Career in STEM
OCTOBER 16, 2022
Halloween is almost upon us! As the day draws nearer, you are likely looking for quick and easy ways to incorporate Halloween and STEM activities in your classroom. Here are our Top 10 Halloween STEM Activities: 1. Halloween STEM Careers Webquest. Looking to incorporate career exploration into your Halloween themed STEM activities? This Webquest is just what you need!
Educators Technology
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Emerging technologies are revolutionizing how organizations across industries operate, and the education sector is no exception. Over the last 10 years — particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — schools and colleges have had to adapt and evolve their approaches to learning and collaboration, opening the door to the “learn from anywhere” world.
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Middle Web
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The life skills students learn in our classes prepare them to thrive in the real world. Middle grades teacher Laleh Ghotbi shares some lessons from her effort to use weekly community-building circles in her classroom to help students learn to respect their differences and focus on common values. The post How Classroom Circles Help Us Build Community first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Basic-Mathematics
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Learn how to get the volume of a sphere and the volume of the earth which is a sphere. Derivation of the volume formula With Calculus.
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.
Defined Learning
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Could you imagine a world where each and every one of us uses our talents and resources to nurture the potential that simmers within? Could we work toward developing an in-depth understanding of our unique talents that are awaiting to be courageously unwrapped and shared with others? What if we strived to build systems that focused more on lifting each other up instead of pushing ourselves and others down?
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they can be up to something else, as a tool of persuasion trying to shape the narrative. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast we’re looking at how metaphors shape technology in education.
Accelerate Learning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Traditional methods of teaching math only work for a handful of students. The majority of students struggle trying to learn math the same way as those select few.
Career in STEM
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Halloween is coming up fast! With the season of candy and costumes nearly upon us, the time has come to start preparing outfits for trick-of-treating! But what if you wanted to inject a bit of education into your kids’ Halloween ensemble? Turn costume shopping into a moment of learning? Here are five great STEM costumes that you can make and turn use as an opportunity to educate your kids: Doctor/Surgeon/Nurse/Vet.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Here are popular resources teachers are using to teach about digital citizenship. Click the titles for more links: Avatars. Copyrights and Digital Laws. Curriculum. Applied Digital Skills –all tech skills. Google’s Be Internet Awesome –abbreviated course. K-8, scaffolded, Ask a Tech Teacher (with projects). Cyberbullying. Cybersecurity. Cyber Patriot program –by the Air Force.
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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
OCTOBER 18, 2022
After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students. With new technologies in place, education leaders are challenged to align their recent investments to what matters most: enabling equity, advancing learning and fostering well-being among students and staff.
STEM Everyday Podcast
OCTOBER 19, 2022
EarthEcho International is getting ready to launch the third edition of OurEcho Challenge. In this national STEM competition, teams of students aged 10-15 , guided by a teacher or mentor, are challenged to address the decline in biodiversity by identifying threats to natural resources in their communities and developing innovative solutions. To learn more, please visit ourechochallenge.org. .
Know Adam's Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2022
"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know." Aristotle. What is the Claim, Support, Question Thinking Routine? The Claim, Support, Question thinking routine helps students develop key thinking moves like identifying generalizations, offering counterarguments, reasoning with evidence, and asking questions. Created by Ron Ritchhart and researchers at Project Zero, this thinking routine shows students the importance of identifying, understanding, and making claims based on reasoning an
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Often, these go undiagnosed as students, parents, and teachers simply think the child is not a good reader, is lazy, or is disinterested. Thankfully, the International Dyslexia Association sponsors an annual Dyslexia Awareness Month in October aimed to expand comprehension of this little-understood language-based learning condition.
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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
OCTOBER 19, 2022
One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” For those who plan on graduate school, their immediate future is pretty much set. But for most, what happens next is often in doubt. There’s long been the concern that employers won’t take online degrees as seriously as campus-based ones, though these days online degrees are pretty mainstream.
Smore Science
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Have you ever been mesmerized by flames? Whether it’s a crackling campfire or the tip of a birthday candle, fire is spellbinding. But fire can also be unpredictable and dangerous. Taming fire is like taming a tiger—you always risk it going wild. Finding the balance between fire as a tool and fire as a destructive force has challenged humans for a million years.
