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Over 200 Free Google Slides and PowerPoint's Templates to Use in Your Presentations

Educators Technology

SlidesMania is a platform that provides access to a wide variety of pre-made templates that you can use on your Google Slides and PowerPoint. I have spent sometime going through its content and.read more.

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We Landed on the Moon July 20 1969

Ask a Tech Teacher

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to place foot on the moon. Commemorate that this year with an exciting collection of websites and apps that take your students to the Moon. Here are some you’ll like: Apollo 11: Countdown to Launch via Google Earth. Apollo 11 VR. Google Moon –see the Moon in 3D with your Google Earth app.

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Anti-Racist Activities for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students

User Generated Education

I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. When you’re essentially [teaching] a kid to be anti-racist, you’re deliberately encouraging them to talk about race and Racism. You’re deliberately teaching them that all the racial groups are equals. You’re deliberately showing them, yes, there are different colors and there are different cultures.

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85-Increasing Social and Emotional Learning Through STEM

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

85-Increasing Social and Emotional Learning Through STEM The social and emotional components in learning are such an important part of the whole child. Today Claire Meschkat from Vivify STEM and I sit down to talk about how to cover these important SEL elements through STEM instruction. I hope you will join us. Links Mentioned in the Show: 82: The Magic of Hands-On Integrated Units in the Classroom 83: How to Engage Students Online and How to Ensure Equal Access 84: How to Add More Science Into

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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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Here Is A Good Tool to Help You Remove Backgrounds from Your Videos

Educators Technology

Unscreen is a good web tool that allows you to easily remove backgrounds from videos. The process is simple and easy: upload your video to Unscreen and click to convert it to a background-free.read more.

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Do you need a fancy microphone to deliver remote lessons or CPD?

Fiendishly Clever

I was delivering CPD online for STEM learning and one of my delegates told me the sound was a little quiet. I had not had a delegate mention this before, so I fiddled with some settings and went away to do some investigating (what we scientists do best!) I had been using a very good … Continue reading "Do you need a fancy microphone to deliver remote lessons or CPD?".

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Teacher Interview – School District Implements Hybrid Teaching and Learning 

CTE Learning

COVID-19 disrupted the 2019-2020 school year in a major way. When schools began to shut down, teachers, administrators, parents and students were left scrambling to figure out what the rest of the spring would look like. Read about how one teacher utilized his 14-year relationship with CTeLearning to easily transition his classes to hybrid teaching and hybrid learning , keeping his students on the path to success.

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CurrikiStudio

Technology Tidbits

CurrikiStudio is a wonderful learning suite of tools that lets educators seamlessly create interactive learning experiences. This is done by creating a playlist of learning objectives, choose from over 40 learning activities, add multimedia content, and then share w/ others/students. Also, CurrikiStudio is ideal for integrating project based learning and blended learning into any classroom.

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Try This at Home: How to Make Invisible Ink

ED Week

In this third experiment, teacher Jonte Lee teaches students how to make invisible using ingredients that can be found around the home.

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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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Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-12 Tech Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norm