Sat.Feb 05, 2022 - Fri.Feb 11, 2022

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). This used to mean enrolling at your local college or online institution. Now, the right classes may not be available, or available but at the wrong time, or the class is full before you get a chance to enroll.

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Best Science YouTube Channels

Educators Technology

Science is all about exploring (and enjoying) the wonders of the world around us. Videos make this exploratory experience even engaging and fun. Through videos science is brought to life.read more.

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Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields

ED Surge

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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February 11: National Inventors’ Day & International Day of Women and Girls in Science

EiE Blog

In 1983 President Ronald Reagan declared February 11th as National Inventors’ Day, with the date chosen in honor of the birthday of Thomas Alva Edison. The United Nations deemed the same date the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015 in recognition of the contributions of women to the field. Today, we’re proud to have February 11th as a celebration of STEM excellence from all inventors all over the world.

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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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14 Valentine Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Apps for Valentine’s Day. Drag-and-drop games. Google Drawings Magnetic Poetry from Ctrl Alt Achieve. Games and puzzles. Games and stories. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Match.

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Can Third Graders Learn Data Science? These Researchers Say Yes

ED Surge

Tell me about your dog. What type is it? What color is it? How much does it weigh? If you’ve got a cat, same questions apply. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)? If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives.

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What are the Advantages of VR in a Technical Classroom?

Robot Lab

( Street Boro City Schools students in a class using VR). While virtual reality (VR) is still a developing technology, many industries worldwide are looking into the potential benefits of using it in their operations. From manufacturing to retail, VR can be a transformative piece of tech that intertwines digital and physical realities. Another sector investigating the advantages of VR is education.

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Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

Ask a Tech Teacher

update. A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month here on my education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher. . 7 Writing Hacks. Though published for authors, these tips are well-suited for writing classes and teacher-authors: Writing is hard. And satisfying. And an opportunity for the long-sought-after huzzah moment.

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Best Resources for Science Teachers

Educators Technology

Updated in February 2022 Science is all about discovery, exploration, and learning. The net is full of resources that you can use to bring science to life in and outside of your classroom. To provide.read more.

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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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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

ED Surge

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. This is foundational to both teachers and their administrators. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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Cultivating Empathy in the Classroom

Box Light

In the past year cultivating empathy has become a need in every classroom, helping students and teachers navigate the challenges of our ‘new norm.’ We all realize two years in that the growing feelings of isolation, lack of community, and limited interaction have affected how our students engage and develop relationships. As we approach two years of masking, social distancing, hybrid learning, remote learning, and more, how can cultivating and nurturing empathy bring positive results to the clas

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Tech Tip #172: Translate Webpages In a Second

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is not part of the 169 tech tips for your class book but it will be when I update the ebook: Tech Tip #172: Translate Webpages in a Second. Over the years, I get more and more views on this blog from non-English-speaking nations. I always drop in to visit and no surprise, their blogs are in their native language (as mine is). Sometimes they have the Translate feature, but not always.

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Here is How to Create A Classroom Blog Using Blogger

Educators Technology

Updated in February, 2022 Blogging is a digital activity with immense educational potential. You can easily integrate blogging into your teaching to both transform your professional practice and to.read more.

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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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Social Emotional Learning Should Not Be the Next Target in America’s Culture Wars

ED Surge

A politician in the Midwest recently told a state committee that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids about feelings or emotions. A group of Virginia parents demanded to review their school’s online social-emotional learning curriculum, convinced the school was hiding something. In the south, a state department told employees to refrain from even using the phrase social-emotional learning.

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HOW PBL ALIGNS WITH EFFECTIVE TEACHING FRAMEWORKS, Part 4: Classroom Environment

Defined Learning

This is the fourth of four posts about project-based learning and the most commonly used frameworks for effective teaching. In my first post , I talked about how teachers can move from traditional teaching to project-based learning without totally reinventing their practice because PBL aligns with the frameworks for effective teaching already used by many schools, districts, and other organizations.

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Novels in Verse! The Why, Which and How

Middle Web

Novels in verse offer quicker reads with instant character connections, vivid imagery, pathways to complex issues, strong narratives, and much more. ELA teacher Kasey Short shares how to use them in class and introduces lots of titles for your middle graders. The post Novels in Verse! The Why, Which and How first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Where's my stuff?

The Blog of Phyz

I created a new blog to document the curriculum resources I have authored/created over the years. Specifically the ones that have been published beyond the realm of phyz.org. Phyz.org remains my "school-oriented" website. It began in the 1990s as a repository for most of my physics curriculum materials. I adopted the "Phyz" prefix from my mentor, the late Walt Scheider, Ann Arbor Huron High's 1983 Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

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Teachers Have Little Say When School Districts Make Decisions. Here's How We Change That.

