Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2024

STEM education–Science, technology, engineering, and math–sounds intimidating, but is actually one of the most satisfying learning experiences students can participate in. Makeblock (an Ask a Tech Teacher sponsor) has some excellent resources for this field. Today, we’ll discuss: How Laser Cutter Brings New Inspiration to the Classroom STEM education is the need of this modern era, which is why teachers look for some interesting ways to teach these subjects and skills.

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All About STEM

MAY 3, 2024

In the Autumn Term 2024, STEM Learning is running a free online student mentoring programme, funded by GSK. All About Futures/ All About STEM is managing school engagement in the Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and Manchester regions. “We’re requesting that schools express their interest now if they might wish to be involved.

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Accelerate Learning

MAY 3, 2024

Play is a natural part of early childhood development, making play-based learning a perfect fit for preschool education. This approach supports learning across all developmental areas and builds cognitive, emotional, social, and physical skills.

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All About STEM

MAY 3, 2024

Research Placements and Experiences support students to work alongside academic and industry professionals and engage in real-life STEM or STEM-related research. Academic institutions and employers can inspire the next generation by providing a project and hosting a placement.

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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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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 3, 2024

Stephen Wolfram explores simple models of biological organisms as computational systems. A study of progressive development, multiway graphs of all possible paths and the need for narrowing the framework space.

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Defined Learning

MAY 3, 2024

Fostering entrepreneurship in the classroom encourages students to develop hard and soft skills, engage in problem-solving, and communicate effectively while pursuing their entrepreneurial ideas. Read about four key categories with examples for educating students on entrepreneurship and how to foster a "Dream Big" and "Never Give Up" mentality.

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STEMe

MAY 3, 2024

Have you ever heard about the secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius )? They are also referred to as hunter-birds because of how they hunt their food. They are the tallest raptor, or bird of prey, in the world. There are approximately 482 species of raptors, which are distant relatives of the Secretary Bird. The secretary bird, the sole species of the Sagittarius family, was initially documented by John Frederick Miller in 1779.

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Online Math for All

MAY 3, 2024

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MAY 3, 2024

Living inside of your gut at this very moment is a diverse array of microorganisms, composed of a variety of bacteria, archaea, and viruses, first introduced during birth and later influenced throughout life by genetics and the environment. Aa research takes a closer look at the interaction within the gut microbiota, the current focus of research lies on the bacteria and analyzing the impact of their diversity on the human body or health conditions/diseases upon bacterial microbiota diversity.

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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

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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