Collaborative Learning in Science
Accelerate Learning
JULY 27, 2023
Collaborative or Cooperative? Learn more about collaborative learning and strategies to help you implement it in your class.
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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South
ED Surge
APRIL 19, 2024
In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. Students will learn to think like scientists.
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Playful Pedagogy: Gamer Types and Board Games for Inclusive Learning
ED Surge
MARCH 18, 2024
Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. It recognizes the importance of enjoyment, curiosity and exploration in facilitating effective learning experiences.
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Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 15, 2024
Collaborative Writing and Peer Review The adage “two heads are better than one” holds true in the realm of writing, as collaborative efforts and peer review can yield invaluable insights and constructive feedback.
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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. I had the blessing of teaching her daughter and collaborating with her. It was just a mess.
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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 12, 2024
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students can build apps and collaboration skills at the same time. Today's episode features my friend Alefiya Master, the CEO of MAD-Learn, and the sponsor of today's show. When people ask me my favorite App-building tool, I always say MAD-Learn.
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Empowering Teachers and Inspiring Students for a STEM-Driven Future
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Professional development allows teachers to continue to improve their practice, learn new strategies and content, and engage students. Research has found that effective professional development is content-focused, incorporates active learning and supports collaboration.
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Equity In The Classroom: Making Science Accessible For All Students
Accelerate Learning
MAY 25, 2023
They don’t want to see students fall behind, but everyone learns differently and comes into the classroom with a different level of preparedness. With the right tools and activities that promote a collaborative learning space, even equity in science is achievable. All teachers want to see their students succeed.
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Can Third Graders Learn Data Science? These Researchers Say Yes
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. It just showed how much kids wanted to learn about this.” It’s not in our DNA; we have to learn it.
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The Science of Coaching Teachers
ED Surge
MAY 27, 2022
Matt Gibson spends a lot of his time thinking about how people learn. As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice.
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How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community
ED Surge
APRIL 24, 2023
This project was guided by Anni Kumar, a seasoned educator and head of the computer science department at Vikas Bharati Public School. Kumar has been a teacher for 19 years and is passionate about creating a learning environment that fosters critical thinking, collaboration and creativity among her students.
Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better
Cool Cat Teacher
MAY 4, 2023
Figjam is a cool, flexible, fun, collaborative space for student projects, presentations, and collaborations. Outline of: Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better Sponsor: Research Quest Introducing Tom Mullaney What is Figma? What is Figjam? How do these apps work? This is episode 804.
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How to Become a Citizen Scientist
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 14, 2023
Wilson: an influential biologist and conservationist who promoted citizen science initiatives such as the “School of Ants” Margaret and Geoffrey Leaney: husband-and-wife team who developed methods for rearing insects Are you interested? This is where citizen science comes in.
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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?
ED Surge
OCTOBER 16, 2023
It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments.
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Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In this monthly column, I share a popular post from the past month on my writer’s blog, WordDreams I’ve started a new collaboration over there with an exciting writer’s blog called Story Empire. A lot of teacher-authors read both my education blog (this one–Ask a Tech Teacher) and my writer’s blog (WordDreams).
3 Fun Tech Classroom Projects for Summer
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 10, 2023
Elementary School – Interactive Learning Apps Picture your elementary school classroom filled with excited young learners, their eyes glued to their screens as they explore new ideas and grasp essential skills through educational apps. Here are great ideas from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew on how to keep tech fresh this summer.
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Unlock the Secrets: Expert Homework Hacks for Busy Parents
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 11, 2024
Brian is the creator of the Homework Hacks Course , designed to equip students aged 13 to 20 with research-backed homework hacks and independent learning strategies. We can help our children learn! When people ask me my favorite App-building tool, I always say MAD-Learn. MAD-Learn is an amazing collaborative app building tool.
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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD
Cool Cat Teacher
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Go to coolcatteacher.com/modern right now to sign up for the Modern Classrooms essential course for free where you will learn about the strategies, research, and resources that can drive student-centered, self-directed learning in your classroom. Reinart's comprehensive school reform model has been widely recognized.
To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom
ED Surge
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now you want kids to collaborate, and even copy ideas from each other and learn. There was a lot more unguided play when I started my teaching career 15 years ago.
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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.
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Chrome Music Lab- Learn Music Through Fun and Hands-on Activities
Educators Technology
AUGUST 27, 2022
Chrome Music Lab is a great music learning website that you can use with your students in class. Chrome Music Lab features a wide variety of experiments that help users learn music through fun and hands-on activities. Users can create their own music and melodies and collaborate with others in real time.
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Powerful Learning With Artificial Intelligence For Educators
ED Surge
DECEMBER 13, 2023
School and district leaders have shared challenges that they are facing regarding the use of AI for teaching and learning. AI has the ability to expand what learning looks like within a particular discipline, introducing novel teaching strategies and applications for concepts. What Is AI Literacy?
Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 16, 2024
As students, technology aids in learning, research, and collaboration, while in the professional realm, it becomes a tool for productivity, communication, and innovation. For instance, a student in the field of data science might initially need a laptop capable of running statistical software for class projects.
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Is AI a Pathway to Better Teaching and Learning?
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students. Alessandra Sala, the President for Women In AI and Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock, are clear about how much potential generative AI has in shaping education in the future.
