Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Read how math teachers use modern tools, technologies, and techniques to teach the subject, from one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors: How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers Prospective teachers researching online teaching certification and hoping to learn all they can about being a math teacher will do well to include tech tools in their quest for knowledge.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard. It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. The podcast included not just the radio show, but an extended conversation, where the guests kept talking after the formal interview and covered points they didn’t have time to get to on the broadcast.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! There are so many fantastic resources on AI out there, but I have been noticing that some of them feel very hype-ish and even written by AI. So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the first part here. As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic.

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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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Box Light

JULY 25, 2023

Why is STEM education important in today's rapidly changing world, and how does it benefit students in their future endeavors and overall learning experience?

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STEM Sport

JULY 25, 2023

The Value of Sports Statistics in STEM Education Using sports statistics to facilitate STEM learning can be a highly effective and engaging way to connect core STEM concepts to real-world events and situations. This approach to education offers practical, relatable situations for students to explore – making complex STEM subjects more approachable.

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ED Week

JULY 25, 2023

Team STEAM is a program where high school students help elementary students develop STEM skills.

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Futurum

JULY 25, 2023

How does the Southern Ocean help protect our planet? Published: The Southern Ocean circulation system is vital for redistributing heat, carbon and nutrients around the world. It also plays a significant role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, having sequestered ~40% of anthropogenic CO2 absorbed by the oceans. Associate Professor Julie Trotter and Professor Malcolm McCulloch from The University of Western Australia , and Dr Paolo Montagna from the Institute of Polar Sciences in Bol

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