ED Surge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

When I tried to donate my extra sick days to them as I had done before for other colleagues, school leaders would not allow it. Perhaps people facing extreme circumstances should have had access to a pool of donated sick days. There was a time when I would work myself to death. All day, every day.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s an ambitious goal and we rely on donations from readers like you to make that happen. Use the PayPal Donate button below or in the sidebar of Ask a Tech Teacher (aka, Structured Learning LLC–our publisher): About this time of each year, when several of our larger bills come due, we give a shout out for help.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Namya Mahajan Cofounder of Rocket Learning Recently, EdSurge spoke with Rocket Learning cofounders Namya Mahajan and Siddhant Sachdeva about their dedication to bringing high-quality early childhood education (ECE) opportunities to disadvantaged populations in India. Every child deserves equal opportunities regardless of where they come from.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2023

The students worked with no external funding, though Zoom donated use of its platform. It was the latest example of how AI is turning things upside down in education. So they want their courses to help prepare them for this new world and to be part of developing ethical rules on how best to use AI.

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JUNE 6, 2022

EdSurge caught up with a number of 2022 graduates to hear about how they’re thinking about their time in high school as it draws to a close. We hear about all these nonprofits in my area who are struggling for donations or need help,” Holtman describes. “It

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2022

The school in question is Hope College in Michigan, and here’s the idea: give students a college education for free and hope that they will pay it all back in donations in the course of their lifetimes. We sat down with Scogin during the SXSW EDU conference in Austin earlier this month to hear more about the plan, and how it's going so far.

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Carly and Adam

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Did you know the Rockefeller Christmas Tree is donated by families each year to the city? In this Christmas STEM Activity , students learn about how the some objects can be assembled, disassembled, and re-assembled into new objects. This Christmas STEM Challenge includes templates to count how many blocks students use.

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The Science Penguin

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very quickly I realized that the resources I wanted could easily be acquired through donations and my local recycling center. Our school cafeteria even got on board and set up donation boxes for empty water bottles, lids, cardboard tubes, and soda can tabs. How much time do I have for this project/unit?

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User Generated Education

MARCH 5, 2023

One of their goals is to teach our students about the garden. See Offering Electives to Elementary Students for more about why and how I offer electives to them. Plant anatomy was where they told us about the plant’s names and different parts. I also have the privilege of teaching my students multiple years.

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STEM Education Works

AUGUST 23, 2022

During the couple of days I spent at the conference, I learned about the successes and struggles, the triumphs and the tragedies, that teachers are currently facing. Donate them to your local school! Donating classroom supplies is an easy way to lift a little weight off their shoulders. Hello, everyone!

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AUGUST 7, 2020

It offers what seems to be an endless supply of professional-looking easy-to-implement templates that sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll students in classes, ask for donations, collect payments, and much much more. Here’s how it works: Share a form that collects data on, say, remote learning. How can I help?”

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The Maker Mom

APRIL 5, 2024

Campers learn about robotics, programming, and scientific experiments to engage their minds. Campers learn about robotics, programming, and scientific experiments to engage their minds. Individual programs are tailored to help them learn about a specific major subject combined with secondary topics to reinforce their knowledge.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

Baldwin’s latest book, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All,” looks at the history and future of the open access movement. EdSurge recently connected with Baldwin to talk about where he sees the movement going. EdSurge: How would you describe the state of the open access publishing movement?

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tract can engage students and get them excited about learning. Students can perform a cool project in Minecraft (while learning probability), learn about water quality with a student leader from Flint, Michigan, or learn to program their computer and many more options. . Tract sponsored this blog post. All opinions are my own.

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Amy Brown Science

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I absolutely love this event because the sellers who are participating will be donating a percentage of their sales to really amazing charities! Just think how many charities benefited!! Each participating seller has chosen a charity that is near and dear to their heart, and each will be donating their earnings to their chosen charity.

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STEM Education Guide

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Whatever the case, Teacher Appreciation Week is the perfect time to let those special teachers know how much they mean to you. Write a book about the teacher. Make a donation in the teacher’s name. Donate books to your teacher’s library. Donate books to your teacher’s library. Make a homemade gift.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

It’s an ambitious goal and we rely on donations from readers like you to make that happen. About this time of each year, when several of our larger bills come due, we give a shout out for help. They always take my calls, walk us through how to fix problems in terms we understand. We rely on donations.

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Futurum

DECEMBER 7, 2022

DONOR HUMAN MILK (DHM) – breast milk donated by a woman who is not the birth mother of the baby receiving it. When you think about lifesaving donations, you might think of blood or organs, but you probably do not think about milk. TALK LIKE A HUMAN MILK RESEARCHER. WHAT IS MILK?

