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A Helping Hand: Assistive Technology Tools for Writing

Ask a Tech Teacher

I don’t write enough about special needs so when Rose contacted me with an article idea, I was thrilled. Rose Scott is a literary teacher with a goal of making education comfortable for students with special needs. Her dream is to help students explore their talents and abilities. In this article, Rose writes about a little-known problem that students may unknowingly suffer from that may make it look like they are plagiarizing when–to them–they aren’t.

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A Playbook for Getting Millions of Unconnected Households Online

ED Surge

Schools are reopened, and students have resumed in-person learning. But some relics of the pandemic are still holding strong, including dependency on digital technology to aid learning. Many teachers, flush with devices and education software from the remote school days of yore, continue to assign homework that must be completed online, after hours.

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How Cloud Storage Benefits Education

Educators Technology

Emerging technologies are revolutionizing how organizations across industries operate, and the education sector is no exception. Over the last 10 years — particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — schools and colleges have had to adapt and evolve their approaches to learning and collaboration, opening the door to the “learn from anywhere” world.

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Stanford Report Says Emergency Remote Instruction Led to ‘Shift’ in University’s Identity

ED Surge

Higher education may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s true even for the most elite colleges. A group of researchers at Stanford University spent the past year documenting how teaching and student services changed at Stanford during emergency remote learning, and their report , released today, argues that there’s been a shift in the institution’s identity as a result.

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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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What’s So Wild About Wildfire?

Smore Science

Have you ever been mesmerized by flames? Whether it’s a crackling campfire or the tip of a birthday candle, fire is spellbinding. But fire can also be unpredictable and dangerous. Taming fire is like taming a tiger—you always risk it going wild. Finding the balance between fire as a tool and fire as a destructive force has challenged humans for a million years.

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Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics

Futurum

Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics. Published: We know that black holes exist through a mix of complex mathematics and astrophysics but linking mathematical ideas to what we can observe in the Universe is no easy task. Dr Daniel Terno and his team at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, are building a framework of characteristics that can be used to search for black holes in the Universe, but their findings may challenge our understanding of the fundamental laws of phy

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Do Elephants Have Good Memory?

Smore Science

Elephants often get praise for their impressive memory. It’s commonly known they can remember events from their past a year later. However, do elephants really have superior memory, or is this another common myth? Memory is complex. Should “good memory” be defined as remembering many different things all at once, or one thing for a long time? Additionally, why would an elephant need to have a good memory?

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How to Move Beyond Micromanaging in Class

Middle Web

Miriam Plotinsky asks for a mindset shift toward student autonomy and then focuses on creating deeper relationships so that students have a safe space to take risks. The goal? A less micromanaged, more student-directed learning environment, writes teacher Rebecca Crockett. The post How to Move Beyond Micromanaging in Class first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Benefits of OST Learning

EiE Blog

Out-of-school time (OST) learning can take many forms - from teacher-led programs designed to improve academic performance to multipurpose enrichment activities like clubs and sports. What all OST education efforts share is the wide range of benefits to learners who engage with academic and social activities when school is not in session.

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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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Getting Real in Avoiding Burnout and Finding Joy

Middle Web

Stress, excessive workload, unrealistic mandates, and daily expectations can add up to burnout. Jenny Grant Rankin’s First Aid for Teacher Burnout combines strategies to alleviate stress, streamline grading, tame technology and practice self care. Essential reading! The post Getting Real in Avoiding Burnout and Finding Joy first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Updates to OKTOPUS Software - Improved Teaching Tools for Accessibility & Ease of Use

Box Light

OKTOPUS is a teacher-friendly presentation and collaboration software designed for interactive whiteboards, projectors, and displays like the award-winning MimioPro 4 and ProColor 3 from Boxlight.* Current OKTOPUS users have enjoyed features such as annotation over a variety of applications, 70+ interactive teaching tools, polling capabilities with instant feedback, and educational games.

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How to Keep Kids’ Crafts Organized: 9 Ideas

STEM Education Guide

No parent has escaped it. We’ve all watched our beautifully organized craft areas turn into a sticky, giant mess overnight as our kids play with all their crafts. This is obviously a distraction for you, but working in a messy space can also hinder your child’s learning and creativity. Listed below are tips and materials that will help you keep your children’s crafts organized so that learning in the space will be a fun experience for them, rather than a stressful one.

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PTA in Schools: The Greatest Ally in the Battle Against Learning Loss

Thimble

PTAs, or Parent Teacher Association, in schools nationwide are leveraging the power of volunteers to combat COVID learning loss. Almost every school in America was forced into a remote or hybrid learning model in the spring of 2020. Those circumstances continued throughout the 2020-2021 school year for many districts in the US. The post PTA in Schools: The Greatest Ally in the Battle Against Learning Loss appeared first on Thimble Online STEM Classes.

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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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Oct 20, Graphing with Slope Intercept Form

Online Math for All

Graphing with Slope Intercept Form - Concept - Examples

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Oct 20, Graphing Lines in Slope Intercept Form Worksheet

Online Math for All

Graphing Lines in Slope Intercept Form Worksheet

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