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3 Tools to Help Develop the Talents in Every Kid

Middle Web

Rather than label just some kids talented, we need a new approach that serves all children, writes performance coach Lee Hancock. Among his strategies: embracing failure as progress, spending time in deep practice, and fostering in kids a love for their own special interests. The post 3 Tools to Help Develop the Talents in Every Kid first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Many Reasons Students Quit College

ED Surge

There are 36 million Americans who have earned some college credit, but not an actual degree. More colleges than ever are trying to help these students return to finish what they started. But so far, colleges are better at attracting these learners than helping them get across the finish line. Why is it so hard? What do these students want? What challenges do they face?

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Blackburn’s Best Advice for Beginning Teachers

Middle Web

Teaching guru Dr. Barbara Blackburn's MiddleWeb articles – often written with new and novice teachers in mind – are crisp, succinct, practical, filled with examples, and respectful of teachers' time and the challenges they face. We've gathered a dozen of her most popular posts. The post Blackburn’s Best Advice for Beginning Teachers first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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How to Showcase Your Skills when Applying for Your First Job

Ask a Tech Teacher

This article is for recent graduates, either from high school or college, ready to look for a first job. Here are some great tips on preparing your resume and spotlighting skills that will make you interesting to employers: You’ve been in school for the longest time, but you are now done with college, and it’s time to look for a new job.

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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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Online OCR- A Free Image to Text Converter

Educators Technology

Online OCR is a free picture to text converter that enables you to easily extract text and characters from digital images and scanned PDF documents including multiple page documents. Online OCR is easy to use and works right on your browser. No software download is required and you can even use it without registration. There are different ways to use Online OCR in education.

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The Future of EdTech

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. As a result, technostress has impacted teachers negatively. Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years.

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What You Might Have Missed in July–What’s up in August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of July: 9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day. Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans. 25 Websites for Lesson Planning. Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum. 40 Websites to Teach Keyboarding. EdTech’s Top Blogs to Follow–Yep, We’re On It. Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Digital Citizenship.

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Best Comic Maker Apps for Students

Educators Technology

The purpose of today's post is to share with you this collection of comic maker apps that you can use with kids and students to create and share comic strips. The apps are simple and easy to use and offer various features from access to pre-designed comic templates to the ability to convert images to cartoon illustrations. 1. Canva Canva is a great comic maker app to use with students.

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Relationships Matter in Student Affairs — But So Do Data and Strategy

ED Surge

I grew up as a self-described math and science nerd. I took Calculus I, II, and III in high school at the local college, and when I enrolled at the University of Virginia, my courses included honors chemistry and physics for physics majors—although I did not major in physics. As an achievement-minded young man, I “knew” that my worth was predicated on my grade-point average.

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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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The Origins of the Niagara Falls

STEMe

Jessup, MD. The history of the Niagara Falls goes all the way back to the end of the Ice Age. About 12,000 years ago, water cascaded from newly melted ice, forming what we know as the Niagara Falls. 12,000 years old is relatively young compared to other waterfalls, some dating back to 2.5 million years old. In what is now Lewiston, New York, the water spilled over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment.

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Subscriber Special: Great Deal on Coaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. August 2-7th: Coaching or Mentoring. BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free. Do any of these sound like you? Your kindergartners don’t know what ‘enter’, ‘spacebar’, ‘click’ or many other techie words mean but you need to teach them to keyboard, internet, and become digital citizens.

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Membean- A Good Vocabulary Website for Students

Educators Technology

Membean is a vocabulary website that provides differentiated and personalized vocabulary instruction to students of all ages and abilities including ELLs and students with dyslexia. Students are engaged in training sessions where they get introduced to new words that they learn using different pathways. Besides learning about the word's pronunciation, students also practice the new vocabulary through sample sentences, visual representations, explanations, and definitions.

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What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education

ED Surge

The fortunes of Online Program Management companies, or OPMs, are falling fast these days. These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. Wiley posted an 8 percent drop in university partner enrollment for its OPM segment, Pearson lost its biggest OPM customer (Arizona State University) and reported falling enrollments (1 percent) and revenue (2 percent), Coursera saw a 4 p

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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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13 holiday activities for teens

Futurum

13 holiday activities for teens. Tweet. Share. 0. Skype. Reddit. +1. Pinterest. 0. LinkedIn. 0. Email. Are you looking for activities to keep your teenager occupied this summer? With schools out for the summer, we have compiled a list of activities that students can do at home over the holidays, all with an educational theme. Numerous recent studies have highlighted the benefits of participation in extracurricular activities 1 , from higher educational attainment 2 to improved mental health 3 to

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8 Reasons to Attend the #NYCSchoolsTech Summit on August 17th in Manhattan

The Innovative Educator

Any New York City teacher can register to attend the 10th annual #NYCSchoolsTech Summit which will be back in-person on Wednesday, August 17 at LaGuardia High School in Manhattan. At the Summit, you’ll find dozens of thought-provoking sessions, hear best instructional practices, gain ed tech insights, learn about new technologies and strategies, and network with colleagues.

