Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2024

Keyboarding for Youngers A while ago, I participated in an online discussion about keyboarding for kids. The host thought it would be a yawner, but any tech teacher knows keyboarding is a controversial subject. In my classroom, it’s the most-asked question from parents, concerns like: When do students start? What are some of the developmental considerations about keyboarding?

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.

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All About STEM

MARCH 19, 2024

Spring is here – YES! It’s the perfect time for outdoor learning so we’ve brought together a list of CREST activities that fit the bill. (Don’t worry, most are great for indoors too – in case it rains!) CREST is a STEM enrichment programme for young people that inspires, enables and rewards open-ended project work.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. But one group is often left out of the design process: students. “Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival.

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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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Career in STEM

MARCH 19, 2024

Ever wonder how to map an underwater forest? Or what it takes to compose a symphony about space? Perhaps it would be fun to learn how we might one day communicate with astronauts on Mars? Or how people can restore their connection with water? And just what exactly would a person take with them on a journey to an “underwater spaceship’? All of these sound like pretty cool jobs don’t they?

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Jacobs Physics

MARCH 19, 2024

McGraw-Hill, publisher of the 5 Steps to a 5 AP prep book series, is sponsoring a free live physics show for students and teachers. I'll be presenting from my lab on Monday April 8, from 3:30-5:00pm eastern time. All are welcome! The way to join is, teachers (preferably) should "register" for free at this link. They won't ask for you to make a username and password, nor to receive marketing emails.

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Ellipsis Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Interdisciplinary Connections: Science March 19, 2024 Whitney Dove, Ph.D CEO Published 2/17/2022, Updated 3/19/2024 Ellipsis Education understands that teachers are very often juggling many competing initiatives all at once. As a team made up of many former educators, we empathize with this reality. We have made it our mission to ease the burden for teachers by providing a curriculum that addresses multiple priorities while simultaneously promoting high-quality computer science learning.

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