Sat.Aug 14, 2021 - Fri.Aug 20, 2021

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Technology is Here to Stay: Now What?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, taught for 36 years before retiring. He has some interesting reflections on technology’s place in education: Remember the days of Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe’s or students drawing pictures with Kid Pix. Much has changed since technology has made inroads into education, and much has not.

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Tons of Ready-made Music Lesson Plans for Teachers

Educators Technology

Soundtrap for Education is an excellent platform that draws on the power of music to facilitate learning across different subjects and grade levels. Soundtrap studio empowers teachers and students.read more.

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Playing With Code–Recursion

Computer Science Teacher

Recursion was never a big part of my toolbox but I am starting to appreciate it more recently. Regular readers know that I have been writing about and writing code for some older, simpler cryptography systems. For one of them I needed a list of letter in the alphabet without duplicating previous letters. I needed to take a letter from the alphabet (I had a string of it) and see if it was in a list of used letters.

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How to create a walkSTEM tour on YOUR site

Talk STEM

Are you a school or other organization interested in creating a walkSTEM tour of your very own? After school learning spaces, universities, museums, zoos, cities, and corporate offices are all examples of sites that have created their own walkSTEM tour for their communities. We’ve compiled a list of resources here to make the process as easy as possible!

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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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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

If we humans aren’t giving away our personal information (as we do on FB, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media account), we’re having it stolen without our permission or knowledge and sold to those who mean us harm. As a teacher-author, this is a bigger deal than most because: we have copyrighted files that provide us an income. . we have a access to our income streams on our digital devices.

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STEM Everyday #212 | STEM Collaboration | feat. Marla Rosenthal & Christine Dixon

STEM Everyday Podcast

Marla Rosenthal & Christine Dixon are K-8 STEM educators in southern California, with a big focus on innovation, design, and making. They took their teaching to the next level during the pandemic by working together across district lines to help their kids have even better STEM learning experiences. Their choice boards & STEAM lesson starters are great resources (find them here: [link] ).

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Storyboard That for Back to School

Technology Tidbits

Storyboard That the wonderful resource that educators everywhere are using for a variety of educational purposes (i.e. timelines, digital storytelling, project based learning, etc), has just released a bunch of ideas/activities on how to use Storyboard That over the summer. These activities cover a wide range of topics from story starters, reading projects, digital storytelling, and more.

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Tech Tip #159: Create a Macro

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: Create a Macro. Category: MS Office, Problem-solving, Keyboarding.

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STEM Freebie- Yearly Plans

Starfish Education

You’re headed into a new year (or maybe just teaching a new subject or course)! It’s so exciting…but can also be overwhelming. Where do you begin? And how do you. The post STEM Freebie- Yearly Plans appeared first on Starfish Education.

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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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NASA Seeks Student Tech Ideas for Suborbital Launch

Smore Science

NASA is calling on all sixth through 12th-grade educators and students to submit experiments for possible suborbital flights as a way of gaining firsthand experience with the design and testing process used by NASA researchers. The NASA TechRise Student Challenge invites students to design, build, and launch experiments on suborbital rockets and high-altitude balloons.

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ChatterPix Kids

Technology Tidbits

ChatterPix Kids is a free mobile (iOS/Google Play) app that is super-fun way to give any object a "voice". All a user has to do is upload a image, draw a line, and record a voice, ChatterPix does the rest. This is a great/safe way to introduce digital storytelling and project based learning into the classroom for younger students. Below is a brief demo.

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Equipment You Need for Online Tutoring

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching during the pandemic has turned the iconic job of education on its head. Should you teach at home or in school–or with a hybrid approach? How can you be effective with the new rules required to ensure safety while maximizing the students’ educational journey? Is it safe to enter the classroom? You’ve never taught remotely before–how do you do that and still meet your school’s education standards and curricula?

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Vicki Davis | IT Director, CoolCatTeacher

Ellipsis Education

Welcome to Codelicious Confidence Builders. In this video series, professionals, students, and teachers share how they built confidence in their computer science skills. Hear amazing stories about how they explored new concepts, reflected on their mistakes, and experienced the rush of learning something new! Vicki Davis is a teacher. She spends her days connecting with students as an IT Director.

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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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140: OTT: 2 Tips to Rock Back-to-School

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

140: OTT: 2 Tips to Rock Back-to-School Today I will share two tips to get your school year started. I hope your year is excellent! Links Mentioned in the Show: 139 OTT: How to Rock the First Week of School: Back-to-School Tips Back to School Decor, First Week Team Builders, and More… Today I will share two tips to get your school year started. I hope your year is excellent!

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Best Resources for Social Emotional Learning

Smore Science

The importance of creating an environment that fosters social emotional learning both at home and in the classroom can’t be overlooked. Many educators face obstacles daily in their classrooms because of their student’s lack of social emotional skills. The reality is many teachers feel they spend more time dealing with social emotional issues than they spend on academics.

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Home Experiment: Homemade Lava Lamp

Top 10 Sciencekits

[link] If you're looking for a really fun home experiment for your kids - this is the right blog post for you! Today we're going to show you how to create a Lava Lamp! Materials you'll need. A clear plastic or glass container. Food Colouring. Vinegar. Baking Soda. vegetable oil. small bowel. Flat Lamp (iPhone flashlight will do). Instructions. Fill the container with 2 tablespoon of baking soda. fill the container with vegetable oil (until it's almost full). on a small bowel, pour 4 tablespoon o

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Quarky: The Best Educational AI Robot Kit for Kids

Stem Education News

AI for kids is a booming sector in the educational industry and not without good reason. The tech-savvy generation is all the more hyped about futuristic gadgets, AI-based robots and AI robot kits for kids. After all, robotics and artificial intelligence are the future of science and technology. Advancements in these areas will make the […] The post Quarky: The Best Educational AI Robot Kit for Kids appeared first on STEMpedia.

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Video: How We Fix the Climate

Teach Science for All

If you have spent any time with the release of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report on Climate Change there is a chance that you came away with a “doom and gloom” feeling about the future of our planet.

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Science Like A Girl – Inventor and Author Arlyne Simon

Smore Science

When a nurse hooks a syringe to a syringe pump, she isn’t thinking about the regulations and research it took to ensure a to save a life. When an expectant mother looks at an ultrasound, she isn’t thinking about connecting the circuits or programming the interface – she wants to see her baby. As a Platform Architect, Dr. Arlyne Simon knows that much of what makes the world work can be hard to see.

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ICER 2021 Preview: The Challenges of Validated Assessments, Developing Rich Conceptualizations, and Understanding Interest #icer2021

Computing Education Research Blog

The International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER) 2021 is this week ( website here ). It should have been in Charleston, South Carolina (one of my favorite cities), but it will instead be all on-line. Unlike previous years, if you are not already registered, you’re unfortunately out of luck. As seen in Matthias Hauswirth’s terrific guest blog post from last week ( see here ), getting set up in Clowdr is complicated.