May, 2020

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169 Tech Tip #51 Find Public Domain Images

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: Find Public Domain Images. Category: Images.

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Learn Science at Home- 8 Great YouTube Channels for Young Learners

Educators Technology

In the spirit of providing teachers and patents with educational resources to help them enhance their students and kids' distance learning, today's post features a carefully selected collection of.read more.

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Virtual Bitmoji Classroom Help

The Innovative Educator

Have you created your Bitmoji classroom yet? If you have not and you want to, then you're in the right place. Here you'll find an article and two videos that outline the process. I'll also share how you can check out Bitmoji classrooms on social media. And, finally, I'll share a slideshow featuring virtual Bitmoji classrooms that you can check out for inspiration, visit directly, and even copy and paste your favorite elements into your own classroom.

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Newlearn.io

Technology Tidbits

*Newlearn.io will send out two gift cards to the teachers that share their tips for "remote learning" during this COVID-19 crisis, during May 13th-19th. Winners will be announced on May 22nd. Newlearn.io is a excellent new social network for finding educational resources. Newlearn.io curates their resources by common core standards and allows users to share (download/upload) files such as: videos, documents, PDFs, and more.

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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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My experience as a Ph.D. visiting scholar at the University of Dundee

MII-STEM

Vipavadee Khwaengmek from Kasetsart University, Thailand, shares her experience as a Ph.D. visiting scholar at the University of Dundee. The post My experience as a Ph.D. visiting scholar at the University of Dundee first appeared on MII-STEM.

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Music for Armed Forces Day 2020

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Many Americans celebrate Armed Forces Day annually on the third Saturday of May. It is a day to pay tribute to men and women who serve the United States’ armed forces. Armed Forces Day is also part of Armed Forces Week, which begins on the second Saturday of May.

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Google Docs Templates to Help Students Write Letters, Essays, Book Reports, and Resumes

Educators Technology

After sharing presentation templates, today's post features Google Docs templates that teachers and students can use for a wide variety of purposes. The purpose is to empower you with resources that.read more.

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Foster Connection and Interaction in Webinars

The Innovative Educator

Some new to conducting online webinars may feel a void in this environment. Unlike teaching face-to-face you can’t read the room the same way. It may be difficult to pick up on non-verbal cues. You can’t walk over to someone and look over their shoulder. Sometimes it just feels like you are talking to an empty room. The ideas below are designed to help fill the void, establish connections, and facilitate interactivity.

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Curiscope

Technology Tidbits

Curiscope is a wonderful company that makes augmented reality posters and tee's for education. These are great learning tools for the classroom that shows student's different aspects of Science through augmented reality. Below is a brief demo of an AR poster. I highly recommend checking out Curiscope by clicking here !!!

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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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New summit, plan and more building STEM network in Virginia

STEMx

In July 2019, the governor of Virginia established a STEM Education Commission for the state, with the goal of eventually launching a statewide STEM network. Having such a network, proponents said, would provide a united vision for Virginia’s many STEM programs, which had been developed in isolation. A network could aid communication and sharing of best practices to use and pitfalls to avoid, while setting goals and common terms.

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Get Students Started in Cybersecurity with CyberCAP

Start-Engineering

Eric Iversen. Tumultuous times In cybersecurity education as everywhere else, nobody is having the summer they wanted this year. Summer camps have been postponed or, at best, contorted , conferences cancelled or moved online , and planning for the fall is a mess. With diminished or even no ability to gather in person, educators are scrambling to develop and deliver learning content via virtual, remote, or otherwise constrained contact with students.

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. You collected a long list of highly-recommended resources that you can’t wait to try in your classroom. But that list could take hours to preview.

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Your Ultimate STEM Summer Reading List

STEM Supplies

I love when I get the chance to sit down to read a good book. It doesn’t happen as often as I like, but when it does, I’m always drawn to science fiction. Here are books that are a must for your teacher summer reading list paired with STEM classroom activities that you can try next school year! 1. The Martian by Andy Weir. I bet you’re not surprised to see this one on the list!

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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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Reasonable strategies for the future of schooling in unreasonable times

The Innovative Educator

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) put out hard to swallow guidance about the reopening of schools. Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools. Reasonable strategies The Coronavirus can forever change how we do school. In some ways, for the better. Here’s how. Central / District Staff: All non-school staff should work remotely through the next school year.

