Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 11, 2021
This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live ): For regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher, these are yearly reminders. For new readers, these are like body armor in the tech battle.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 15, 2021
For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. On Wednesday, Kahoot expanded its reach even further, launching a product designed specifically for children 2 through 7. And no, it’s not more quizzes. Instead, the Norway-based company—which counts Disney as an investor —revealed a new suite of digital games, called Kahoot!
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Educators Technology
DECEMBER 11, 2021
Wakelet is a digital curation tool that allows you to save, organize, and share digital resources. Wakelet's collaborative features makes it a tool with huge educational potential for teachers and.read more.
Cool Cat Teacher
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Acceleration Research with Dr. Douglas Fisher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Acceleration research can teach us how to accelerate learning. Dr. Douglas Fisher, co-author of the best-selling book Rebound, Grades K-12: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools.
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
DECEMBER 16, 2021
One of my favorite PD sites, EdWeb , recently offered a free webinar (with CE Certificate) on Returning to Rigorous Mathematics. Here’s a preview: As students return to a hopefully more typical school year, learning is likely to be anything but typical. Student and teacher experiences over the past 18 months have varied greatly and classrooms are filled with students representing a wider range of learning needs than ever before.
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Educators Technology
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Quizizz is a game-based learning tool that you can use to engage students in deep and meaningful learning experiences. It allows you to create both teacher-paced and student-paced quizzes and.read more.
Cool Cat Teacher
DECEMBER 15, 2021
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Defined Learning is a fantastic way to bring project-based learning to every grade level and subject area. Some teachers (and students) are great at coming up with meaningful project ideas that align with standards and learning objectives. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject.
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Engaging children in math learning is a problem that continues relentlessly, year after year. We don’t seem to know how to fix the dropping math scores (and reading but that’s for another article). We can’t even blame it on COVID! If you’d like to understand this trend more, check out Education Week ‘s article: Young Adolescents’ Scores Trended to Historic Lows on National Tests.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Getting through the college application process requires perseverance. During a pandemic, tackling that mound of paperwork takes extra fortitude. So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming.
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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.
Educators Technology
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Epic is a reading platform for students 12 and under. It offers a growing library of books, audiobooks, and learning videos to help kids become stronger readers. As a teacher, you can create your.read more.
Robot Lab
DECEMBER 17, 2021
By Lisa O’Masta, President, Learning A-Z. Lessons learned over the course of the pandemic have highlighted ways that schools and districts can best support teachers and students.
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Need a few websites to fill in free minutes? Here are Holiday websites that will keep students busy while teaching them: 12 Days of Christmas. Christmas Celebrations Across the World (video). Christmas puzzles and games. Christmas—history—fun video. Christmas Traditions Around the World (video). Gift Hunt –updated version of 12 Days of Christmas–just as much fun.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 17, 2021
At the start of what would soon be known around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders in the higher education industry began to fear the worst. Within days, colleges and universities around the nation announced their respective continuity-of-service plans to provide instruction and student support remotely. Using an array of digital communication technologies, messaging platforms and learning management systems, institutions were able to continue operations and maintain their student marke
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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!
Defined Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2021
2021 has been another challenging year for educators, but through those challenges, inspiration, and dedication prevailed. Below are the top ten most inspiring and educational articles that were written on Project-Based Learning (PBL) and STEM education this year. Topics range from PBL best practices to social-emotional learning, and equity in STEM education.
Box Light
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Last month, we talked about the status of all the COVID-19 funding and how it has progressed. The situation for many of the states in their effort to obligate funding under all the ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) and GEER (Governor’s Emergency Education Relief) I, II, and III are ongoing. To see the progress of funding allotments and progress by state, district, and for Higher Education, click here: U.S.
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 13, 2021
DialMyCalls (an AATT sponsor) has a special Christmas offer for kids: Free Santa Calls To Your Family This Christmas. This Christmas we have a great gift for everyone! Whether you’re an existing DialMyCalls user or not, you can take advantage of our completely free phone call from Santa. Imagine the look on your child’s face when they receive a personalized phone call from Santa with his or her name on it!
