Accelerate Learning
JANUARY 16, 2024
STEM, representing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is more than an educational buzzword; it's a crucial framework in early childhood education, particularly for preparing preschoolers for the transition to kindergarten. It lays a solid, multifaceted foundation that goes beyond traditional learning methods, offering a more enriching educational experience.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 16, 2024
Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career Starting a career is an exhilarating journey, and in today’s tech-driven world, the technology you choose during your school years can be a foundational step toward your professional tech arsenal. Having the right gadgets and tools plays a pivotal role in academic success and setting a strong foundation for your professional life.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2024
At the beginning of her now nearly 30-year career, Leslie M. Gauna was given a warning: Bilingual education wouldn’t be a viable career option in the long term. Yet nowadays the need for Spanish-speaking teachers in the United States is as strong as ever, with districts around the country struggling to hire them fast enough. The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls t
All About STEM
JANUARY 17, 2024
GSK Regional Online Mentoring (Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside & Manchester) STEM Learning are running free online mentoring, funded by GSK, to support disadvantaged students, aged 13-19, who would like to explore their future career options with trained and experienced STEM professionals.
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.
User Generated Education
JANUARY 15, 2024
I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing refers to the use of tangible, embedded microcontroller-based interactive systems that can sense the world around them and/or control outputs such as lights, displays and motors. Assembling the hardware elements of a physical computer and programming it with the desired behavior provides a creative and educational experience.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2024
NEW YORK — Loyal Harmoni Harris travels every day to Bronx Regional High School, where she learns emotional, motor and language skills. Loyal is a bit younger than the other students at the high school — in fact, she’s only 2 years old. That’s because Loyal is part of a unique New York City program called LYFE — Living for the Young Family Through Education.
All About STEM
JANUARY 18, 2024
Have you visited the Apprenticeship Arcade? Amazing Apprenticeships has released a new set of resources for National Apprenticeship Week including two new Rapid Reads, new staffroom posters, a NAW2024 competition and NEW and updated Apprenticeship Arcade games!
Middle Web
JANUARY 16, 2024
As she describes some ways she’s begun to work fun, ethical AI components into major assignments, Sarah Cooper wonders how the nature of learning and teaching will evolve in tandem with the evolution of Large Language Models. How do we best prepare our students for the future? The post 5 Fun, Ethical Uses of AI I’ve Shared with Students first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 18, 2024
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: I teach Spanish and need a quick way to add accents to words. Can you help? A: You can go through the symbols library, but there’s an easier way.
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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.
ED Surge
JANUARY 15, 2024
Definitions of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI The Executive Order defines AI as: “a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.” And Generative AI as: “The term generative AI means the class of AI models that emulate the structure and characteristics of input data in order to generate derived synthetic content.
All About STEM
JANUARY 17, 2024
Your students can learn about animation by designing and making their own! In this CREST project, students can learn about different types of animation, the history of animation and how to create their own animated features. There are so many options including zoetrope animation, flipbooks, stop-motion, claymation and more! Will they channel Aardman, Pixar or Andymation?
Middle Web
JANUARY 15, 2024
If schools are always being "held" accountable, asks leadership coach and veteran principal Matt Renwick, how will students ever learn to "be" accountable? When do they get to make important choices that affect others and themselves? Three shifts can change the paradigm. The post Empowering Kids to Help Make School Decisions first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 19, 2024
If your third grader has to write a report about landforms, try these websites: Continents explained (with humor) Explore the Colorado Geography Games Geography Quiz Game Geologic movies–great and fun Landforms—matching games, etc. Mapping Game Rainforest life—people, etc. Rainforest tree house—virtual game Rainforest—Enchanted Learning Rainforests The Colorado River Virtual tour–undersea If any of these website links don’t work, please click here for an update.
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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!
ED Surge
JANUARY 19, 2024
Last year, the U.S. Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences.
All About STEM
JANUARY 19, 2024
Join the Liverpool City Region Careers Hub Employers Network so we can inspire our future workforce together! Find out about how you can get involved, and how we can help you develop your talent pipeline, support your CSR ambitions, and inspire your employees of the future.
