Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

When you ask kids what they’re afraid of, math is not a common answer. They’re thinking about spiders or monsters or that creepy feeling you can sometimes get when you’re alone. However, the fear of math is very real. According to Public School Review , the national average for math proficiency in public schools is 47 percent. This leaves plenty of room for improvement, including figuring out how to properly address the challenges of math that can lead to anxiety.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2023

Grade Level: 5th (or whichever grade you are teaching arrays) Background: None. This is an intro to MS Excel or spreadsheets Vocabulary: Excel, cell, rows, columns, paint bucket, borders, arrays, resize, formulas Time: About 30 minutes Steps: Open Excel or your preferred spreadsheet program. Review the basics–how to identify a cell (where the column and row intersect), what’s on the toolbars, especially where the paint bucket and border tools are found Resize the cells so they are sq

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Middle Web

JANUARY 22, 2023

Like much of the current K-12 universe, Sarah Cooper is both excited and concerned about the impact of ChatGPT’s disruptive technology. Recently she checked in with her 8th graders for insights into how they might use it and how they think AI may impact their lives in the future. The post 8th Grade Insights Into ChatGPT and the Future first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Stem Activities for Kids

JANUARY 22, 2023

This post contains ideas for celebrating the 100th Day of School for lower elementary students. If you are looking for ideas for upper elementary students, read this post about the 100th Day of School STEM. 100 days is a BIG DEAL for little kids! Particularly in Kindergarten, the changes that can happen over 100 days are no less than monumental. Why not celebrate how far your students have come with hands-on STEM activities?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. In them, an animated avatar made to look like the 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace taught the basics of the Python programming language.

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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2023

I spent some time looking at the Rhode Island Computer Museum web page today. A lot of interesting stuff. Some great information under the Education and Activities page. If you teach the history of computers this is a great resource with text and pictures. The Collections gallery has a huge collection of images and descriptions of items they have as well.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

I’ve posted this before but it’s worth repeating. Then share it with friends, colleagues, parents, even older students. When I teach professional development classes, by far the topic that surprises teachers the most is the legal use of online images. And they’re not alone. On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, au

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All About STEM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Catalyst Magazine is a digital science journal for young people aged 14-19 and their educators. It brings STEM subjects to life with insights into cutting-edge scientific research and industry R&D exploring the practical applications of complex science in the world around us. Discover new scientific research and developments and read real life STEM stories, career journeys.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I love educational technology. When technologies were first available online, I was an early adopter, and often got brutally criticized by administrators and colleagues in my K-6 settings for having students use the internet for research, use web tools, create webpages in wikis, and work virtually with schools in other states and countries (for example, see their work from 2008 at [link] ).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days.

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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2023

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra That doesn't mean people don't try. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have a lot of people predicting what jobs are an are not likely to be replaced by computers. Technology is challenging the ideas about what jobs can and cannot be replaced by technology. Doug Peterson, who shares a lot of interesting articles, recently share this one predicting that leaders will not be replace.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

Whether fresh out of college or entering teaching as your second career, these tips will guide you in making the most of your first year of teaching and help you carve out your place in your new career. We polled some of our teachers and former teachers on what important information they would share with those just beginning their careers. Here are the top 8 tips that every first-year teacher should know.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

I published this several years ago, but with the current dissatisfaction of many parents with traditional education, it’s worth revisiting. Purpose Driven Learning (or PDL) is a concept coined by Michael Matera and Adam Moreno to summarize the philosophy that each learner’s inner strengths can be unlocked by focusing with purpose and drive.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Event Date: 7 February The Big Assembly returns on the 7th of February 2023 during National Apprenticeship Week! The Big Assembly is an interactive live digital broadcast that enables students and teachers to engage in conversation about exciting career opportunities, national events, and more. The live broadcast is approximately 30 minutes long with a mix of short inspirational films and.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. It’s commonsense, but it’s also reinforced by hundreds of studies ( An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle ).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The ratio of students to school counselors in the United States continues to narrow, with data released this month showing it has reached the lowest point since 1986, the year the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) began tracking student-to-counselor ratios. The new data reflects the 2021-2022 school year and reveals that, nationwide, there was an average of 408 students for every one school counselor.