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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development
Cool Cat Teacher
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Recently, I took a course from Advancement Courses called Teaching Computer Science in 6-12. This blog post will discuss my experience and share what I created related to computer science. After completion, I believe that I received a world-class education about teaching Computer Science. Content-Focused with Active Learning.
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How Makerspaces in Schools Can Support Student Mental Health
ED Surge
MAY 19, 2023
Makerspaces in schools are a place where the normal rules of classroom learning are tossed aside in favor of just a couple — have fun, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Perkins, an associate professor of technology education, has a background in library science and art education.
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Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. Black, Latinx, and women students are especially at risk.
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To Understand ChatGPT’s Impact on Higher Education, Think Like a Scientist
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 advance the teaching and learning experience. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.
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Fields of Opportunity: Cultivating Youth Development and Online Access
ED Surge
JANUARY 3, 2024
The four Hs in 4-H — Head, Heart, Hands and Health — embody values cultivated through experiential learning initiatives. 4-H's affiliation with land-grant universities , specifically through the Cooperative Extension System , also ensures a robust research and science foundation for an organization dedicated to youth development.
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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'
ED Surge
MARCH 13, 2024
Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.
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The Cycle of Experimentation: A New Approach to Educational Innovation
Cool Cat Teacher
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
In this webinar, we will dive deep into the strategies that drive meaningful change in instructional approaches and student learning, and learn the hallmarks of top-notch professional development experiences that support educators along the path toward classroom innovation. Don't worry, you can also listen to the recording.
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CoderZ Launches New TEKS Aligned Computer Science Curriculum for Grades 3-8
CoderZ
APRIL 15, 2024
About CoderZ’s Commitment to Computer Science in Texas Demand for skilled STEM occupations is growing rapidly around the country, and especially in Texas where the government estimates these roles will make up 10.5% of total state employment.
Why This Large Illinois District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement
ED Surge
APRIL 4, 2022
As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. Here, she explains how Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative factors into that ambitious plan.
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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)
ED Surge
JANUARY 3, 2023
More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues : Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious. Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious.
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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books
ED Surge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
It seemed like the beginning of a new era, when scholars and the public could make new connections and discoveries in the kind of mass digital library that had previously been the stuff of science fiction. Lots and lots of individual libraries and library collaborations were active in digitization. The Internet Archive was active.
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Does Science Still Have a Seat at the Table?
STEM Next
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) had told science teachers that kids learn science best through a hands-on, interactive, student-centered, and inquiry-based approach (see NSTA Position Statement ). The report asserted the highest priority was to revitalize K-12 science and mathematics education.
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Celebrating Earth Day: Free Activities For Inspiring STEM Learning for a Sustainable Future
STEM for Kids
APRIL 18, 2024
Beyond its symbolic significance, Earth Day plays a crucial role in promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. Importance of Earth Day in STEM Learning: Inspiring Environmental Citizenship: Earth Day serves as a powerful catalyst for instilling a sense of environmental and citizen responsibility in students.
A Serious Look at Game-Based Learning
ED Surge
OCTOBER 25, 2022
“I've always thought games were good models for everything—how to learn, but also how to be,” says Arana Shapiro. Now the Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer at Games for Change , Shapiro stands at the vanguard of a movement to both normalize and prioritize game-based instruction in schools. So, I joined her team.
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Creating a Makerspace in Your Classroom
Teach Hub
MARCH 26, 2024
In today’s classrooms, there’s a growing trend towards creating a more interactive learning experience for students. This is a designated area for hands-on learning that helps to foster creativity and other essential skills among students. This engagement can lead to a more fulfilling learning experience for students.
Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students
Educators Technology
OCTOBER 14, 2022
In fact, some of the basic founding principles of human knowledge are interdependence, accumulation, and collaboration. Subjects covered include history, physics, psychology, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, geography, education, business, law, environment, energy, and many more.
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STEM Everyday #257 | STEM & Art | feat. Gareth Campbell
STEM Everyday Podcast
JANUARY 15, 2024
And students crave context to connect with their internal motivation to learn. Many students found it eye opening to have a science teacher that also worked as an artist, and often it made them rethink their own career paths.” Connect with Gareth & The MoSAIC: Website themosaic.uk
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Embracing Flexibility: Enhancing Robotics and Computer Science Classes
CoderZ
JULY 10, 2023
With the growing demand for robotics and computer science education , it’s essential to equip ourselves with versatile tools that promote flexibility and adaptability in the classroom. In this article, we will explore how embracing flexibility and innovation can enhance your robotics and computer science classes.
ESL & ELL: Key Components in the Algorithm of Inclusive Computer Science Education
CoderZ
DECEMBER 6, 2023
However, computer science emerges as a powerful tool, not just for coding and algorithms, but as a bridge that spans linguistic barriers. Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking Computer science is fundamentally about problem-solving and critical thinking. In our interconnected world, effective communication is key.
Brain Breaks: The Science Behind it and the Benefits
Teach Hub
APRIL 8, 2024
The Science Behind Brain Breaks Most educators experience students’ glazed eyes, heads down, whispering, texting under the table and disruptive classroom behavior. However, teachers who understand brain science know why these student behaviors happen. Learning begins at the Reticular Activating System (RAS) inside the brain.
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