Fri.Nov 18, 2022

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14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them: Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app). Canadian Thanksgiving. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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The Importance of Computer Science Teaching For Young Learners

EiE Blog

In the 21st century, computer science has become an integral part of our lives and the lives of our youngest learners. Teaching essential computer science skills as early as kindergarten can prepare young learners for an increasingly technology-dependent future, including careers that haven’t been invented yet.

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Learner Analytics for Informed Teaching Strategies

Magic EdTech

In the year 2025, experts have estimated that 463 Zettabytes (ZB) of data will be generated every day; while the Big Data Analytics market in education will cross USD 36.12 Bn by 2027, growing consistently at 14.92% CAGR. With all this data being generated, it only makes the analysis of this data more precious than ever. This data affects school administration, policymaking, trend shifts, and market growth.

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Teens Know Climate Change Is Real. They Want Schools to Teach More About It

ED Week

Most high school students say climate change is real, but are iffy on the science behind global warming, a survey finds.

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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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Box and Whiskers Plot

Basic-Mathematics

Easily learn to construct a box and whiskers plot for a set of data by using the median and the extreme values.

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Makeblock mBot Neo Review: Make This Your First Coding Robot

STEM Education Guide

The mBot Neo is a great way to enhance your child’s hands-on concentration, logical thinking, and creativity. Learning a valuable skill like coding will increase opportunities, especially for children. It’s a fact coding is the way of the future; it’s going to be as necessary as learning to read. The great thing about it, learning to code can be fun!

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Genius Hour- Beyond a Class Period

Defined Learning

It’s not often that students find themselves unable to move, caught in a state of disbelief at something they’ve just discovered. It’s even rarer that they sprint across the classroom to share their discoveries with their teachers and classmates. These moments are the moments we remember as they capture complete and utter engagement.

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Learner Analytics for Informed Teaching Strategies

Magic EdTech

In the year 2025, experts have estimated that 463 Zettabytes (ZB) of data will be generated every day; while the Big Data Analytics market in education will cross USD 36.12 Bn by 2027, growing consistently at 14.92% CAGR. With all this data being generated, it only makes the analysis of this data more precious than ever. This data affects school administration, policymaking, trend shifts, and market growth.

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The Security Risks in Digitized DNA

STEMe

Katy, TX In recent years, direct-to-consumer DNA testing services have gained popularity. The digitization of DNA has the benefit of uncovering ancestry information and can have a significant positive impact on science and medical research. For instance, it can aid in the discovery of a cure for a fatal disease. It is necessary to store DNA in a database in order to digitize it.

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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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nuSTEM Newsletter 42 – UN Sustainability Goals: Responsible Consumption and Production, Affordable Clean Energy, Clean Water and Sanitation

Northeastern University

Welcome to Newsletter 42! >> Click Here for this week’s Newslette r << Welcome back! For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030. In our newsletter you will be introduced to a STEM topic and find a related-activity to work on during the week (please share your results with us!

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The World-Changing Bacteria

STEMe

Toronto, ON A barren landscape devoid of obvious life, an atmosphere full of methane with little to no oxygen gas, and oceans that cover almost the entire surface of the planet. If we were to time travel three billion years into the past, these would be characteristics that our planet Earth would exhibit. These alien-like features of Earth’s past are vastly different from the features we see today.

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nuSTEM Newsletter 42 – UN Sustainability Goals: Responsible Consumption and Production, Affordable Clean Energy, Clean Water and Sanitation

Northeastern University

Welcome to Newsletter 42! >> Click Here for this week’s Newslette r << Welcome back! For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030. In our newsletter you will be introduced to a STEM topic and find a related-activity to work on during the week (please share your results with us!

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Nov 18, What is Proper Fraction

Online Math for All

What is Proper Fraction - Definition and Example

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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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Easy Notecards- Free Notecards, Flashcards, Quizzes, and Games

Educators Technology

Easy Notecards is a web tool that enables teachers and students to create interactive notecards to use for a wide variety of educational purposes including: studying vocabulary, testing prior knowledge, reading comprehension check, exit slips, and many more. Teachers can also use notecards and flashcards for formative assessment purposes, t hat is, to test students ongoing knowledge as they learn new content.

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Nov 18, What is Improper Fraction

Online Math for All

What is Improper Fraction - Definition and Example - Conversion between Improper Fraction and Mixed Number

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Best Online History Games

Educators Technology

The purpose of this post is to provide teachers, parents, and students (and anyone else interested in learning history) with a handpicked collection of interactive history games to help with history learning. All you need is a browser and an Internet connection. The games are engaging, interactive, and fun to play. Students won’t complain again about history being boring!

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Here Is How Easily Change Background on Zoom

Educators Technology

Zoom' s Virtual Background feature enables you to display 'an image or video as your background during a Zoom meeting'. Virtual backgrounds allow you to hide your real-life background providing you with more privacy and giving your meetings a professional look. Zoom offers a wide variety of ready made virtual backgrounds that you easily apply to your video meetings or you can upload and use your own images and videos.