Box Light
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Hello, I am a Lyrik that lives in the Physical Education Department. Mr. Peters was up super early to take me to the school pool for swim practice. He wants to make sure that every member of the swim team can hear the guidance and feedback needed to improve their skills. One of the better parts of my job is to help the person who has me to communicate clearly so that any important information and direction is heard.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 20, 2022
I don’t write enough about special needs so when Rose contacted me with an article idea, I was thrilled. Rose Scott is a literary teacher with a goal of making education comfortable for students with special needs. Her dream is to help students explore their talents and abilities. In this article, Rose writes about a little-known problem that students may unknowingly suffer from that may make it look like they are plagiarizing when–to them–they aren’t.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 19, 2022
The kids are not alright. Medical experts agree that, after nearly three years of pandemic-induced strain, children are in the midst of a mental health crisis. One signal of just how severe a crisis: The U.S. Department of Education is ready to give schools $280 million through two grant programs to help young people access mental health care. It’s the first wave of a total $1 billion—funded through the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act—that the department will spend on youth mental healt
Middle Web
OCTOBER 19, 2022
To move beyond traditional classroom discussion focused on answering a few teacher questions, Dr. Barbara Blackburn advocates student-driven discourse that emphasizes “on-task” talk and academic vocabulary. The result: purposeful dialogue leading to deeper understanding. The post Staying on Task with Meaningful Student Talk first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Futurum
OCTOBER 19, 2022
How can we make future places healthier spaces? Published: Professor Richard Harper , based at Lancaster University in the UK, is the principal investigator of a project called the Future Places Centre. This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 19, 2022
#ISTE had an interesting discussion on how to foster digital citizenship in schools. This is especially critical because students are spending so much more time than ever before online. Here’s a peak at their conversation and then a link to the rest: 3 Ways To Foster Digital Citizenship in Schools. For teachers, it can be difficult to know when and how to instill digital citizenship skills.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Higher education may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s true even for the most elite colleges. A group of researchers at Stanford University spent the past year documenting how teaching and student services changed at Stanford during emergency remote learning, and their report , released today, argues that there’s been a shift in the institution’s identity as a result.
Middle Web
OCTOBER 16, 2022
Choice in reading is about student autonomy and motivation. It’s especially effective with kids who don’t like to read. Stephanie Farley’s well-honed system lets 8th graders read any text they choose AND meets standards – even though they never all read the same book. The post What Kids Gain When We Don’t ‘Teach’ Books first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Futurum
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics. Published: We know that black holes exist through a mix of complex mathematics and astrophysics but linking mathematical ideas to what we can observe in the Universe is no easy task. Dr Daniel Terno and his team at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, are building a framework of characteristics that can be used to search for black holes in the Universe, but their findings may challenge our understanding of the fundamental laws of phy
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 15, 2022
To celebrate the launch of Natural Selection , Book 3 in the Dawn of Humanity trilogy, the ebook of Book 1– Born in a Treacherous Time –is FREE on Amazon Kindle October 15th-October 19th. When you fall in love with prehistoric fiction, read Book 2 of the trilogy, Laws of Nature before the launch of Book 3, Natural Selection, on October 19th.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Companies that are committed to diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) provide products and services that authentically and accurately reflect the learners they serve—whoever they are and wherever they live. These organizations have developed and embedded coherent and consistent principles to clearly define DEI content and DEI-attentive products. They have shaped and promoted editorial guidelines for the products they fashion, which will land in the hands of educators and students.
Smore Science
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Elephants often get praise for their impressive memory. It’s commonly known they can remember events from their past a year later. However, do elephants really have superior memory, or is this another common myth? Memory is complex. Should “good memory” be defined as remembering many different things all at once, or one thing for a long time? Additionally, why would an elephant need to have a good memory?
Middle Web
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Miriam Plotinsky asks for a mindset shift toward student autonomy and then focuses on creating deeper relationships so that students have a safe space to take risks. The goal? A less micromanaged, more student-directed learning environment, writes teacher Rebecca Crockett. The post How to Move Beyond Micromanaging in Class first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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