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MimioConnect – Now with More Features!

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The innovative MimioConnect ® blended learning platform has helped teachers deliver interactive lessons for students in both tradi tional classroom settings as well as those learning remotely. Now, MimioConnect has added new features to enhance collaboration and facilitate more seamless teaching and learning experiences.

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What a Homework Help Site’s Move to Host Open Educational Resources Could Mean

ED Surge

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. The company took over hosting some popular OER offerings hosted by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can make higher education more equitable.

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To boldly know what no one has known before

Futurum

To boldly know what no one has known before. Published: Dr Gail Zasowski is an astronomer based at the University of Utah in the US. Her research aims to understand more about the milky way, including its history, how it was formed and where its stars came from. The findings will teach us things that nobody has ever known before. TALK LIKE AN ASTRONOMER AND ASTROPHYSICIST.

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MiddleWeb’s Back to School Resources

Middle Web

What’s waiting for you on the other side of the door? Lots of excitement, a few nervous moments, and faces filled with questions. Welcome back! We've rounded up lots of useful resources for your first days. The post MiddleWeb’s Back to School Resources first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Science Behind The Stroop Effect

STEMe

WRITTEN BY MOHINI GOSWAMI. The Stroop Effect is a famous paradigm and phenomenon used in both experimental and clinical psychology. It shows the delay in reaction time between incongruent and congruent stimuli. Congruence is when the meaning and the color of the word are identical. For example, the word “green” is written in the color green. Incongruence is when the meaning of the word and the color are different.

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Aug 3, Non Terminating Repeating Decimal

Online Math for All

Non Terminating Repeating Decimal - Concept - Examples

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Why Do Whales Migrate?

Smore Science

Table of Contents. Why do whales migrate? Every year, most whales swim from one part of the world to another and back again. Swimming takes up a lot of energy, so why would these aquatic creatures undertake such a journey? Here, we will learn a little bit more about these impressive globetrotters (or globeswimmers!). What are the motivations for long-distance movement?

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Teamwork with STEM

Get Caught Engineering

Team building. One of the over-arching goals of any STEM program is for students to improve communication and problem-solving skills, as well as to hone their ability to work with other students. In short – how to be part of a team. By the time students are in 3 rd or 4 th grade, we begin to expect them to be able to work cooperatively with their peers in small groups.

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Importance of Carbon Dating in Archaeology

STEMe

Katy, TX You've probably come across news reports about fascinating ancient artefacts: found all around the world. Have you ever wondered how archaeologists dated these priceless and ancient artefacts? They all use a popular technique known as radiocarbon dating. This technique uses the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon, to determine the age of an object.

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Aug 2, Recurring Decimals to Fractions

Online Math for All

Recurring Decimals to Fractions - Concept - Examples

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The Mineral That Shaped Human History

Smore Science

Did you know that a mineral you eat every day was once so rare, it was worth its weight in gold? Wish you lived in those days? Think again. Wars were fought over it, people were enslaved to mine it, and thousands died without it. Is your salt shaker worth that much to you? Today salt is so common it’s in everyone’s home, but in the past salt was hard to get.

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Aligning How You Lead with Who You Are

Middle Web

Engaging with What’s Your Leadership Story? by Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista will help leaders – especially newer ones – articulate their purpose and bring their whole selves to school each day. School leader Sarah Cooper appreciates the book’s practical honesty. The post Aligning How You Lead with Who You Are first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Hidden Worlds and Studies: Astrobiology

STEMe

– New York, NY The question of whether extraterrestrial life exists in the universe or not has long been debated. The Ancient Greeks believed that more life existed outside of Earth, but had no forms of technology to investigate further. Beginning in the 20th century, research into this question began to be taken more seriously as discoveries of what surrounds Earth were made.

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Aug 1, Customary Units of Time

Online Math for All

Customary Units of Time - Concept - Solved Problems

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DIY: Make Your Own Vibrating Pen

Smore Science

A vibrating pen is a specially modified pen that makes all of your straight lines loopy. All that it takes to make one is to attach a vibrating motor and battery to a normal pen. In case you didn’t already know, a vibrating motor is just a normal motor with an off-centered weight attached to it which makes it shake. As the motor shakes it causes the pen to shake along with it and this creates the curvy lines.

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A Deep Dive into How Learning Works

Middle Web

In How Learning Works: A Playbook education researchers John Almarode, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey offer teaching and learning strategies that can help students grow into independent learners. Education consultant Anne Anderson shares some highlights from her deep dive. The post A Deep Dive into How Learning Works first appeared on MiddleWeb.