Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2023

Since we at Ask a Tech Teacher started this blog fourteen years ago, we’ve had almost 5.9 million views, about 10,000 followers who read some or all of our 2,931 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

You have to see it to be it, the saying goes. Students have to know a job exists before they can ever become interested in it. The Indiana Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs is embracing a modern twist on the philosophy by rolling out a virtual reality career exploration program to sites across the state. It’s an education tool that feels like a game to the kids who use it, Executive Director Lana Taylor says, and it has helped clubs reconnect with teens who fell off their radar during the first

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. It’s commonsense, but it’s also reinforced by hundreds of studies ( An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle ).

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Middle Web

JANUARY 2, 2023

After reflecting on her students' decline in fluently recalling math facts and the lapses in her teaching flow, Kathie Palmieri knew it was time to make changes. First up: involving students in uncovering the roadblocks and taking a week to try out their fog-lifting ideas. The post Lifting My Students Out of the Math Fact Fog first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Teach Science for All

JANUARY 2, 2023

In my work teaching preservice and inservice teachers about the Next Generation Science Standards I like to think that I have a certain “expertise” about the Science and Engineering Practices.

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Engineering Science Sciences Teaching 72

MooMoo Math & Science

JANUARY 2, 2023

The 8 Planets Mercury is both very hot and very cold. Mercury has many craters on its surface due to its thin atmosphere. It only takes Mercury 88 days to revolve around the sun but slightly more than 58 days to rotate on its axis. Venus is the hottest of all of the planets Venus has no moons or rings On Venus the sun rises in the west and sets in the east because Venus spins backwards on its axis.

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CTE Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

LinkedIn recently published an article discussing the trend of companies in the tech world shifting toward hiring contractors instead of full-time employees. Because we here at CTeLearning work with secondary students and adult learners who are seeking to enter the tech world, we took notice of this trend. So why is this happening? First, let’s look at some of the pros and cons of being a contractor as opposed to a full-time employee.

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STEM Discovery Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Insights from Inside the Classroom appeared first on Discovery Education Blog.

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Education Education 56

CTE Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

LinkedIn recently published an article discussing the trend of companies in the tech world shifting toward hiring contractors instead of full-time employees. Because we here at CTeLearning work with secondary students and adult learners who are seeking to enter the tech world, we took notice of this trend. So why is this happening? First, let’s look at some of the pros and cons of being a contractor as opposed to a full-time employee.

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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. Buoyed by appointments from Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin—who made wading into education fights a staple of his campaign—the board scalpelled out many of the proposed revisions that had been intended to create more diverse representation in lessons in Virginia schools.

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