Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Here is a good discussion on the pros and cons of Turnitin as well as options available, from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: Reliable Turnitin Alternatives for K12. It was never a mystery that teachers get so many papers to check before a specific deadline that they’re often ready to drop everything and fall asleep at the end of the

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Futurum

MAY 25, 2022

Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. Published: May 25, 2022. Farmers often use fungicides to protect their crops from fungal diseases. However, there are worries that these fungicides can damage the environment if they leak into water sources and may even build antimicrobial resistance against treatments for human diseases.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 25, 2022

In February, I was invited to give a lecture at the University of Washington’s Allen School. I had a great day visiting there, even though it was all on Zoom. My talk is available on YouTube: I got a chance to talk to Jeff Heer and Amy Ko before my visit. The U-W CSE department had been thinking about making a push into computing education research.

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Middle Web

MAY 25, 2022

Literacy mavens Brenda Krupp, Lynne Dorfman and Aileen Hower are more than excited about the possibilities of summer reading this year. Check out their many ideas for choice-based summer programs, including book swaps, virtual author visits, online clubs and more. Plan now! The post Help Students Become Super Summer Readers first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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

MAY 25, 2022

In this lesson Meredith Williams, Boxlight MimioMaster, shares how she used the MyStemKits Density Cubes Kit to help her students demonstrate understanding of the concept of density.

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Stem Geek

MAY 25, 2022

Summertime ahoy! Summer planning is about to be real for most parents. The hectic periods spent scouring the internet for fun summer activities to fill up each day are here. With the kids staying in. The post Summer Math Activities – 10 Engaging & Cheap Projects (That Don’t Scream ‘School’) appeared first on STEM Geek.

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Online Math for All

MAY 25, 2022

Relating SI and Imperial Units Worksheet

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ED Surge

MAY 25, 2022

Schools have changed. Learning has changed. The personal lives of everyone involved in those systems have changed. And they’re still changing, after two years of a brutal pandemic, untold economic hardship, political polarization and social unrest. No one understands this more intimately than the teachers, school leaders and students who live through it every day.

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Online Math for All

MAY 25, 2022

Relating SI and Imperial Units

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Online Math for All

MAY 25, 2022

Worksheet on Arithmetic Mean

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Online Math for All

MAY 25, 2022

SAT Math Questions on Arithmetic Mean

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