Tue.Oct 11, 2022

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Lego’s Parent Company Acquires Edtech Firm BrainPOP

ED Surge

The company that owns Lego is diving headlong into K-12 education’s switch to digital. Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired the video animation company BrainPOP for $875 million. The deal was announced Tuesday. Fueled by the digital transformation of K-12 learning, the acquisition is expected to be only the first of many for Kirkbi A/S.

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3 Ideas for Promoting Collaboration in the Classroom

Defined Learning

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way”. - Alan Menken. Preparing our students for the future means that we need to continue to learn more about the types of jobs that are in demand and create opportunities for our students to develop a variety of skills that are transferable to many types of work.

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Google Discreetly Acquires Edtech Analytics Company BrightBytes

ED Surge

Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company. The tech giant confirmed, in an email to EdSurge, that it's picked up BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition does not appear to have been publicly announced. And Google declined to provide any details, including when the sale had taken place. But an email about the deal sent by Google to a school district in early May, obtained by EdSurge, cites May 17th as the expected date of the transaction.

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3 Amazing Halloween Arduino Projects for Teens

Stem Geek

If your family is anything like mine, your teens are probably sick and tired of having yet another “vanilla” Halloween. Scattering skeleton props all over your front yard. Or covering fake tombstones with fake (albeit. The post 3 Amazing Halloween Arduino Projects for Teens appeared first on STEM Geek.

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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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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 1)

ED Surge

A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. Don Rawitsch, with the help of two fellow student teachers, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, created a game in which students took on the role of a wagon leader making the harrowing journey from Missouri to Oregon in the mid-1800s.

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Powerful Resources for Recognizing Red Ribbon Week

STEM Discovery Education

Find the right resources to spread awareness and empower all students for Red Ribbon Week! Observed annually every October 23-31 to honor the memory of Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, Red Ribbon Week is a time to reinforce alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, recognizing the harmful effects of substance abuse and promoting the importance of making healthy and safe decisions.

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Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace Technology

CoderZ

Real-Life Applications. Teachers also use CoderZ in the Introduction to Robotics elective, where they provide a brief overview of robotics and use a lot of real-life examples (e.g., the Atlas, Milo and Hercules robots). The instructor has also incorporated the Amazon Robotics Challenge in the curriculum, where students understand the connections between the Hercules robot they learned about and the one being used in the online simulation.

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3 Amazing Soap Science Fair Projects (for Middle & High Schoolers)

Stem Geek

No, I’m not talking about soap operas! I’m talking about a much less melodramatic kind of soap: the one living in your bathroom. Soaps, in general, have a bubbly character, they are fun to use, The post 3 Amazing Soap Science Fair Projects (for Middle & High Schoolers) appeared first on STEM Geek.

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CoderZ Case Study. The Community Bots

CoderZ

Nonprofit Uses CoderZ to Bring Robotics to Girls Around the World. A provider of STEM-robotics equipment and training for young women and teachers in underserved communities around the globe, the Community Bots is the brainchild of Jack Cooley, a science teacher with a 25-year success record across grades 3-12. Currently teaching third and seventh grades at the Allen-Stevenson School, Cooley previously started a robotics program for the all-girls the Chapin School in New York City.

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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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The Science of Soap Making: Learn About Chemistry of Bubbles (+ Saponification)

Stem Geek

Soap is not just about personal care. Or washing your hands for 20 seconds. (Remember that?) Soap is also and primarily about chemistry, and LOTS of it. This article will help you understand the science. The post The Science of Soap Making: Learn About Chemistry of Bubbles (+ Saponification) appeared first on STEM Geek.

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Zombie ParasitesMeet The Parasites That Turn Their Hosts Into Zombies

Smore Science

Table of Contents. What are parasites? There are a whole range of organisms that live as parasites. This means that they live off another organism. We are familiar with some common parasites. These include ticks, fleas, and worms in our guts. There are some parasites that control the brain of their host. They turn that host into a so-called “zombie.”.

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3 Ways to Make Soap at Home (Great Middle & High Schooler Activity!)

Stem Geek

Whether you want to do some hands-on chemistry or merely DIY your self-care products, you’ve come to the right place. This article will lay out 3 carefully planned activities that will result in, well, nice. The post 3 Ways to Make Soap at Home (Great Middle & High Schooler Activity!) appeared first on STEM Geek.

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STEM Around Us: Partial sunglasses – Photochromic lenses

Smore Science

Sun through spectacles, Credit: Wikimedia/Thuwaraga vilvanathan. One of the most harmful components of sunlight is its UV rays. Apart from multiple skin diseases, UV rays can also cause serious damage to our eyes. Chronic exposure is known to decrease vision and induce cataracts. Reducing UV ray exposure is very important. One can do just that with the help of photochromic lenses.

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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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10 Best STEM Kits for Teens

STEM Sport

Choosing gifts for high school kids can be a difficult task. Especially educational gifts teens can interact with to make choices on which summer camps to attend, college degrees to pursue, or future careers to aspire towards. At the high school level, teenagers are already starting to decide what courses they enjoy and what subjects they want to learn more about in the future.

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Multiplying Fractions

Basic-Mathematics

Multiplying fractions and write the product in simplest form is the goal of this lesson.

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Oct 11, Product Rule of Derivative

Online Math for All

Product Rule of Derivative - Concept - Examples

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A Year After the Online Tutoring Industry Was Roiled, Teachers Are Still Searching for Stability

ED Surge

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Users can scroll through more than 230 “regions” across six continents, including Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Montenegro and Myanmar. It’s a marked change from the education company’s origins, which, up until about a year ago, catered almost exclusively to students in mainland China, offering one-on-one English classes with tutors from the U.S. an

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Oct 11, Product Rule of Derivative Worksheet

Online Math for All

Product Rule of Derivative Worksheet

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A Byte of Computer Science: Interview with Geoffrey Lentner

STEM Education Works

Hello everyone, Today we have a very special guest for this week’s blog! Geoffrey Lentner is a longtime friend of mine and fellow Purdue University graduate; we actually first met as physics undergrads at Purdue working in an astrophysics lab as research assistants! Since then, we’ve shared many of the same experiences both in terms of our educational and career paths and, of course, our love for physics (especially astrophysics).

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Cytoskeleton: The skeleton of the cell PLUS MORE

MooMoo Math & Science

If you take a look at most drawings of a cell and the cell organelles a major component is usually missing. The cytoskeleton. As the name implies it is the skeleton of the cell. The cytoskeleton of a cell is a network of filaments running throughout the cell. The cytoskeleton has several different jobs in the cell It helps provide support much like your skeleton provides support.

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Best Gamification Tools for Teachers

Educators Technology

Gamification is a cross-disciplinary concept that has been adopted in several sectors including marketing, healthcare, professional development trainings, politics, among others. By definition, gamification is "the incorporation of game elements into non-game settings" 1. In education, the concept of gamification has especially gained traction during the last decade or so due mainly to the advance of web technologies and mobile applications.