Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2024

Generative AI is an exploding influence in education with lots of potential but unknown outcomes. Most people focus on its impact on school research, lesson plans–that sort–but another piece isn’t considered often enough: its impact on student mental health. This next article from but we’ll do in this article from Education Week does Educators, teens differ on AI’s mental health effects Teens and educators hold divergent views on its mental health effects of AI, wit

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All About STEM

APRIL 17, 2024

Your students can join STEM Learning’s new webinar and meet a STEM Ambassador who is an engineer. It’s a fantastic opportunity for learners to find out about their job and ask questions! “In this free 30-minute webinar, you and your KS2 class will have the opportunity to meet a STEM Ambassador who is an engineer and hear all about their role!

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Middle Web

APRIL 17, 2024

The missteps of middle schoolers may be "developmentally appropriate" but we still need to guide students to do better, writes school leader Jody Passanisi. "Students this age often rise to the expectations that are set for them. That is developmentally appropriate, too." The post It May Be Developmental and Still Not Appropriate first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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All About STEM

APRIL 17, 2024

Students can use their Faraday Challenge experience to achieve a CREST Award! IET Faraday® Challenge Days are cross-curricular STEM activity days designed for Year 8 students in England and Wales, S1/S2 students in Scotland and Year 9 students in Northern Ireland.

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

Maintaining clear and effective communication with students can be a struggle for teachers. Recognizing this, portable audio systems offer a practical solution. Portable audio can enable teachers to overcome communication barriers and ensure that every student can hear instructions and explanations clearly, regardless of the teaching environment. Whether indoors or outdoors, during routine classroom activities or special events like field trips, portable audio systems provide educators with the

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Online Math for All

APRIL 17, 2024

First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus - Part 1

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STEM Sport

APRIL 17, 2024

Mentoring programs are an impactful way to assist students throughout their STEM learning journey. Through STEM mentoring programs, students make real-world connections with successful STEM professionals, leading to increased engagement in the classroom. This relationship with a STEM mentor allows students to ask questions, get guidance, better navigate their education, and make a more seamless transition into the STEM workforce.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Executive functions are self-regulating skills that we use every single day. Imagine a child sitting in the classroom during a typical school day. They must pay attention to something even if they find it boring, tune out any distractions, suppress their impulses that may get them into trouble, try to retain multiple pieces of information in their brain simultaneously, and switch between different rules.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. Over the past few years, more literacy tools have been using generative AI, either to accelerate children’s reading proficiency or to stimulate more reading interest. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged. Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stori

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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.

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