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Stem Geek

AUGUST 23, 2022

Your blood contains vital information, and everyone should know a thing or two about blood, and their blood type when the time comes. But it’s not just about blood transfusions and donations. By learning how. The post How to Determine Your Blood Type Using Just Pen & Paper (Experiment for 13-Year-Olds!)

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Get Caught Engineering

JULY 28, 2022

Planning your STEM classroom can seem a little overwhelming since there are so many considerations: How can the space be arranged so that teams of students have room to work? How and where are all of the materials stored? When thinking about space you need to plan where unfinished projects will go. Materials and Organization.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

A classic example of teamwork, citizen science is a community effort that brings together both professionals and novices to help bring about change for the greater good. Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. This is where citizen science comes in.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At any one time in the US, about 100,000 people are on the waiting list for organ donations. If you need a new heart or lung, you will have to wait about four months, while the average waiting time for a donated kidney is five years. Can we engineer bacteria to regenerate tissues?

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Teachers are Terrific

MARCH 3, 2022

Well, how about that for a post title? Just a quick overview of my basic points – in simple language: Let’s get real about failures. Just a quick overview of my basic points – in simple language: Let’s get real about failures. Read carefully, because I have a freebie hidden in here somewhere!

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Jacobs Physics

APRIL 21, 2024

While mathematics are used extensively, they are used as a tool to create predictions about the workings of the natural world. How much does it cost: $200 for the weekend. How do I register? This summer's session will be Friday-Saturday July 19-20. We need a minimum of ten participants to run the institute.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I don’t remember exactly how she found me,” Hinman says of Flanagan. She called me and told me about the FAST Fund and asked if it would be something I was interested in applying for. When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. She felt stuck.

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Carly and Adam

JUNE 26, 2022

How to Setup Your STEM Classroom At Carly & Adam, we are always being asked about a STEM classroom setup ideas. How many students may need to work in the space? Jacie Maslyk. Questions are often posted to our Facebook community regarding the best furniture or storage units. A one size fits all formula does not apply.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It has a huge impact on how they view their world and their lives. Four I’ve talked about in the past are: Class Dojo. That means, among the topics that must be covered in school, kindness may be the most important. What is kindness? Kids learn by example. This isn’t as easy as it sounds. Why teach this in school, you ask?

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STEM Education Works

AUGUST 7, 2023

Recently Chip orchestrated a rocketry program with 5 th graders at Walls Elementary School, and I was very excited to see how the program turned out. Students learned about the forces affecting a rocket, in addition to stability, centers of gravity, and pressure. We talked about Hero’s Engine and Ancient Chinese fire arrows.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Bill Morgan through a shared interest in keyboarding for youngers (see this article on A Conversation About Keyboarding and this article on Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach ). In each other, we found kindred spirits, both passionate about better ways to teach today’s learners.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

When the specter appears, he has a chain “wound about him like a tail,” made out of “cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.” In the classic story by Charles Dickens, this phantom chain of business transactions serves as a warning—about the consequences of valuing money over mankind.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Fun for kids (and adults) of all ages, the baking soda, and the vinegar experiment are fun ways to learn about chemical reactions. How Baking Soda & Vinegar Reaction Works – a Simple Explanation When baking soda and vinegar come together, a chemical reaction occurs. You can also find this at just about any supermarket as well.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How can marine invertebrates help prevent organ transplant rejection? From a person deciding to donate their organs, to a bereaved family making the decision to donate a loved one’s organs, transplants represent scientific endeavour and human altruism working in beautiful unison.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Today’s prospective college students are closely watching the previous generation contend with student loan issues and seeing how debt affects financial security post-graduation. Tuition, taxpayer funding, and donations/grants have long provided revenues. The root causes of this crisis have not changed much over the last seven years.

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Stem Activities for Kids

JANUARY 22, 2023

If you are looking for ideas for upper elementary students, read this post about the 100th Day of School STEM. Why not celebrate how far your students have come with hands-on STEM activities? 100 piece puzzle activity : Provide students with 100-piece puzzles (Ask for donations! 100 days is a BIG DEAL for little kids!

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Newton STEM

AUGUST 27, 2022

Drawing on her recent book, Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Programming , she will speak about how coding should be taught not only as a technical skill but as a new literacy, enabling children to express themselves and engage with the world and others.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 1, 2017

I have written in the past about mysimpleshow , an easy and clever way educators can create explainer videos. Training content as well as tips and tricks on how to create a great explainer video are provided. After finishing the video, you can donate it to be featured on and distributed from simpleshow foundation’s channels.

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Futurum

MARCH 23, 2023

How could you trust that the drug you took was safe and effective? Or, if you have ever been to hospital for a medical procedure, how did the doctor know the best method for treating your condition? Clinical trials are all about the data. smoking, diet, exercise), how they respond to the intervention (e.g.,

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