ED Surge
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Space. It’s the final frontier, but it also defines the shifts in my life as a result of the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, I spent my days in a flurry of activity, scrambling to get things done, rarely, if ever, taking time to do things I enjoyed. I was constantly drumming up opportunities to do more, to be more, to offer greater benefit. The work I do matters to people—it impacts kids, it supports teachers.
Talk STEM
DECEMBER 13, 2021
As we enter the holiday season, we are sure that we are all extremely busy. At talkSTEM, we have been extremely busy for the past few months, and wanted to take the time to thank our subscribers and also give you a quick update on some important highlights here at talkSTEM! Despite the challenging nature of 2021 that we all have faced, we are grateful for our partnerships that have allowed us to grow impact and continue to work on our mission of empowering children from all income levels, ethnic
Box Light
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Cardiff, Wales, U.K.) is “committed to ensuring that every student fulfills their potential to make outstanding graduate-level contributions to their own and future generations.” To support modern learning and teaching, the university decided to equip their teaching spaces with interactive technology to ensure instructors and students had what they needed to stay actively engaged.
EiE Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Here at EiE ® , we are honored to be a part of such an amazing community of educators and experts who have inspired students —and us all year long. As a thank you for your creativity, perseverance, and commitment during this challenging year, we’ve created this collection of fun, holiday-themed activities and videos to help you keep STEM learning in your hearts and classrooms this holiday season.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Low morale of professors and college leaders is turning out to be one of the biggest issues in higher ed this year. Just look at the “most read” list here at EdSurge over the past few months, and you’ll notice that the top headlines involve demoralization and burnout. And social-media chatter about these articles—and similar stories in other publications—shows an increasing sense of being fed up by working conditions on the nation’s campuses nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thimble
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Can’t Find Someone Willing to Champion Your STEM Club? A STEM Club is only sustainable with a reliable captain at the helm. Thanks Captain Obvious. … The post Staffing Your STEM Club appeared first on Thimble Online STEM Classes.
Defined Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2021
In this five-part series, I'll be sharing best practices and advice from educators that I interview in my new weekly fifteen-minute online Bam! Radio Podcast; Practical PBL Strategies.
STEM Education Guide
DECEMBER 17, 2021
With so many STEM and STEAM subscription boxes out there, my kids were thrilled to check out the Green Kid Crafts STEM subscription. I’m happy to say Green Kid Crafts stands out as one of the best! In this hands-on review, we put Green Kid Crafts through the test. I’ll compare what makes them different from other STEM boxes like KiwiCo and Groovy Lab in a Box.
STEM Education Shopping
DECEMBER 16, 2021
STEM education mainly teaches children more concepts than science and mathematics. Children learning using the real world application help develop a variety of skill set, along with creativity and 21st century skills. The 21st century skills include media and technology knowledge, productivity and social skills, communication, flexibility and initiative.
Career in STEM
DECEMBER 15, 2021
It’s become sort of a mantra in this day and age: if you don’t know what to major in, go into computer science. Don’t get me wrong – it’s great advice! Our world relies so much on technology that we need techies to keep things running. But in a few years when you’re a fresh-faced college graduate, it might be hard to know just what kind of jobs you can do with your degree.
Scientix
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Giving a presentation comes naturally to some people. They just appear to be comfortable with it and it seems that they don’t even have to put any effort into keeping their students mesmerized and interested throughout their entire lecture. If you feel your presentations don’t come near enough to this level of mastery, here are five ideas to help you advance and keep your class impressed and inspired while you’re on that stage, getting your message across to them in full.
STEM Education Works
DECEMBER 15, 2021
‘Tis the season! Thanksgiving has given us time to reflect all that we have to be thankful for, not only from November, but the whole year. Then coming off that break and rolling into another, we have a lot of free time to play with STEM equipment. This month we are sharing our appreciation and celebrating the holiday season too! . Our Latest Blog Posts.
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