Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 4, 2021
It’s America’s birthday and I’m celebrating. My Army Staff Sergeant son is still in Japan–Okinawa. My Navy LT CDR daughter’s still in the DC area in the next of her long line of Navy jobs. They do not leave her in one position for long! I thank both of them and all those soldiers who fought for America’s uncertain future so long ago.
K-12 Education News
JULY 9, 2021
Recess quality, not just the amount of time spent away from the classroom, plays a major role in whether children experience the full physical, mental and social-emotional benefits of recess, a new study has found.
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Jay Flores
JULY 6, 2021
I need to start with a big thank you to all who have been a part of my development throughout my STEM journey. Invent the Change LLC would not be possible without each and every one of you! Leaving my dream job in the middle of a pandemic to start my dream business was a difficult decision to make but has turned out to be a wonderful game changing decision for myself, my family, and the communities that I serve.
Vivify Stem
JULY 6, 2021
10 Simple Summer STEM Activities Are you looking for simple STEM activities for the summer months? Perhaps you are running a summer STEM camp or have bored kids at home. Look no further for some of our favorite summer STEM activities that will get your kids building, exploring, and learning! Read below for ten ideas for simple summer STEM activities!
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 8, 2021
Studying used to mean memorizing–flash cards, rote drills, worksheets, repeat. Now, we know a lot more about learning. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributing writers has some great suggestions on the secrets to successful studying. Revealed: The Secrets to Studying Success. When it comes to studying, there’s no such thing as a one size fits all approach.
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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
JULY 5, 2021
OTT 134 What is Makerspace and Why Does It Matter in the Classroom? Many teachers are looking for ways to bring more hands-on critical thinking into their classrooms, especially after a lot of screen time in the past year with COVID. I talked all about the 3 crucial reasons to create a makerspace in your classroom post-pandemic on episode 133. Most Makerspaces, which are spaces that kids can investigate, tinker, discover, create, and build.
STEM Minds
JULY 5, 2021
STEM Minds is honoured to have been featured in our local newspaper, The Auroran! The front-page article features award recipients from the Aurora Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, in which STEM Minds was awarded the winner for the Pivot Category. We are so thankful for the support of our community and are honoured to be featured alongside other local businesses that rose to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 5, 2021
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: Reset Default Font. Category: MS Office, Google Apps, Classroom Management, Writing.
The Science Penguin
JULY 4, 2021
Because Digital Inquiry for 4th and 5th were so popular, we are bringing you Digital Inquiry Jr. (DIJR), designed for 3rd grade. There are 24 ready-to-use digital activities. Use the activities whole group to lead your science study, assign to groups, or allow students to complete independently! Here’s a peek at one activity. Activity Information. Each activity includes 5 slides: ASK: Students read the question.
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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.
Jacobs Physics
JULY 8, 2021
I've talked extensively in the previous three posts about using a referee's mindset while grading. Make the best call you can, get the ball in play, and move the game along. Whether a tight judgement call goes one way or the other isn't something a referee can dwell on. But, yes, sometimes referees do make egregious errors. And that's why instant replay, or the Video Assistant Referee, exists.
Computing Education Research Blog
JULY 5, 2021
A 2018 paper by Ronny Scherer et al. “ The cognitive benefits of learning computer programming: A meta-analysis of transfer effects ” was making the rounds on Twitter. They looked at 105 studies and found that there was a measurable amount of transfer between programming and situations requiring mathematical skills and spatial reasoning. But here’s the critical bit — it may not be casual.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 9, 2021
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakehol
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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!
Jacobs Physics
JULY 4, 2021
In the first post of this series, I encouraged teachers to adapt an umpire's mindset when grading your students' work. Don't think about why a student wrote what they did, don't think about what the student might have meant. just read with they did write, score it, and move on. Next, I gave advice about how to prevent complaints on your test grading, by doing corrections before students see their original work.
Educators Technology
JULY 5, 2021
Over the last few years animated GIFs resurged into the visual scene of the virtual world playing prominent roles in the communication structure of the social web. Animated GIFs gained in.read more.
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