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10 Great Apps for Dyslexia (teacher-tested)

Educators Technology

Updated in June 18, 2022 The purpose of this post is to provide you with a collection of some teacher and parent-tested apps to use with kids with dyslexia. The apps cover various learning areas that.read more.

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Hard & Soft Skills That Can Improve Your Robotics Education

Robot Lab

By Devin Partida. www.unsplash.com. There has never been a better time to pursue a career in robotics. The industry continues to grow every year in both value and size. To compete today, aspiring robotics engineers and professionals must have a comprehensive skill set. These hard and soft skills will improve your robotics education and help set you up for success in the robotics industry.

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Six Ways to Add Rigor by Deepening Thinking

Middle Web

What does it look like when your students are doing rigorous work and thinking deeply? Dr. Karin Hess discusses how content complexity, cognitive engagement, and the intended scope and depth of a learning activity can work together to scaffold and support deeper thinking. The post Six Ways to Add Rigor by Deepening Thinking first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Is it Time for a Social Media Awareness Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Christian Miraglia, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has some great ideas on teaching kids about Social Media Awareness: Over the last decade, there has been pressure in the K-12 learning environment to create classes that address everything from managing your money to various efforts to address cultural inequalities. The problem with including these classes, which all have good intentions, is that there is not enough time to address these subjects without taking away from core subjects.

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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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Best Math Websites for Teachers and Students

Educators Technology

The list below features a collection of some of the best math websites for teachers and students. I have been constantly updating the list to keep the resources fresh and relevant. The initial.read more.

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How to Prepare CTE Students for Technology’s Changing Landscape

Defined Learning

Districts across the country revise and rewrite their academic visions, goals, and strategic plans every year. Professional development (PD) for administrators is embedded, and if the district has a comprehensive strategy for teacher PD, best practices are implemented in every classroom. However, is this really what is happening nationwide, and are Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers included in the “trickle-down” process of PD?

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Tech Tip #68: Make Desktop Icons Big or Little

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: Make Desktop Icons Big or Little.

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10 Great Search Engines for History Teachers

Educators Technology

The purpose of today's post is to provide history teachers (and history aficionados for that matter) with a collection of useful history search websites to help them search for, locate, and.read more.

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Higher Ed Is Investing in Student Success Tech. Is It a ‘New Golden Age’ or Just Vague Talk?

ED Surge

Can Technology Transform Colleges—Or Do They Have A Responsibility To Take The Lead? As higher ed looks to move into the post-coronavirus world, the sector has found itself having to adapt. Leaders hope to drive up graduation rates and to lure more students in through their gates, especially given threats like the enrollment crisis. Under these considerations, the impact of technology on teaching and learning hasn’t been lost on university leaders, researchers say.

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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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Dive into Summer PD – and Lots More!

Middle Web

Whether summer means it's time to relax, bolster your professional know-how, improve your bank balance, or reconsider your profession, we have suggestions from your educator colleagues and other sources that can help. Plan now! The post Dive into Summer PD – and Lots More! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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9 Websites to Address Social Media

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you read our article on teaching social media awareness , you may be looking for online tools to teach students about this subject. Here are some we recommend: #Hashtag You’re It –video; your hashtags may reveal more than you think. 10 Social Media-inspired Learning Activities- -no accounts required; from Ditch That Textbook. How is Social Media Transforming the Future of Education?

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Gimkit- Live Game Show for the Classroom (Teacher's Review)

Educators Technology

Gimkit is a game-show application designed for use with learners in and out of class. Teachers can set up classes, invite students to join, and start creating and sharing game quizzes known as.read more.

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How the ‘Computer Science for All’ Movement Fits In Broader History of Social-Justice Battles

ED Surge

The stakes are high when it comes to equity in computer science education and in the broader tech industry. That’s not just because tech is a key to economic opportunity in America these days, but it’s also because of the social good that comes when everyone has a chance to have a seat at the table to build a better future. That was the message at “Black Tech Policy Week 2022,” a recent online event hosted by the Black Tech Futures Research Institute.

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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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Programming in blocks lets far more people code — but not like software engineers: Response to the Ofsted Report

Computing Education Research Blog

A May 2022 report from the UK government Research Review Series: Computing makes some strong claims about block-based programming that I think are misleading. The report is summarizing studies from the computing education research literature. Here’s the paragraph that I’m critiquing: Block-based programming languages can be useful in teaching programming, as they reduce the need to memorise syntax and are easier to use.

