ED Surge
JUNE 24, 2022
We are just over two years into the pandemic for COVID-19, and my students are finally back in the classroom and learning in-person. Keeping my students motivated is still a challenge, and I’ve noticed an important change in their attitude to technology: Just using tech for activities and projects has not been inspiring my students like it did before the pandemic.
Educators Technology
JUNE 24, 2022
The purpose of today's post is to provide history teachers (and history aficionados for that matter) with a collection of useful history search websites to help them search for, locate, and.read more.
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ED Surge
JUNE 24, 2022
Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. The reason? A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones. “Unlike Vemo, Launch does not provide ISA origination support functions but instead only services those agreements that have already been entered into by Purdue
Robot Lab
JUNE 24, 2022
By Carla Jose. Image Source: Pexels. Robotics isn’t just a technology that’s suitable for manufacturing and other major industries; it also has applications in an education context. Of course robotics systems are not always affordable for the average school, college or university. So what grants and support schemes are out there which could bring high end systems within reach of average institutions?
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.
ED Surge
JUNE 24, 2022
Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University. And there was particular concern over students losing skills in those areas during the pandemic, especially in K-12.
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STEM Everyday Podcast
JUNE 24, 2022
Kids love to be creative. Erik Thorstensson learned that when he created a simple connector that allowed for the joining of straws and cardboard. Kids were instantly hooked on the simple & intuitive STEM resource. Today, Strawbees is an award-winning Swedish EdTech company focused on inspiring the next generation of inventors. Using building and coding systems, and proven hands-on methodology, teachers worldwide are seeing student engagement soar using Strawbees.
Smore Science
JUNE 24, 2022
How Small is Nano? Defining a nanometer may be easy: One meter equals one billion nanometers. But it isn’t as easy to picture how small a nanometer really is. The first step can be to try imagining a billion of something. If you asked a billion girls to stand on each other’s shoulders, they would stretch into space two-and-a-half times farther than the Moon.
Smore Science
JUNE 24, 2022
How Small is Nano? Defining a nanometer may be easy: One meter equals one billion nanometers. But it isn’t as easy to picture how small a nanometer really is. The first step can be to try imagining a billion of something. If you asked a billion girls to stand on each other’s shoulders, they would stretch into space two-and-a-half times farther than the Moon.
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