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Tech Tip #168: Software vs. Online Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Software vs. Online Tools Category: Pedagogy Here are relevant criteria for evaluating software vs. online tools in your classroom: For more detail on comparing software and online t

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Monster Project Using Makey Makeys and Scratch

User Generated Education

This project takes the Monster Project and enhancing it with interactivity created through using Scratch and Makey Makeys. It was inspired by the Makey Makey Hack a Toy Lesson. Part of the lesson included the 5th graders interviewing 1st graders. This Edutopia article discussed the benefits of interviewing – Learning to Interview Builds a Range of Communication Skills [link] Standards Addressed Common Core State Standards – ELA Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (

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5 Tips for Teaching STEM With Robots

Vivify Stem

5 Tips for Teaching STEM With Robots Guest Post by Sphero Team March 3, 2023 Robots are not quite living up to the promises of science fiction movies, but they are still doing some pretty amazing things in our everyday lives, especially in the classroom. With programmable robots like Sphero, you can introduce students to the world of robotics in a fun and engaging way while they learn valuable STEM subjects and important skills.

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If Climate Change Education Matters, Why Don’t All Teachers Teach It?

ED Week

Climate change education in schools is sporadic and limited, despite student interest and the urgency of the issue as temperatures rise and weather patterns become more severe.

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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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Think you're good at math? Study shows it may be because you had equitable math teachers

K-12 Education News

A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone in the class equitably, especially in racially diverse schools. While the relationship between teacher equity and math identity was evident across races, there was an interesting exception. Black students, in general, had strong math identities, regardless of their teacher's actions.

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8 Ways to Promote Creativity and Collaboration

Defined Learning

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Electric Eels

STEMe

Houston, TX Thank you, my loving readers. This is my 10th blog. As a token of my thank you, I have included some fun activity for all my fellow readers. Read to the end and have some serious electric fun. You know about Eels, right? How many types of eels do you know? Do you know there are about 19 different types of eels identified so far? From the Fresh Water Eels to Deep Sea Large Necked eels or One Jaw Gulpers, there are about 19 wide families, 111 genera, and over 800 species of Eels.

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