Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ask a Tech Teacher has a book of 169 tech tips to energize your classroom. We’ve added about ten more since publication. Here are some of the tips educators find most useful. The heading will click through to a more detailed article on the tip: Tech Tip #167–How to Evaluate Apps. Here are thirteen tips to evaluate the apps you’ll find useful in your classroom: free or small fee. stand the test of time. positive parent reports. rated ‘for everyone’ or ‘low maturity’. no in-app purchases or

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

This past year was a hard one, defined by the exhaustion of trying to return to “normal.” And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk. Test scores fell dramatically. Students across the U.S. (and around the world) stopped showing up to school.

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Middle Web

JANUARY 8, 2023

While there are many unknowns about the long-term impacts of ChatGPT on education, middle school teacher leader Kasey Short dives deep into the AI software’s potential for expanding teachers’ options and supporting student learning through prompts, writing, feedback, SEL and more. The post Introducing ChatGPT to Your Classroom first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 10, 2023

Incorporating new instructional strategies into your teaching practices is always challenging at first, but it gets easier with time. If you’ve tried to integrate STEM into your classroom, you’ve probably encountered barriers, but here are some ways to find a path forward to success.

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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.

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CoderZ

JANUARY 10, 2023

Learning something new can feel scary or overwhelming. The best way to help students get started is through action and a growth mindset. A lot of times the sense of intimidation, overwhelm, imposter syndrome, anxiety… whatever is in the way and creating action paralysis can often be cured when we just get going. . Growth Mindset is the belief that no matter your current skill level, you can always expand and develop it through hard work and dedication.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

STEM education benefits students of all ages. Students as young as kindergarten can begin reaping the positives just as easily as those in high school. This is because STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — education does more than teach specific school subjects. STEM encourages students to solve problems. It hones critical thinking skills and helps students learn to navigate the complexities of group work.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 13, 2023

Every year the National Schools Observatory welcomes students for a week-long residential work experience programme. Students can gain skills and experience plus an idea of how professional research is done at a university. The week consists of talks and workshops from university staff and students and culminates with students presenting their scientific research.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 13, 2023

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: My desktop icons changed. Category: Problem-solving.

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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

STEM education benefits students of all ages. Students as young as kindergarten can begin reaping the positives just as easily as those in high school. This is because STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — education does more than teach specific school subjects. STEM encourages students to solve problems. It hones critical thinking skills and helps students learn to navigate the complexities of group work.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 12, 2023

Find out who our STEM Ambassadors are and what they can offer as part of the TIM initiative! Suitable for Primary, Secondary and College teachers across ALL subjects. As a STEM Ambassador Hub, all the time teachers ask us, who are the STEM Ambassadors? What types of people do you have? How can we use them easily? This short session will show you how!

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2023

ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha. It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI ’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time (about 43 years, actually). And even having watched developments in the past few years I find the performance of ChatGPT thoroughly remarkable.

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These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. After being thrown into the public arena, my image, my story and my classroom were displayed and open for critique. As I traveled across the nation, teachers shared their stories with me. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 10, 2023

Incorporating new instructional strategies into your teaching practices is always challenging at first, but it gets easier with time. If you’ve tried to integrate STEM into your classroom, you’ve probably encountered barriers, but here are some ways to find a path forward to success.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Nuffield Research Placements programme provides engaging, hands-on research projects, where Year 12 students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation through a well-supervised but independent research collaboration relating to an area of science, quantitative social science, computing, technology, engineering or maths (or a combination).

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STEM Education Works

JANUARY 11, 2023

(Image source: BBC ). Just last month, on December 5, 2022, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory fired up a series of 192 ultraviolet lasers pointed at a peppercorn-sized sample of hydrogen encased in diamond. All with the goal of producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain … and it worked! Nuclear Fusion. Nuclear fusion is a process in which two or more atoms combine to form one or more heavier atoms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you walked into the classroom of a teacher who was outstanding at serving all of their students—those who might be marginalized, struggling, neurodiverse or recent immigrants—what exactly would you see? What actions distinguish teachers who are especially effective with our most vulnerable students? Over the past four years, I’ve come to immensely enjoy this question, both because it seems so urgently important and because it is a stumper.

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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 10, 2023

STEM competitions are a great way to build friendships and have fun while building STEM skills. Below you’ll find an awesome list of science, engineering, and robotics competitions for middle and high school students to help you find the right one for your child. This awesome list of STEM competitions is a work in progress. It’s a great resource for classroom teachers, homeschool teachers, librarians, and youth workers.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 11, 2023

If your learners are taking part in the RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch they can utilise their observations and further their learning with a CREST Award! Every year, educators from every corner of the UK take part in The Big Schools’ Birdwatch with their classes. There’s plenty of flexibility to run it with any age group of children and resources to help.

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K-12 Education News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Participation in environmental education programs can motivate children across diverse language groups to act responsibly toward the environment, a recent study suggests.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. The young woman had mentioned to Parks how comfortable she felt receiving care at the facility and how nice the staff were. So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia.

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Smore Science

JANUARY 13, 2023

Icicles aren’t crystal clear, and neither are the physics that form them, Credit: Wikimedia/Bjørn Christian Tørrissen. Sunny mornings with freezing temperatures are an odd pair in winter. The effects of this pair are even weirder. Icicles are pointy ice shards that form on branches and wires or any edge when the sun melts ice or snow. Water drips down from an edge, and when it is cold enough these droplets refreeze, forming icicles.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our friends at Shaping Futures have created a range of resources to support students and teachers as they explore the Liverpool City Region Be More Hub and app. Teachers can download PowerPoint slides and learners can utilise the connecting worksheets to discover key information on Growth Sectors, see what apprenticeships are available, explore careers and find local support to get them on the.

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Know Adam's Blog

JANUARY 8, 2023

The act of storytelling has been used to communicate information for centuries. The science behind its success is clear. Storytelling helps audiences connect personally to the subject matter, remember key facts, understand complex ideas, and learn from one another’s experiences. Research from Uri Hasson, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University, showed recently that when we hear a story unfold, our brain waves start synchronizing with the storyteller’s.

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Box Light

JANUARY 11, 2023

What do you remember doing when you were 4 years old? Maybe it was playing with blocks, sorting shapes, coloring inside and outside of the lines , or making mud pies. This was certainly my experience! But for my daughter and many children like her, technology played an influential role in their early development. In fact, it is not uncommon to see toddlers walking using smartphones to watch videos or play games.

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Smore Science

JANUARY 13, 2023

Sun paves way for more hydrogen fuel, Credit: Wikimedia/Bexim. The question of “What will be the next big source of energy?” rattles scientists even now. Our stash of fossil fuels is dwindling, and multiple options have been proposed. Yet, doubts over how accessible they would be is a major setback. One cannot place windmills in areas that are not windy.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 11, 2023

There are only 4 weeks to go… National Apprenticeship Week will soon be here! Our awesome friends at Amazing Apprenticeships have already released their first fantastic resource bundle but their latest collection launches today and is vibrant, interactive, and fun. It’s packed with games, quizzes & more – visit the Apprenticeship Arcade!

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