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CTE Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

One of our most popular courses is our Web and Computer Animation course. Today we are highlighting Cathy C., who teaches the course at Pennsbury High School West in Fairless Hills, PA. In her first year teaching this course she has already seen the impact it has on students in engaging them and getting them to think about possible career pathways. Cathy’s students are the first in Pennsylvania to earn Web Animator certifications from Web Professionals Global.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

Whether fresh out of college or entering teaching as your second career, these tips will guide you in making the most of your first year of teaching and help you carve out your place in your new career. We polled some of our teachers and former teachers on what important information they would share with those just beginning their careers. Here are the top 8 tips that every first-year teacher should know.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2023

Do your first graders love vehicles? Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about them: Build a car–abcya Design your very own vehicle with ABCya’s Create a Car! Choose from cars, trucks, buses, and even construction vehicles. Customize your vehicle with different wheels, engines, and more. Enjoy the ride! Vehicle Puzzle –click and drag puzzle pieces into place for this picture Freight Train Cars –video about all the cars in the freight train from Railway

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All About STEM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Your students can create an unforgettable, accessible, exciting STEAM experience with the NEW CREST UNBOXED Creations project! UNBOXED was a celebration of creativity across all four nations of the UK. “UNBOXED was made up of 10 projects dedicated to science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), aiming to inspire new ways of thinking, creative collaborations and discovering new.

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Northeastern University

JANUARY 27, 2023

Welcome to Newsletter 43! >> Click Here for this week’s Newslette r << Welcome back! For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030. In our newsletter you will be introduced to a STEM topic and find a related-activity to work on during the week (please share your results with us!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

At Indian Prairie School District (IPSD), located just west of Chicago, one of the crucial alignment points—a “north star,” if you will—for the district’s 35 schools is its Portrait of a Graduate profile. Widely adopted by school districts across the country, Portrait of a Graduate outlines the interdisciplinary skills that a district believes its students should embody and exemplify by high school graduation.

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CTE Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

Doug Devine is a career and technical education teacher at North High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We caught up with Doug when one of his students, Lindsey, became the first high school student in Wisconsin to receive the Web Animator industry certification from Web Professionals Global. We asked Doug if we could do a quick article on him, and he thought it would be nice to include Lindsey’s point of view.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Games are highly motivating for everyone, including students. But you don’t have to turn your classroom into a game show or a video arcade to reap the benefits. Learn about the benefits of using both Game-based learning and Gamification in your classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some students just don’t like writing. A page filled with black-and-white words intimidates–or bores!–them making it almost impossible to explain their ideas for an assignment. That is one reason graphic novels are becoming so popular–telling a story or thoughts with a blend of images and words The drawback is finding a photograph that fits the assignment requirements in a legal, copyright-appropriate manner.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calling all primary teachers! If you haven’t explored space with Paxi the Alien, take a look at ESERO UK’s animations and whisk your class away on some magnificent missions! Paxi, the alien explorer and European Space Agency mascot, explores the Solar System, investigates comets and looks at how scientists aim to find out if there is evidence of life on Mars.

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Northeastern University

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last Friday on January 20th, the Center for STEM Education welcomed Milton Highschool to Northeastern University. The goal was to exposure these high school students to the college experience at Northeastern, all while learning more about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The day started off with an exciting engineering project, where groups of students competed to create the tallest free-standing spaghetti tower that could support a marshmallow on top.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment. The students had enrolled in the latest effort by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, the online tool he started by making videos on YouTube that is now used by hundreds of districts in the U.S. Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities.

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CTE Learning

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teachers love to see students excel. In secondary education, they always are looking for ways to get their students to engage in class. This has become especially true in the post-COVID environment where getting students to re-engage has become more difficult. Oftentimes students feel that there is little relevance for them at school. Through exposure to various career pathways, students learn about new opportunities that they didn’t even know existed.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

Professional development for STEM teachers is a tall order these days. As the pace of scientific advancement has accelerated, keeping up with content so you can teach relevant, up-to-date material has become an ongoing challenge. Even the periodic table of elements has been updated in recent years! And you also need to keep up with technological instructional trends, so you can competently use tech—both in the classroom and for your own STEM professional development.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2023

This project (#70 in the collection of #110) hides a spreadsheet’s power behind a template you create and students fill out at home. If they’re older and more familiar with spreadsheets, involve them in creating the template. If the lesson plans are blurry, click on them for a full size alternative. Note: The example uses Excel, but it works just as well with Google Spreadsheets.

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