Educators Technology
APRIL 9, 2021
Blooklet is a platform that gamifies education and helps students make the best of their learning in fun and engaging ways. Blooklet draws on the learning principles of games (e.g the systems of.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 7, 2021
Financial Literacy Month is recognized annually in Canada in November, [1] and National Financial Literacy Month was recognized in the United States in April 2004, [2] in an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach citizens how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. When kids read that America’s $28 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions.
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PCS Edventures
APRIL 8, 2021
Spring Is In The Air! Spring is arriving in full force. As the weather warms up we shift our attention to the outdoors. April is the perfect month to contemplate the value of nature and the complexities and beauty of the world in which we live in. Celebrating Mother Earth on Earth Day. To that end, April is the month in which people around the world celebrate Earth Day.
Get Caught Engineering
APRIL 6, 2021
Looking to more fully integrate STEM into your curriculum? Are you looking for a way to involve your parents in their child’s learning? Do you need it to be easily adaptable to a virtual setting? We have the answer for you. Our Classics and STEM series integrates all of the wonderful facets of STEM while reading great classic literature and acting as a parent outreach program!
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.
Educators Technology
APRIL 8, 2021
Mote is an excellent Chrome extension I discovered through Richard Byrne which you can use to create and share voice notes. Mote is integrated into Google Drive allowing you to easily record.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning
APRIL 5, 2021
121 OTT: How to Get to Real World Thinking Through Long Term STEM Projects Today we are talking about how to get to real-world thinking and problem-solving through the use of long-term STEM projects with Claire M from Vivify STEM. Clair is an Engineer educator. She is a real engineer who found a passion for reaching children through STEM. She is incredible and brilliant.
Magic EdTech
APRIL 5, 2021
Today, educational publishers and EdTech companies face several challenges with their legacy learning products. These organizations mainly cater to the learning needs of K12 and higher education segments. Considering the ever-evolving nature of the sector, the legacy products often create pressing issues like: ? High Maintenance Costs. ? Difficulties in Upgradation. ?
K-12 Education News
APRIL 7, 2021
School-based interventions that target students with, or at risk of, academic difficulties in kindergarten to grade 6 have positive effects on reading and mathematics, according to a new article.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 6, 2021
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: Backup Your Computer Often. Category: Maintenance, Security, PCs, Macs, Chromebooks.
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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.
STEM Minds
APRIL 5, 2021
READ MORE CASE STUDIES. The post Minecraft in the Classroom (2021) appeared first on STEM MINDS.
The Blog of Phyz
APRIL 8, 2021
Humans are so good at finding patterns, we often find patterns where none exist. This phenomenon is referred to as pareidolia. Add to this the power of suggestion, and things get even more interesting. The back masking panic was fueled by audio pareidolia. As was EVP: electronic voice phenomena, a means by which ghost hunters fool themselves and others.
K-12 Education News
APRIL 7, 2021
A study suggests outdoor education could be a promising tool to help close gender gaps in science.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 9, 2021
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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!
Informed K12
APRIL 8, 2021
After all the back and forth starts and stops, it looks like we are all deeply involved in reopening now!
Ellipsis Education
APRIL 6, 2021
Justis Gipson Junior Developer. Amy Marcou Customer Experience Specialist. Just as there are thousands of spoken languages around the world, there are thousands of programming languages in use today. Programming languages have been developed as a “system of communication” for multiple purposes and solve various problems, like spoken languages are tailored to a particular country or community. lan·guage noun the principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and
The Innovative Educator
APRIL 3, 2021
Writing during a pandemic You would think a pandemic would be a wonderful time to write. And, it was. At least for the first six months of the pandemic. At that time, I was writing a lot. It was at this time that hardly anyone was seeing anyone outside their home face-to-face. Most people weren't traveling either. I was not living with friends or family, so my interactions with people was strictly video or with neighbors who happened to be outside (six feet away) when I was.
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