Middle Web
JANUARY 14, 2024
It took Stephanie Farley 21 years to solve the student self-assessment equation. The solution? Teaching students to explain their thinking as they revise and improve. The result was transformational; they gained confidence in their work and were far less anxious about grades. The post The Year I Figured Out Student Self Assessment first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 17, 2024
Implementing Mindfulness Practices in Schools In recent years, mindfulness has gained significant traction, not just in adults’ lives but also in educational settings. Incorporating mindfulness practices in schools has proven beneficial for students’ well-being, emotional regulation, and academic success. Let’s explore why and how mindfulness practices are making their way into classrooms worldwide.
ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2024
My grandparents were migrant farm workers, cherry pickers and hops harvesters. Though both were born in Texas, their Mexican identity and socioeconomic status determined their day-to-day lives, but not their future. I’ve come to realize there is an unspoken pride in our family that is rooted in the Latine experience of the American Dream. My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a pu
All About STEM
JANUARY 16, 2024
You can inspire your future workforce or the next generation of STEM experts by hosting a Research Placement or Experience! All About STEM is your Research Placement and Experience Coordinator for the North West, covering Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
Career in STEM
JANUARY 16, 2024
Many teens graduate from high school and have no idea what careers are out there, so how are you supposed to choose a major? Doctor, lawyer, vet, nurse…forced to make a decision upon high school graduation, many of us end up defaulting to typical careers that may or may not be the best fit for individual interests and personality. These are simply careers that we are familiar with.
Middle Web
JANUARY 17, 2024
After 20+ years of teaching, Dina Strasser has found one thing almost never fails to connect with adolescents: the positive reaction you get when you genuinely compliment a kid on their appearance. Check out the strategy she’s developed to help reap smiles and build rapport. The post 1 Sure Way to Make Your Students Instantly Smile first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Box Light
JANUARY 18, 2024
Name-calling, often seen as harmless teasing, can deeply affect an individual's feelings about themselves and others. While some might say these words are just playful, it's important to understand the impact they can have over time. To wrap up No Name Calling Week , let's explore why it's crucial to raise awareness, be sensitive, and show empathy in our educational settings.
STEM Everyday Podcast
JANUARY 15, 2024
Gareth Campbell is a Bristol based artist and former secondary school science teacher who founded The Museum of Science, the Arts & Interdisciplinary Collaboration (The MoSAIC ) in 2022 to address a problem in the education system that frustrated him. “Science is not seen as a creative subject in schools, even worse my experience as a teacher showed me that our current rigid curriculum fails to show students the beautiful, and essential, connections that exist between disciplines.
STEM Education Works
JANUARY 15, 2024
Superheroes, STEM, and Me Embracing my unabashed nerdiness, my love for Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel, DC, and all things space-related has seamlessly woven itself into my life, especially within the realms of STEM. To be completely honest, I wear my nerdiness like a badge of honor. Recently, someone asked me where my love for STEM originated, and it got me thinking about the cosmic connection between superheroes and my career.
Middle Web
JANUARY 18, 2024
The authors of C.R.A.F.T. Conversations for Teacher Growth offer sustainable practices school leaders can implement immediately to build positive relationships with teachers and help them cultivate expertise. The reflective questions are particularly helpful, writes Tanya Roy. The post Building Bridges That Cultivate Teacher Growth first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Box Light
JANUARY 16, 2024
High schools and vocational institutions are at the forefront of shaping students for the challenges of an increasingly dynamic workforce. The integration of robotics, 3D printing, and interactive displays is no longer just convenient—it's essential. This transforms how students acquire vital life skills and prepares them for a competitive job market.
PCS Edventures
JANUARY 14, 2024
Children’s innate ability for creative problem-solving often leads them to innovative solutions that even adults might overlook. However, fostering their passion for innovation can be challenging unless they first develop a self-perception as inventors. Imagine if every learner dared to pursue their unique questions. What problems would they solve? What groundbreaking discoveries would they make?
Defined Learning
JANUARY 19, 2024
Principals play a crucial role in supporting and fostering STEM and project-based learning among teachers. This article offers five ways principals can support teachers to inspire innovation and create an environment where both educators and students thrive in STEM and project-based learning.
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