ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

At the beginning of her now nearly 30-year career, Leslie M. Gauna was given a warning: Bilingual education wouldn’t be a viable career option in the long term. Yet nowadays the need for Spanish-speaking teachers in the United States is as strong as ever, with districts around the country struggling to hire them fast enough. The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls t

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Equality Research Research Professor 351

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: I teach Spanish and need a quick way to add accents to words. Can you help? A: You can go through the symbols library, but there’s an easier way.

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Artificial Intelligence Computer Curriculum Creativity 310

ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

NEW YORK — Loyal Harmoni Harris travels every day to Bronx Regional High School, where she learns emotional, motor and language skills. Loyal is a bit younger than the other students at the high school — in fact, she’s only 2 years old. That’s because Loyal is part of a unique New York City program called LYFE — Living for the Young Family Through Education.

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Education Education Learning Economics 303

All About STEM

JANUARY 18, 2024

Have you visited the Apprenticeship Arcade? Amazing Apprenticeships has released a new set of resources for National Apprenticeship Week including two new Rapid Reads, new staffroom posters, a NAW2024 competition and NEW and updated Apprenticeship Arcade games!

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

Name-calling, often seen as harmless teasing, can deeply affect an individual's feelings about themselves and others. While some might say these words are just playful, it's important to understand the impact they can have over time. To wrap up No Name Calling Week , let's explore why it's crucial to raise awareness, be sensitive, and show empathy in our educational settings.

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Education Education Learning 88

Start-Engineering

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric Iversen Uh oh On a Friday afternoon in 2019, a British energy company executive got a call from his CEO asking him to move money to an account in Hungary to pay a bill that was about to come due. As most people do in response to requests from their boss, he got right on the job, transferring over $240,000 to the specified account. Except the call did not come from his CEO.

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Artificial Intelligence Government Engineering Energy 52

Jacobs Physics

JANUARY 18, 2024

Vanessa asks: How do you have students list the normal force and friction force on an object experiencing friction? Would both Fn and Ff be described as "the force of the surface on the object"? Or do you have them specify "the normal force of the surface acting on the object" and "the friction force of the surface acting on the object"? Just "force of track on cart" or "force of the ground on the cart" or similar, like you said.

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