Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: I deleted a file by accident. Category: Problem-solving.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
We are amidst a Fourth Industrial Revolution. Careers across all fields continue to become more integrated with, and dependent on, rapidly evolving digital technologies. K-12 learning opportunities must prepare students with the necessary skills to succeed in Industry 4.0. This includes developing competency in social-emotional learning, design thinking and computational thinking, whether or not students eventually study computing or engineering or enter the information technology industry.
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Educators Technology
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
There are many reasons for blurring backgrounds in photos. First, there is the aesthetic consideration. You may want to blur the photo background in order to accentuate a certain element and create depth of field for your photo. There is also the privacy factor. You may want to apply the blur background effect to photos in order to blur out sensitive information and render certain elements unidentifiable.
All About STEM
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The Liverpool City Region Careers Hub has shared a new Careers & Apprenticeships video for students in association with Livv Housing. Livv Housing Group is an independent housing association, providing affordable, quality homes for around 25,000 people, through over 13,000 properties in Knowsley, Merseyside. The video includes: An Introduction to Livv Housing Group Careers within Livv Housing.
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.
Smore Science
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The answer is in its name, right? Killer whale? You may be surprised to know that orcas are actually more closely related to…dolphins! Weird, huh? Here, we will delve into the taxonomy of these majestic marine mammals, and learn a little bit more about why they are classified as dolphins and not whales. Two orcas in Alaska, United States, Credit: Wikimedia/ Christopher Michel.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Futurum
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
How are control engineers improving the sustainability of irrigated agriculture? Published: Globally, less than 60% of the water diverted into irrigation networks is used productively. This inefficiency is partly due to outdated infrastructure and manual operating practices that can result in wasteful spillage at the end of the open-water distribution channels and poor service to farmers.
Box Light
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Boxlight is proud to announce that our own MimioSTEM was named Best STEM Solution in the inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards program presented by the American Consortium for Equity in Education ( ACE-ED ). This competitive awards program honoring schools, educators, and industry received more than 160 total nominations from across the U.S. and abroad.
K-12 Education News
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
If you've ever had the feeling that your elementary school kids were 'smarter' than you -- or at least capable of picking up new information and skills faster -- a new study suggests you're absolutely right. The new study also offers a reason: kids and adults exhibit differences in a brain messenger known as GABA, which stabilizes newly learned material.
Basic-Mathematics
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Check out this lesson. You will discover that finding the perimeter of a square is simple and straightforward.
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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.
Know Adam's Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
“Most of all, have the confidence in every learner’s ability to think and your capacity to nurture that thinking. The results will amaze and energize you.” - Ron Ritchhart. Why are thinking routines useful in the classroom? Visible thinking routines actively engage students in independent thinking, creativity, and imagination by engaging students’ thinking moves.
Futurum
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Piece by piece: a heartfelt memoir of a boy who built his prosthetic arm from LEGO. Published: In November 2020, we featured David Aguilar Amphoux in ‘How to build a STEAM generation’, issue 6 of Futurum. Two years later, David has written a memoir alongside his father Ferran about his journey to becoming a role model for millions worldwide. Not all of us will know what it is like to live with a disability, but all of us will have experienced challenges that seem insurmountable at the time.
Know Adam's Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
“Most of all, have the confidence in every learner’s ability to think and your capacity to nurture that thinking. The results will amaze and energize you.” - Ron Ritchhart. Why are thinking routines useful in the classroom? Visible thinking routines actively engage students in independent thinking, creativity, and imagination by engaging students’ thinking moves.
Online Math for All
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
How to Find Least Common Multiple of Three Numbers
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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!
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Sanaa Sharrieff, a mother based in one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Guilford County, is certain that where her son was born limited his education. Her son, Kendrick, an 8-year-old in third grade, was diagnosed with autism last year. But she says she’s had her suspicions about his condition since he was 2 or 3. Confirmation took so long, she says, because her area doesn't have as much support for health care as other places.
Futurum
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
“We have to dig in and pull the inner innovator out of everyone.”. Published: Gitanjali Rao was only 11 years old when she developed Tethys , a device that detects lead in drinking water. Now aged 17, she has invented two more health technologies, taken part in four TED talks and written a book called The Young Innovator’s Guide to STEM. Gitanjali tells us why she is on a mission to help more young people solve world problems.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
One of the most selective college scholarship programs in the U.S. could wind down in the next few years if it doesn’t raise a substantial sum to shore up its endowment. The program is the Mitchell Scholarship, which sends 12 undergraduates to study at a university in Ireland every year. Run by the nonprofit US-Ireland Alliance created in 1998 to administer the scholarship, the program is more selective than Harvard, and some years it’s harder to win than a Rhodes Scholarship.
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