Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2022

Raising computer-savvy children is complicated, whether you are a geek or a luddite. Our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has some great ideas for you in this next article: How to Raise a Computer-Savvy Generation. As a parent, do you know what you should do to raise a computer-savvy child? Image source: Pexels.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2023

Why is it important to preserve historical school video recordings? How about: to preserve old recordings that are degrading with time to make them more accessible to potential viewers and researchers to increase their lifespan But what’s the best way to do this? Press play and wait for the capture device to do its job.

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Cool Cat Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor Microsoft 's Free AI Course for Educators Microsoft has an amazing artificial intelligence course for educators that will help you and your education team have the knowledge you need to understand the best practices for artificial intelligence in schools. AIforEducators. So sign up today.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence? For many years, psychologists and neuroscientists have sought to uncover how the mind functions, while computer scientists have attempted to reproduce human-like capabilities in machines. Or are you smarter than computers? What are computational models?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

We’re still at a very interesting place in the development of computer science education. The shortage of qualified CS teachers is becoming more acute and more and more schools and school systems attempt to expand CS education. We still need a lot of research on how to teach computer science. Who is doing it well?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. To inform these conversations, observational research — without intervention — is the necessary foundation.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.” Students have access to both a female and a male counselor and a social worker.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. It can save teachers time by automating tasks , while also causing headaches as an accomplice to cheating students. In Michigan, it was a team effort. AI is everywhere.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

When I started teaching, syncing work between school and home was impossible. There was no way to get it into a student school drive from home. Thanks to cloud computing, that nightmare is over. Cloud Computing in the Educational Sector. We will explore them together in the next section of this article.

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National Science Foundation

JULY 12, 2023

Ever since Jeannette Wing’s seminal article (2006) on the growing importance of thinking computationally , there has been a significant push to infuse Computational Thinking (CT) into K-12 education. What is Computational Thinking (CT) and How Can It Be Used for Equity? 2017; Voskoglou & Buckley, 2012).

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. That’s been changing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtually every school and teacher were thrust into the edtech landscape. Louis, Missouri.

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STEM Education Works

MARCH 21, 2024

Turn your library into an effective research hub. Now, school libraries are becoming the go-to place for computer science, interactive technology, STEM resources, and digital content. INTRODUCE MAKING Creating a makerspace is one of the best ways to take your school library to the next level.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. To know the words is to be able to create the art.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

After my second surgery, I took a semester off from school to recover and to adjust to my new normal. I could no longer drive so my mom or dad needed to get me to school. One of the toughest parts was that I could no longer look at a computer screen for long periods of time, which was a key element of so many of my classes.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Barb Ericson has been gathering data on the Advanced Placement exams in Computer Science for a decade. Researchers can request the data. She was told that they would sign an agreement with the University of Michigan to give her access to the data — but not to her personally. Barb did several months ago.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

In his former school district in California, San Ramon Valley Unified School District, Rahul Bir noticed that the schools seemed inundated by technology. Schools have picked up all these new tech tools but it’s not always clear how teachers should actually use them. It pointed back to something he’d noticed before.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

That’s the question posed by science journalist Annie Murphy Paul, who points to research emphasizing the many ways that thinking is influenced not just by what’s inside our skull, but by cues from our body movements, by our surroundings, and by other people we’re interacting with. I’ll take one from each area of research.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Through these devices, students access web-based study tools, simulation tools, and apps where they can interact with their teachers and fellow students.

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CoderZ

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In recent years, the landscape of education in the United States has been undergoing a profound transformation, particularly when it comes to Computer Science (CS) education in K-12 schools. As technology continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace, there is a growing demand for a workforce with strong computer science skills.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

. — Richard Culatta The urgency of such educational initiatives is underscored by a Pew Research Survey revealing that 44 percent of adults aged 18 to 49 report they are online almost constantly. Even our youngest students do some activities on the computer. We interact with technology as a key aspect of our daily activities.

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JULY 14, 2022

Could computer programs match the abilities of our brains? Recreating its behaviour using computer programs is no easy task, but it can be done – by using artificial intelligence hardware that mimics the deeply complex networks of neuron cells in our brains. TALK LIKE AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCHER.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. Objectives and Steps The objectives of this lesson are (use the lines in front of each item to check them off as completed): Understand that computers can be used to visit far-away places and learn new things. But, not at school).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

And it’s part of a steady decline in spending on course materials since the 2007-08 school year, when students were coughing up $701 on course materials. Those students didn’t actually save much money—about $24 on average—and are more likely to consider dropping out, according to the researchers behind the report.

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STEMe

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The efforts of the researchers who use it to improve the stock market cannot go understated, yet their real work remains shrouded in obscurity. However, with the development of computers, quantitative analysis became particularly striking as computers could perform calculations millions of times faster than any human.

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STEM Next

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From a Week of Computer Science to A Year of Possibilities: Five Ideas to Take into 2023. We celebrate the incredible effort that made Computer Science Education Week 2022 a resounding success. Deaf Kids Code facilitated a project-based learning opportunity in a deaf program in Chicago Public schools hosted by Cook Biotech.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Good intentions to give all students access to the world’s knowledge were derailed by the cost of the websites and webtools that made that happen. Access this catalog via the website. Access this collection via the website.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 3, 2022

Honestly, I missed people and a lot of people I know in CS Education and CS Ed research are here. She started publishing and researching what became object oriented programming while I was in the early stages of my career. I hope we can get access to her talk and show it to students. There is a lot to learn here as well.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. This makes AI-related features accessible to almost every edtech company,” he added.

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. He’s applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats! aimed at teaching concepts of computational thinking to kids ages 3 to 6. Edouard is no stranger to making media.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

Hope that school might return to normal in the fall is quickly dimming as new COVID-19 variants threaten to pummel communities throughout the country and COVID hospitalization rates increase. All signs point to record teacher and staff departures at schools across the country. There’s a key equity dimension of this research.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The positive impact of teachers has been extensively substantiated through years of research highlighting that teacher effectiveness is the most important school-based factor related to student achievement and outcomes. From PLTW research, 67 percent of teachers felt PLTW made them more satisfied with their careers.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see? Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning. Over the past few decades, there have been great strides in this area.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. According to a study conducted by Challenge Success, a school reform nonprofit, high school students are already doing more homework than they were before the pandemic, averaging 3 hours of homework a night, up from 2.7

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Computing Education Research Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Both Barb and the Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community awardee, Simon, earned their PhD’s later in life, both within the last 10 years. The work I’m doing these days is computing education, but it’s not in the mainstream of CS education — I focus on computing education for people who don’t want to study CS.

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