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15 Online Summer Learning Opportunities

Technology Tidbits

It's that time of year again for my annual list of online summer learning opportunities or programs. This is especially prevalent w/ the COVID-19 " double whammy " that is happening w/ school closures around the world, economic downturn, and high possibility of summer learning loss for students. These programs help fill a gap that sometimes is lacking over the summer months and best of all can be done at the comfort from home.

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78: Adding Flipgrid to Your Distance Learning Strategy

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

78: Adding Flipgrid to Your Distance Learning Strategy Flipgrid is a FREE video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with their students and is a powerful platform for which to engage kids and offer alternative options for showing what you know. Today I talk all about Flipgrid and the power behind the video. Links Mentioned in the Show: Flipgrid 77: End of the Year Distance Learning Activities Would You Rather Digital Game Digital Exit Tickets for ELA Flipgrid is a

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What is Technology?-in recognition of World Telecommunications Day, Vol.6 #16

Bright and Smart

Our Posterity = Our Children. Enhancing our children's S. T. E. A. M education is imperative to their success and will help them become innovators of the future. S.T.E.A.M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Hands-on activities helps us to cognitively and visually see how things work. By creating things with our hands, we can understand and appreciate the importance of its existence.

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College or Career? Check out These

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Choosing what to do after high school used to be simple for those who had good grades: Apply to college. Now, not so much. For one thing, college has become increasingly more expensive and students are asking whether there’s enough value in what they get to offset the costs. Another worry: Colleges sometimes seem dangerous hotbeds of protests and riots.

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We Are United In Accessibility | Celebrating GAAD, May 21, 2020

Magic EdTech

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) The target audience of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While many organizations like us may be interested in the topic of making digital learning accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start.

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An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools

The Innovative Educator

Students sit behind partition boards to prevent infection. Photograph: David Chang/EPA The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on reopening of schools will require innovative thinking to re-imagine how schools may open in the upcoming school year and beyond. The key will be agility and flexibility. That's because we've learned that we don't quite know what's ahead of us.

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5 STEM Must-Haves for New STEM Teachers: Elementary Edition

STEM Supplies

There are so many places that teachers can gather information. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have made professional learning networks so accessible that teachers can connect in real-time from all over the world. I often see posts in these groups like “I’m a new teacher and don’t know where to start – please help!” or “I have a certain budget to spend on STEM but am not sure what I need”.

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Easily make screen recordings (with or without your face)

The Tech Savvy Science Teacher

Screencastify if one of my favorite screen recording tools. A few quick notes before I talk about it more; you have to be using the Google Chrome browser, have a Google account and the free version has a recording limit of five minutes. To start you'll visit the Screencastify web page and install the extension. Once you have installed the extension, you will see pink arrow that represents Screencastify.

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77: End of the Year Distance Learning Activities to Excite Your Students

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

77: End of the Year Distance Learning Activities to Excite Your Students The end of the year in the classroom can be stressful. Add distance learning to the mix and watch out! Today we talk all about ways to keep your students engaged, learning, and coming back for more. I hope you will join me. The end of the year in the classroom can be stressful.

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169 Tech Tip #92 Auto-fill for Internet Addresses

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: How to Auto-fill Internet Addresses.

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Army consortium for STEM seeks eCYBERMISSION promotion partner

STEMx

The. Army Education Outreach Program. , or AEOP, is the Army’s platform for advancing STEM education and literacy. AEOP includes a portfolio experiences, internships and competitions. AEOP, through its cooperative agreement with. Battelle. , has opened a formal Request for Proposals. Battelle will accept proposals from businesses, organizations and associations with a history of operating initiatives focused on STEM education competitions with a proven track-record of delivering measurable resul

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Which Video Conferencing Platform is Right for Your School?

The Innovative Educator

Graduations, celebrations, and dances, oh my! When it comes to planning virtual events for your school, you need to select the right video conferencing platform. But how do you know which one is right for your needs? Tech educator Clay Smith and I needed to answer this question for the schools we support so we came up with a handy dandy comparison chart of video conferencing platforms.

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3 STEM Must-Haves for New STEM Teachers: Secondary Edition

STEM Supplies

There are so many places that teachers can gather information. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have made professional learning networks so accessible that teachers can connect in real-time from all over the world. I often see posts in these groups like “I’m a new teacher and don’t know where to start – please help!” or “I have a certain budget to spend on STEM but am not sure what I need.”.

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An Attempt to Demystify the European Accessibility Directives

Magic EdTech

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn/unlearn and adapt to evolving surroundings. Think, the above quote is more relevant in today’s time than ever before. Educators across the world are continuously working tirelessly to spread the only positive thing –learning and somehow blunting the spread of ghoulish virus globally.