Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Time: About 30 minutes Steps: Open MS Word. Add a title–Where We Are (or your choice)–centered, bold and font 14. Use this to teach students about the tool bar’s alignment tools, bold, fonts and font size Insert a graphic organizer ( insert-diagram or one you have pushed out to students). Have this as part of a series of lessons that use graphic organizers and never use the same one.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Today, a 20-acre stretch of green space known as the “ Coy facility ” remains an active school campus in East Austin. But soon, Austin Independent School District will convert it into an apartment complex to house teachers and staff who are increasingly getting priced out of the urban Texas district. The goal is to create at least 500 new rental units on the site, alleviating — if not solving — the housing burden that so many of the district’s 10,000 staff members say they face.

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Talk STEM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

talkSTEM refers to STEM as a “real-world, inquiry-based exploration of the world around us, to break down artificial barriers between disciplines” In a Women in Tech panel hosted by the University of Dallas at Texas in collaboration with talkSTEM, a STEM mindset was defined as learning how to continuously educate oneself, explore, and become brave enough to make mistakes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all in our heads. But what if those typical metaphors for our brains are limiting our capacities to think and learn?

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Educators worldwide face the challenge of assessing students effectively. The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for interactive assessments to keep students engaged, whether in-person or online. For instance, interactive displays became valuable tools for remote learning and adhering to social distancing guidelines when students returned to in-class instruction.

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Middle Web

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This year Katie Durkin’s 7th grade ELA students are involved in a weekly routine of G.R.O.W. work (Grammar, Reading, Open Write, and Word Work). Each 15-minute lesson aims to ‘grow’ stamina and literacy skills they can apply in her class and across the academic disciplines. The post Routines Can Help Grow Student Literacy Skills first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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CTE Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We are so proud to be working with a great lineup of schools from all over the country in the 2023-2024 school year. Whether we are working with a school for the first year or the 15th year, we appreciate all the teachers, administrators, parents and students who have chosen to work with us. We spent the summer hard at work improving our curricula and are pleased to announce changes that will enhance the learning experience for students and teaching experience for teachers.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In today's episode, we sit down with Stephanie DeLussey, a dual-certified veteran special education teacher, IEP coach, and author of the upcoming book “The Intentional IEP.” Stephanie shares her unique insights into the often daunting process of writing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art? Published: While art and science are often separated in academia, there is a lot to be learnt by considering them together. Dr Dirk Bernhardt-Walther and Dr Claudia Damiano , at the University of Toronto in Canada, and Dr Pinaki Gayen , at Visva Bharati University in India, are combining their expertise in cognitive neuroscience and visual art to investigate patterns in how abstract art conveys specific emotions.

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