Sat.Mar 13, 2021 - Fri.Mar 19, 2021

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10 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites with activities for different grade levels, different classes: Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. Physical Education St. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com.

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An Easy Way to Add Polls to Your Google Slides Presentations

Educators Technology

Slido is a great add-on to use with your Google Slides to make your presentations interactive and conversational. Slido allows you to run live polling simultaneously as you are working on your.

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Choosing Not to Grade Student Work

User Generated Education

I wear many hats as an educator. I teach graduate courses in education and counseling. I am a seminar facilitator for student teachers, and I teach gifted education at three Title 1 elementary schools. I have said for decades that I love teaching but I hate grading. It puts me in a power position over students which is, for me, contrary to my teaching philosophy of creating a learning community where we all become teachers and learners.

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Socrates

Technology Tidbits

Many schools are now realizing they do not have the tools in place so kids can continue to learn while schools are closed. Socrates personalized learning for the students so they are progressing automatically, and provides teachers with tools to monitor progress and assign topics. Teachers can control the learning remotely or just allow Socrates to adjust automatically - making it a perfect tool for teachers with closed classrooms.

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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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Tech Tip #133: 10 Favorite Mac Shortkeys

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: 10 Favorite Mac Shortkeys. Category: Macs, Keyboarding.

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Eight Days A Week

The Blog of Phyz

Here's a lesson plan organizer spreadsheet. It shows the classes I'm teaching and the cohorts assigned. All I need to do from here is flesh it out with some quality lessons. Rinse and repeat. The sheet below accounts for the week of March 22. There will be 16 lessons each week for the remainder of the school year. Just gotta write 'em down and roll 'em out.

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CurrikiStudio

Technology Tidbits

CurrikiStudio is a wonderful learning suite of tools that lets educators seamlessly create interactive learning experiences. This is done by creating a playlist of learning objectives, choose from over 40 learning activities, add multimedia content, and then share w/ others/students. Also, CurrikiStudio is ideal for integrating project based learning and blended learning into any classroom.

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Resources to Teach Taxes

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a passionate Economics major in college (which grew into an MBA), I find Econ at the root of much of the world around us. It starts with counting coins in first and second grade and grows up to a peek into NASDAQ and other adult subjects in middle school. In the US, tax day is April 15th. Here are some good websites to discuss what is probably a popular topic in families: Taxes.

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Integrating accessibility across the agile development

Magic EdTech

The use of the web is inevitable in businesses, social lives, jobs, and the education of the 21st century. People use the web for everyday activities because of the comfort, convenience, and easy access. Almost all sectors rely on the web to run their business smoothly, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Most education systems worldwide have implemented remote learning, digital learning, and online learning during the pandemic.

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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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Chemistry for Families with Multi-Aged Children

Chillax Science

We often think learning chemistry requires complicated and sophisticated equipment. This way of thinking happens to teachers and families alike. In fact, I have fell trapped of that misconception too. As parents and teachers, we may even feel guilty because we don’t have money or resources for children to learn chemistry. What if I told you that you (and I) have so much chemistry equipment already?

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How to Host a Virtual STEM Family Event!

Vivify Stem

How to Host a Virtual STEM Family Event By Natasha Wilkerson We miss our packed STEM Family Nights that included students and parents working together to launch rockets, build towers, and make slime! While we wait to bring back in-person events, we have put together a guide for hosting an all-virtual STEM event that will encourage families to step away from the computer and complete a hands-on project together!

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2021 Summer STEM Camp Guide: Chicago Edition

The Maker Mom

Is it possible that all those hours playing Minecraft will lead your child to a lucrative career? With the right guidance, all that screen time may pay off! In partnership with our companion site, STEM Kids Chicago, we’re present with Chicagoland’s most comprehensive guide to STEM and STEAM camps. Whether they are in elementary school, middle school, or high school, these camps can ignite your child’s passion for science and technology or fan the flames that are already burning

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Customer Success Spotlight: Joran Rose

Informed K12

What is your title, and how long have you worked here? Sr. Customer Success Manager, and it will be two years at the end of March! I started as a Customer Success Manager and was promoted to Senior CSM after a little over a year!

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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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118 OTT-How to Teach Simple STEM for Independent Learners For Maximum Engagement

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

118 OTT-How to Teach Simple STEM for Independent Learners For Maximum Engagement Very often as we start our journey into teaching with an interdisciplinary mindset such as STEM, we get overwhelmed with how to integrate a variety of disciplines. The key really is to just start somewhere. Renee Henrick from Science Schoolyard talks to us about simple STEM ideas and how to nurture independent learners.

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Science Like A Girl – Cosmetic Chemist Roselin Rosario-Meléndez

Smore Science

Dr. Roselin Rosario-Meléndez has always loved makeup, but even her younger self couldn’t have imagined that she would end up creating a best-selling lipstick as a chemist. She had never known a chemist, let alone heard of a cosmetic chemist. Being a scientist just didn’t cross her young mind. Finding her way to her career wasn’t part of a grand plan.

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ClassHook

Technology Tidbits

ClassHook is an innovative new site for finding educational videos/clips that I was just reminded of by Monica Burns blog. ClassHook is a search engine for finding educational video clips through popular media. It searches through TV shows, movies, and other forms of entertainment to bring educational clips to educators. Best of all an educator can search through different subjects and each video displays wether it is for El Ed, MS, HS, etc.

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New CTeLearning Course Features for 2021

CTE Learning

What is new for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year? Well, quite a bit. Thanks again this year to all of our clients for trusting in us, giving us the feedback we need to create new features they need, and kindly pointing out when a bug slipped out from under the boot of testing. We have been working non-stop, except when we get distracted by squirrel videos.

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Working With the Likes of Lego, Disney, and Lucasfilm to Engage Students in STEM (Opinion)

ED Week

Rick Hess speaks with FIRST's Erica Newton Fessia about inspiring young people's interest in STEM using team-based robotics programs.

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4 Ways HS Students Develop the IT Skills for Higher Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

There’s still time this school year to help high school students learn the skills they’ll require to thrive in Higher Education. Here are basics you don’t want them to graduate without–from one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors: 4 Ways to Help High School Students Develop the IT Skills They’ll Need for Higher Education.

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Cloud Stop Motion

Technology Tidbits

Cloud Stop Motion is an innovative site for creating and storing stop motion video projects. This is ideal for educators looking to integrate technology into the classroom and can be used for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more. Best of all, the educational portal allows teachers to track and manage student accounts, organize all projects, and export/watch all videos, all from w/in the web/browser.

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Q&A With Web Design and Remote Working Professional Certifications Recipient

CTE Learning

We spoke with Angelica, who completed the Intro to Web Design course and certification as well as the Remote Working Professional course and certification. Angelica talks about how taking the courses and earning her certifications has positioned her to prepare for the next stages of her career. What did you like about the courses? I loved that each of the courses tied in real-life examples and expertise from industry workers.