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Best Navigation Apps for People with Visual Impairment

Educators Technology

The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of some of the best navigation apps to use with students or anyone with visual impairment. The apps are designed to help these individuals navigate their surroundings in a more accessible and comfortable way. These accessible mobility apps provide voice-guided navigation data including turn-by-turn navigation to facilitate exploring one's surrounding environment.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. I've been having trouble coming up with a good project for the students to work on. I want it to be something useful, interesting, and (perhaps most importantly) memorable, but I'm not sure what it should be. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative?

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Use Cases For Robotic Process Automation At Educational Institutions

Robot Lab

By Carla Jose. Image source: Softbank Robotics. Whether it is creating a favorable learning environment or holding teacher-parent meetings, administrative and educational processes in universities, colleges, and schools are filled with a lot of paperwork and repetitive processes. These processes consume a lot of resources and time, things that can be used in other areas to improve learning experiences.

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Physical Fitness, the Brain and Active Learning in the Classroom

PCS Edventures

It’s the start of August. Learners race outside for a few more days before the new school year begins. Meanwhile, you are pulling together resources that keep the fun and movement of summer going year-round. Why do this? We all know that a more active lifestyle is good for you (it’s healthy to be healthy), but did you know that physical activity in an educational environment dramatically increases student learning and retention?

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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STEM Lesson: Using Punnett Squares

Box Light

In this lesson Meredith Williams, 8 th grade science teacher and Boxlight MimioMaster, shares how she used the MyStemKits Punnett Squares Dice Kit to help her students review the concepts related to genetics and heredity.

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How the Webb Telescope Can Take Students Back a Long Time Ago, to Galaxies Far, Far Away

ED Week

Educators can use the show-stopping images to teach about astronomy, the scientific method, and how a big project comes together.

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Tips on How to Make Your Kid Love STEM Without Forcing Him

STEM Education Shopping

Who is this kid that would love math’s? or science? well, there is some of them but they love those fields because of the way that their parent represent it for them and this is the job of our article we will tell you what to do to make them love STEM. Every father or mother hopes her kids to get a great education the one that will get them a great job and allows for them to live with, the same thing that STEM jobs can give them.But have you ever think that is just that simple?

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Why Do Mosquito Bites Itch And Swell?Mosquitoes: the vampires of nature

Smore Science

Table of Contents. There’s nothing more frustrating than stopping yourself from scratching an itching mosquito bite. Why do mosquito bites itch and swell? Let’s see how this tiny organism can cause so much bother. How do mosquitoes feed and survive? Mosquitoes might be one of the least tolerated insects out there. But before you decide to hate them, remember that all organisms on earth are part of a delicate ecosystem , where each organism is connected to another.

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Poisson Probability Distribution - Formula and Real Life Examples

Basic-Mathematics

What is the Poisson probability distribution? Definition, explanation, and real life examples.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

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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Water Bending STEM Challenge

Smore Science

Water covers about 70% of our planet’s surface, and it makes up around 60% of our bodies. It is such a common substance that people often think it is “plain” or “boring.” But water actually has some interesting properties that make it a very unusual chemical! One of water’s interesting properties is that it is polar. When you hear the word “polar”, you are probably reminded of the North and South poles of the Earth.

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Jul 21, Interior Angles of a Quadrilateral

Online Math for All

Interior Angles of a Quadrilateral - Theorem - Solved Problems

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Jul 21, Using the Exterior Angle Theorem

Online Math for All

Using the Exterior Angle Theorem - Concept - Solved Problems

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Jul 21, Exterior Angles on the Same Side of the Transversal Theorem

Online Math for All

Exterior Angles on the Same Side of the Transversal Theorem

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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Jul 21, Exterior Angle and Remote Interior Angles of a Triangle

Online Math for All

Exterior Angle and Remote Interior Angles of a Triangle

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Jul 21, Absolute Value of Integers

Online Math for All

Absolute Value of Integers - Concept - Solved Examples

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Jul 21, Problems on Interior and Exterior Angles of Triangle

Online Math for All

Problems on Interior and Exterior Angles of Triangle

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Jul 21, Exterior Angle and Remote Interior Angles Worksheet

Online Math for All

Exterior Angle and Remote Interior Angles Worksheet

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Jul 21, Interior Angles of a Quadrilateral Worksheet

Online Math for All

Interior Angles of a Quadrilateral Worksheet

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Jul 21, Consecutive Exterior Angles Worksheet

Online Math for All

Consecutive Exterior Angles Worksheet

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Jul 21, Transforming Absolute Value Functions

Online Math for All

Transforming Absolute Value Functions

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Jul 21, Exterior Angle Property of a Triangle

Online Math for All

Exterior Angle Property of a Triangle

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Jul 21, Absolute Value of Integers Worksheet

Online Math for All

Absolute Value of Integers Worksheet

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Jul 21, Consecutive Exterior Angles Theorem

Online Math for All

Consecutive Exterior Angles Theorem

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Jul 21, Problems Involving Exterior Angles of a Triangle

Online Math for All

Problems Involving Exterior Angles of a Triangle

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Jul 21, Problems on Exterior Angles of a Triangle

Online Math for All

Problems on Exterior Angles of a Triangle

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