Wed.Dec 14, 2022

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9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence

Ask a Tech Teacher

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer — December 13th. 9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence — December 14th.

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Why STEM is Important for Students, Schools, and Society

Accelerate Learning

The buzz around STEM education continues to grow as teachers discover how it builds creative problem-solving through connections to real-world applications.

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Supporting the Primary Curriculum – CREST

All About STEM

The British Science Association & CREST Awards offer a comprehensive guide to primary CREST which maps projects with the curriculum. “Project-based activities like those offered by CREST have been a lifeline for educators. While CREST activities are often used as enrichment tools to encourage extra-curricular student engagement with STEM subjects, many directly support learning within the science.

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The Best-Led Schools Put Communication First

Middle Web

Creating a dynamic communication model so that information flows effectively among the leadership team, faculty and staff, and parents and stakeholders helps nurture a culture and climate of shared leadership where all voices are heard and appreciated, writes AP DeAnna Miller. The post The Best-Led Schools Put Communication First first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Employers: Host a Nuffield Research Placement

All About STEM

You can place talented young people at the heart of your organisation by hosting a Nuffield Research Placement. Placements are offered to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to increase opportunities to access university courses and STEM-related careers. You can work with top students to make significant contributions to your research and development projects. “We are looking for employers.

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Train Like An Astronaut: Mission X (Ages 8-12)

All About STEM

Mission X is an international educational challenge, focusing on fitness and nutrition, that encourages students to train like an astronaut. Young people learn the principles of healthy eating and exercise, take part in training modules, and get excited about the world’s future in space and the educational possibilities for their own future. There’s even a Walk to the Moon Challenge!

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SAMR, Ed Tech, and Your Classroom - How It All Works Together

Box Light

The mission to implement educational technology in classrooms has grown substantially over the last few years. Districts are driven to invest in ed tech solutions that are comprehensive, integrate with current learning management systems (LMS), and are turnkey. While having the technology is wonderful, not using them properly or to their full potential is still a struggle.

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How can wing design improve aircraft flight?

Futurum

How can wing design improve aircraft flight? Published: Aviation technology has come a long way since the Wright brothers made the first successful motor-powered flight in 1903. Today, aeronautical engineers are focused on improving the efficiency of aircraft, by designing longer, thinner, more flexible wings. At the University of Bristol , UK, Dr Punsara Navaratna and Dr Alessandro Pontillo are developing new testing and modelling techniques for novel wing design and the added complexities of a

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Solar Flares – Can They Harm Humans? Effects of Solar Flares on Humans

Smore Science

Table of Contents. Carrington Event. Imagine this: it is a brisk September fall in Colorado, 1859. You are a gold miner, working deep in the mines resting in a warm tent, hiding from the Rocky Mountain weather. Suddenly – a magnificent glow appears outside your tent, brightening the sky despite it being the middle of the night. It was the aurora borealis , in locations where the “Northern Lights” never occurs.

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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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Dec 14, Math Practice Test for 8th Grade

Online Math for All

Math Practice Test for 8th Grade Practice questions with options

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35 Bible Verses About Parenting Every Parent Needs To Read

STEM Education Guide

Parenting has always been challenging, even for experienced parents. Each child comes with new traits that make parenting a learning journey. While some days are fun, other days can be overwhelming. God knew some days would be more challenging than others and provided inspirational Bible verses about parenting. As a parent, you’re likely to wage war against feeling inadequate, depressed, and weighed down by parenting roles and responsibilities.

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Dec 14, 8th Grade Math Problems with Answers

Online Math for All

8th Grade Math Problems with Answers - Practice questions with step by step solution

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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline. In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2 ; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and 13.0. In late June this year it was Version 13.1. And now we’re releasing Version 13.2. We continue to have a huge pipeline of R&D, some short term, some medium term, some long term (like decade-plus). Our goal is to deliver timely snapshots of where we’re at—so people can start using what we’ve built as quickly as possible.

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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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Could the U.S. Soon See a Federal Minimum Salary for Teachers?

ED Surge

Rep. Frederica Wilson has long felt that American teachers are undervalued, an opinion that developed during her time as a classroom teacher, a principal, a school board member and, eventually, as a member of Congress. And she believes the wages teachers are paid do not reflect the importance of their role in society. But Wilson, a Democrat from Florida, hopes to turn that around—starting today—with the introduction of the American Teacher Act, a bill that would establish a federal minimum salar