Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2023

PDF editors are valuable tools in schools that allow students with different platforms–Google Apps, MS Office, and others–to make annotations, add comments, edit content (with some restrictions), and collaborate. Students can submit assignments digitally despite differences between their home platform and school (say, they use MS Office at home and Google Apps at school).

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STEM Education Works

JULY 24, 2023

image credit Cradle of Aviation Museum Hey there, everyone! Get ready to buckle up and prepare for a fun-filled flight as we delve into the extraordinary life of Bessie Coleman , the first woman of African American and Native American descent to earn her pilot’s license in the United States. With nicknames like “Brave Bessie” and “Queen Bess,” she fearlessly defied societal expectations and performed jaw-dropping flying tricks thousands of feet above the ground.

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STEMe

JULY 24, 2023

Newnan, GA Altruism, also known as selflessness, is a behavior that… doesn’t really make sense. By definition, altruism doesn’t benefit the organism performing it, but rather benefits another party sharing the same family, species, or sometimes another organism completely. In this article, we will explore altruism in humans and other species, if it’s even real, why it exists, and its benefits in the survival of species.

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The Science Penguin

JULY 24, 2023

Guiding your fifth graders to craft their own scientific investigation can be a challenge, but we’ve got a solution to simplify the process for you! According to the TEKS, 5th grade students should be designing their own simple experimental investigations in groups. They’ll frame a question, formulate a hypothesis and a plan, implement their investigation and gather data, then draw their conclusions.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

Teaching

Carly and Adam

JULY 24, 2023

This STEM activity takes a twist on the classic fairy tale of "The 3 Little Pigs" and adds a sprinkle of engineering and creativity. So, gather your building materials, and let's embark on a fiesta of STEM-filled fun as we build our very own casitas! It’s perfect for elementary classrooms and offers a fun, innovative way to explore a modern-day telling of The Three Little Pigs, enhancing literacy and STEM skills.

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Middle Web

JULY 24, 2023

Collaborative instructional practice evolves when we define our value as co-teachers based on our service to students, not by our location in the room, writes language specialist Tan Huynh. How and where can each teaching partner best serve the learning needs of the moment? The post Co-Teaching Where and When We’re Needed first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student. Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. But that diversity is often missing in the teachers at the front of classrooms. That’s especially true when it comes to the number of teachers who are Black men: the group makes up only 1.3 percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year.

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