive Collaboration doesn’t have
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While the majority of students were already in line to head to their next class, I turned to notice that one of my students was still sitting at his machine working. Throughout the weeks, this student has frequently been off-task and required on-going support. Now he was diligently working all period and didn’t want to
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You are looking at a printed poster and the work looks excellent. Does that mean your student possesses strong ICT skills? Not necessarily! Here’s why… Your students might be applying inefficient techniques to create the desired result. Let me give you an example. At the school where I am teaching as a guest instructor, the
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Technology is extremely important in today’s world and TechnoKids Japan, as a Ganbatte 365 project, sponsored by The Japan Association of New York, will start an initiative in October to teach the children in the Tohoku region how to use technology in today’s world. TechnoKids Japan Y.K. is working with Ganbatte 365, an NPO in
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Recently, I began to teach TechnoWonderland to a class of grade 7/8 students. They love the idea of creating their own amusement park. We have just completed planning our park and now students are designing a poster using Microsoft Word. As you may have guessed, from a technology skill standpoint we are focusing on word
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I love to make bulletin boards. I am always looking for new ways to showcase student work. Recently, I stumbled across PosteRazor, which is FREE software that transforms any image into poster size. It is a great tool you can use to enlarge student work to make it stand out. It also offers a super
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Do you need computer lessons for beginners? TechnoPainter has activities that will help your students develop their skills. Teach the fundamentals in a FUN way! Each activity in TechnoPainter uses Microsoft Paint. This program is part of the Windows operating system. There is a product version for Windows 7 users , as well as for
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TechnoKids Computer Curriculum is now being used by students in Lebanon to develop their business and technical skills through project based learning. TechnoFuture Lebanon is offering camps, workshops, and computer courses in affiliation with local schools and universities. Since the company began operations at the beginning of the year, students have been enrolling in their
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My Grade 6 students just completed their digital scrapbooks. They were made using Microsoft PowerPoint. I loved the activity so much that I am thinking about writing a TechnoKids technology project for the activity. Let me tell you more about it! It was the final computer class of the school year. We had just finished
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