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Teaching Early Geometry Concepts

Ask a Tech Teacher

I spend a lot of time every week reading about current thinking in education. An article over at The Tech Edvocate caught my eye on early math. Math is a fundamental process in learning, not just adding and subtracting but to develops skill in problem solving and critical thinking. Scientists think that the sophistication of stone toolmaking almost a million years ago showed the symbolic and spatial thinking ability already present in our ancestors–a million years ago!

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New Teacher? Find Help and Inspiration Here

Middle Web

Beginning your first year as a middle level teacher? Our resource collection points to plenty of how-to advice – from our very own bloggers and guest writers as well as other outstanding sources – that will guide you through the first weeks of school and the semesters ahead. The post New Teacher? Find Help and Inspiration Here first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Students Got a Crash Course in Tech During the Pandemic. Now Some Want a Break

ED Surge

We are just over two years into the pandemic for COVID-19, and my students are finally back in the classroom and learning in-person. Keeping my students motivated is still a challenge, and I’ve noticed an important change in their attitude to technology: Just using tech for activities and projects has not been inspiring my students like it did before the pandemic.

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REU-POWER/PATHWAYS – First 3 Weeks

Northeastern University

Last week we completed the third week of our REU-POWER and REU-PATHWAYS programs. REU-POWER, with a focus on energy-related research, is now in it’s final year, after having run from 2018 to 2022 ( Alumni page ). REU-PATHWAYS, our new grant (first year!), is focused on enriching community college students ( current students ) and is expected to run for the next 3 years.

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6 Educational Grants That Could Let You Bring Robotics Into the Classroom

Robot Lab

By Carla Jose. Image Source: Pexels. Robotics isn’t just a technology that’s suitable for manufacturing and other major industries; it also has applications in an education context. Of course robotics systems are not always affordable for the average school, college or university. So what grants and support schemes are out there which could bring high end systems within reach of average institutions?

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Next Generation Interactive Display Technology – MimioPro 4

Box Light

The MimioPro 4 interactive display is ready for classrooms, libraries, offices, and more! This cutting-edge display will help create a learning landscape that optimizes what can be done in the modern classroom.

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Purdue University Suspends Income-Share Agreements, Its Loan Alternative

ED Surge

Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. The reason? A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones. “Unlike Vemo, Launch does not provide ISA origination support functions but instead only services those agreements that have already been entered into by Purdue

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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom? Published: June 21, 2022. When young black men and boys are accused of crimes, rap music is often presented as evidence. This is a practice that an international network of scholars, including Professor Eithne Quinn from the University of Manchester in the UK, has found to be structurally racist.

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Jun 22, Sum of the Three Angles of a Triangle

Online Math for All

Sum of the Three Angles of a Triangle - Concept - Solved Examples

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Boxlight Has a New Website!

Box Light

We are pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website! After over a year of hard work, collaboration, and dedication, we are thrilled to officially announce the launch. Check it out at www.boxlight.com.

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COVID Aid Gives Schools a Chance To Improve Digital Operations, but Time Is Running Out

ED Surge

On a recent visit to a school district, I was startled to find a procurement office with folding tables stacked with hundreds of paper purchasing orders that needed to be manually reviewed and approved. What major industry still operates like that? The answer, unfortunately, is too many schools. With annual expenditures of more than $750 billion , American public schools have complicated operations—from financial workflow to human resources to business analytics, and too many rely on analog proc

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Help Students Discover Their Writer’s Mindset

Middle Web

Chris Hall wasn’t satisfied with the way he taught revision in MS writing workshop. After much reflection he's concluded that the best revision takes place in the mind of the writer during the writing process – not after it’s done. Six mindset ‘stances’ help students learn this skill. The post Help Students Discover Their Writer’s Mindset first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Jun 23, Parts of Circles Dictionary

Online Math for All

Parts of Circles Dictionary - Definitions - Visual Examples

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A Day with Spark - Real-World STEM Education

Box Light

I love being in a classroom that’s engaged in hands-on learning. The combination of excitement, silliness, creativity, and problem-solving all coming together is one of my favorite things. In my role as MimioSTEM product manager, I spend every day developing content and thinking of fun ways to use our technology products in the classroom but it’s always a special treat to get to experience it first-hand.

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Some Money Pouring into ‘High-Dose’ Tutoring Is Going to Less-Researched Models. Is That a Problem?

ED Surge

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University. And there was particular concern over students losing skills in those areas during the pandemic, especially in K-12.

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How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Middle Web

In The Power of Regret, creativity and motivation author Dan Pink finds that regrets can make us stronger and more effective in our work. Professional learning consultant Cathy Gassenheimer encourages educators to consider how Pink’s four types of regrets relate to our lives. The post How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Jun 22, Solving Equations with Exponents

Online Math for All

Solving Equations with Exponents - Concept - Solved Examples

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