In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today's tip: 19 Tech Problems Every Student Can Fix
Category: Problem-solving
Here are the nineteen problems that cause eighty percent of the tech stoppages in your classrooms. Review these authentically with students and expect them to master all nineteen before graduating from fifth grade:
Deleted a file
Open Recycle Bin (or Trash) and restore.
Can't exit a program
Alt+F4 works 95% of the time.
Can't find MS Word
PC: Right-click on desktop—select 'New>Word Document'.
Keyboard doesn't work
Push 'Num Lock' to see if it lights up. If it does, the problem is other than the keyboard. If it doesn't, re-plug cord into digital device and reboot.
Mouse doesn't work
Move it around to see if the cursor moves. If it doesn't, re-plug cord into digital device and reboot.
Start button is gone
PC: Push Windows button.
No sound
Unmute the sound or turn it up from the lower right corner of the screen; plug headphones in (or unplug); reboot.
Can't find a file
PC: Start>Search; when you find the file, notice where it is and/or resave to a location you'll remember.
iPad: Open the app it was created in or go to the Cloud storage associated with the device.
Chromebooks: Push Alt+Shift+M to access File Manager.
Menu command grayed out
Push escape 3 times. This gets you out of wherever you were and activates the command you'd like to use.
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