ED Surge

It was fall 2020, and here I was, sitting at my computer in tears. I had just received a notice from my school about the push for teachers and leaders to return to school for in-person learning. The email highlighted a “hybrid plan” that involved teachers rotating in and out of the building on specific days and periods. In theory, the rotations were logistically sound.

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Best Chicago STEM Summer Camps 2023

The Maker Mom

Is it possible that all those hours your child spends on their computer will lead to a lucrative career? With the right guidance, all that screen time may pay off! To help that process, we’re presenting Chicago’s most comprehensive guide to STEM and STEAM camps guide. Whether your children are in elementary school, middle school, or high school, these camps can ignite their passion for science and technology or fan the flames that are already burning.

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A Captivating Dive into Student Self-Motivation

Middle Web

The new edition of Debbie Silver’s Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 is an essential handbook for adults who want to help kids become committed, continuous learners. NBCT Kathie Palmieri finds the book’s attention to self motivation, ZPD and growth mindset particularly helpful. Highly recommended. The post A Captivating Dive into Student Self-Motivation first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This article originally appeared back in December at Grading for Growth , a blog about alternative grading practices that I co-author with my colleague David Clark. I post there every other Monday (David does the other Mondays). Check the end of this post for some extra thoughts that don't appear in the original. Click here to subscribe and get Grading for Growth in your email inbox, free, once a week.

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16,000 Shuttered Child Care Programs Push the Sector Closer to Collapse

ED Surge

Nearly 16,000 child care programs across 37 U.S. states have permanently closed since the pandemic began, representing a 9 percent decline in the total number of licensed child care providers, according to a new report published this month by Child Care Aware of America. Though perhaps less severe than some of the worst-case scenarios laid out in early 2020, the loss of thousands of providers reflects an ever-worsening crisis in the field of early care and education, accelerated by—but not origi

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Chicago Summer STEM Camps 2022

The Maker Mom

Is it possible that all those hours your child spends on their computer will lead to a lucrative career? With the right guidance, all that screen time may pay off! To help that process, we’re presenting 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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Student-Created PSAs Ignite Critical Thinking

Middle Web

Involving your students in creating public service announcements (PSAs) not only promotes media literacy, writes Frank Baker, it builds teamwork skills, energizes kids to conduct research into authentic social issues, and gives them opportunities to write with real purpose. The post Student-Created PSAs Ignite Critical Thinking first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Phineas Bates – STEM Field Trip (2.11.2022)

Northeastern University

Last Friday (February 11th) we had our first STEM field trip of the Winter/Spring semester. This time, we had a virtual field trip with two classes (~34 students) at the Phineas Bates Elementary School. This is our 5th consecutive year working with Ms. Hughes’ 4th graders – and was a blast, as usual. The 2.5 hour field trip was focused on engineering and the design process.

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How to Assess Inclusiveness in Teaching

ED Surge

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching? —Someone who wants to live out my values in practice There is a key difference between an educator saying they want to meet the needs of diverse learners and that instructor actually taking the actions

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Implementing Kid Spark Learning in Your 6th Grade STEM Curriculum

Kid Spark Education

Having opportunities for hands-on learning is essential for any 6th Grade STEM curriculum, which is why we’re so glad to be able to offer our STEM Pathways Lab to allow students entering Middle School to explore concepts in structural & mechanical engineering, physics, rapid prototyping & 3D printing, computer science, and robotics.

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3 Student Engagement Strategies for Your Classroom

STEM Education Works

Student engagement has been a topic of discussion for decades. As a former teacher, I hate to admit that even when I was in school I wasn’t engaged nearly as much as I should’ve been. As a student, I felt that my engagement wasn’t important to my grades, and instead, test scores were what mattered. . When I taught, I wanted to make sure my students didn’t feel that way.

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Global Urgency to Improve STEM Education

STEM Education Shopping

STEM education is very important and allows students to develop certain skills like complex problem-solving capacity, communication, and collaboration. There are many ways in which learning technologies influence students’ learning and engagement with STEM subjects. These STEM learning features varieties of technologies like online interactive lessons, augmented or virtual reality, digital gaming, and simulation.

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

ED Surge

It’s a tough time to be a teacher. They’re burned out , they’re demoralized , they’re facing hostility from parents , they’re not paid very well , and they’re either dreading or dreaming of a return to remote learning —a decision that most of them don’t have the power to control. Meanwhile, it’s a tough time to be a college student, too. Student loans are scary.

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2022 Summer Program Registration Now Open

Maydm

We are excited to announce that the registration for our summer 2022 programs is officially open! Starting today, you can sign up for our immersive summer programs using our new registration platform, Amilia. We appreciate your patience as we work through this new platform. To help make this transition easier, we have created some in depth instructions on how to create an account and navigate the platform.