Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

They can also clearly present their thoughts, arguments, and understanding of the lectures because they express themselves better. With access to the right tools, they can have a sense of control over their lives and learning environments. This way, they maximize their skills and potential while feeling happy, secure, and comfortable.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. In that case, your access to health care doesn't depend on any actions that you take. One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. They don't have equal access to helpful mentors or really skilled teachers or motivated peers.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 3, 2022

I hope we can get access to her talk and show it to students. The argument for Python is multiple. I am finding the arguments for Python more convincing than I expected. Several papers she studied and referenced were published the year I got my undergraduate degree. Needless to say, the room was full.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

It's good to support learning, it's important for accessibility, it's important to address accommodations for students. If you're not doing well in the classroom, you lose access to the information that would prepare you. And a lot of that material that you can get outside of the class is really important for lots of reasons.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are accessible from the Teach hub and are organized by topic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Interactive learning apps are perfect for captivating the minds of these little ones while making education enjoyable and accessible. These apps come in all shapes and sizes, catering to various subjects including math, language arts, science, and social studies.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. Will their efforts succeed? What’s the ‘Gold Standard’?

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Middle Web

MAY 10, 2023

ELA teacher Dr. Jason DeHart makes the argument that “literacy” today is not something that can only be accessed through an elusive set of text-based standards and practices but instead a state that can be achieved using a wide range of readily available media modalities.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

To do that, he uses depolarization strategies, like “looping,” or having each person repeat back the other’s argument in their own words and ask whether they are hearing the other side accurately. Of course for a long time there have been concerns about things like the books kids have access to.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When you hear your dad's advice that you should finish now, what is your argument back? So my quick argument will always be that there's always another way. What would you say to that argument? But it's kind of awesome to see him finding ways to make money that matches his passion. Now it is a completely different day and age.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. We should never talk about access to jobs as if we live in an equal world. There are two key weaknesses to our argument.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 21, 2023

Logic is the foundation of rational thinking, and by teaching students to analyze arguments, identify fallacies, and draw valid conclusions, we are helping them become more effective critical thinkers. Logic is the foundation of rational thinking, and being able to effectively analyze arguments is a crucial skill.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Encourage students to voice their opinions and be argumentative all while being ethical, maintaining decorum and respecting each other’s views. Provide students with headlines (use this breaking news generator to help you come up with headline ideas) and invite them to discuss them openly. Killer Underwear Invasion!:

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STEMe

MARCH 31, 2024

Additionally, because the researchers could only have access to people who had an income or were engaged in healthcare, the studies weren't randomly selected. Because of the general skepticism, the argument about whether AI could have a negative or positive impact continues.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

EdSurge: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, you piloted a multifaceted AI program to support the teaching of argumentative writing. They have a chance to, in seconds, access more and more information and resources than ever before. What initially sparked your interest in exploring and implementing AI tools in your classroom?

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Career in STEM

MAY 8, 2024

Accessible Where You Write: The academic writing tool is available on Web and MS Word and easy to use and navigate, ensuring you have instant corrections as and where you write. Grammarly’s Pricing Plans Free – Access basic language and tonality checks and 100 Generative AI prompt usage at no cost. Premium – At US$30.16

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But what if the key to expanding educational access comes down to rethinking our concept of smarts and who has them? That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.”

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

You can operate an old-timey camera (virtually) and reshoot the scene and make an argument for why it would be better that way,” says James DeVaney, associate vice provost for academic innovation at Michigan and founding executive director for the university’s center for academic innovation. “You

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Another common argument is that homework helps students develop skills related to problem-solving, time-management and self-direction. While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning.

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Stephen Wolfram

APRIL 27, 2023

One can think of this as adding broad “computational superpowers” to ChatGPT, giving access to all the general computational capabilities and computational knowledge in Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha. So that means it can get access to local resources on your computer, like your camera, speakers, files, etc.

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National Science Foundation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Now, this is usually where I would launch into a well-honed set of arguments explicating the various economic, societal, and moral imperatives which make clear the need for America to tackle issues of equity and inclusion through a systemic transformation approach to cultivate a larger and more inclusive STEMM workforce. experiences that?inspire?further

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National Science Foundation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Arguments for teacher diversity, particularly when focused on Black teachers, are often grounded in several common arguments: (a) the teaching force is primarily white and female; (b) demographics of school faculty should match those of the schools where they teach; and (c) Black teachers are social and academic role models for Black students.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

The argument I’m making is that computer science as a field has become more narrow over time. In April, I gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) “Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science” — slides available here, and video available here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This includes over fifty short videos (each between two and twenty-two minutes) on different aspects of writing including narrative and argumentative style, modifiers, verb tense and mood, pronouns, noun agreements, frequently confused words, and more. In a partnership with College Board, Khan Academy offers free personalized SAT practice.

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The Science Penguin

AUGUST 11, 2023

The DCI states, “Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.” Make your lesson planning easier and download your science planning guide today! Sign up with your personal email and check your email now for immediate access to a full year of science planning ideas for 4th grade NGSS.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 23, 2023

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output. are symbolic objects.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. Barbara and Olivia’s top tips 1.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It is true that there has never been a time in human history where information and knowledge are as plentiful and readily accessible as they are today. The purpose of critical thinking is to inform our behaviours, actions, decisions and to "improve our ability to reason and generate strong arguments" (Hanscomb, 2016, p.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Let’s take a clear-eyed look at the pluses on each side of this argument. Even if students are on a “closed garden” school site, the very nature of a digital device with its one-click access to millions of activities is distracting. Then, when it’s time for your school to make that call, you’ll be ready.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2018

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2018

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The arguments go something like this. Even if you ban student devices, for the cost of a graphing calculator, schools can buy a much more powerful smartphone onto which you could do much more than just access a graphing calculator. That however should not dictate how a student accesses that technology.

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Talk STEM

MAY 13, 2021

Among the many benefits that this shift has provided is the increased accessibility to knowledge and tools for global contributors. There really should be no argument that there should be a more diverse makeup of STEM contributors. But this is resulting in poor access to quality healthcare for women. The Road to Improvement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

At recess, I usually input the new vocabulary words in Quizlet, with cards and audio files so that students could access them later while doing the homework. Unicheck helps to scan the assignments across the internet, open access repositories and private databases, generating the report automatically and landing them on my email.

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Ellipsis Education

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The ELL supplemental documents are built for each coding lesson to help teachers understand how to lighten the linguistic load of the course while maintaining students' access to the rigorous content presented to all students. What is the goal of the ELL documentation? What framework was used to build these documents?

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