Middle Web
MARCH 27, 2022
What promises do we need to make (and keep) so that our students will truly believe they belong in our classrooms and will be safe and cared for there? Education leaders Laurie Barron and Patti Kinney break down the 25 promises they feel have the most impact. The post Students Need Us to Keep These 25 Promises first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 28, 2022
A lot of teachers are also authors. In an effort to spotlight their two hats, I feature teacher-authors on both my writing and education blogs. Guests can write about any topic they’d like as long as it revolves around those skills. Today, I’d like to introduce Anne Clare, a teacher as well as a historical fiction author. Anne Clare is a native of Minnesota’s cornfields and dairy country.
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ED Surge
MARCH 30, 2022
Just before her 16th birthday, Cara Rothrock got her first job working at a 1950s roadside restaurant and ice cream stand, only a few miles from her parents’ house in a small town in Floyd County, Indiana. She poured soft serve. She cooked burgers and fries. She cleaned counters and took orders and ran food out to customers seated at picnic tables. All behind the glow of a bright, neon-lit parrot and a sign that read, “Polly’s Freeze.
Educators Technology
MARCH 31, 2022
Games are inherently inviting! They tend to drive players motivation and keep them focused for a prolonged period of time without them feeling bored. So what is it that makes games motivating? In his.read more.
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.
User Generated Education
MARCH 30, 2022
My gifted students, grades 4th-6th, selected Artificial Intelligence, as their elective during Spring, 2022 semester. (For more about this see Offering Electives to Elementary Students.) The chatbot learning activities I describe below are part of their larger Artificial Intelligence elective.Here is another. The Hook. Learners try out the following chatbot: [link].
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ED Surge
APRIL 1, 2022
In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. I was lucky enough to attend the inaugural ASU GSV back in 2010 in Tempe, Arizona. It was a modest two-day affair: maybe 350 attendees in sweaty overcrowded rooms, a few speeches by CEOs and academics.
Educators Technology
MARCH 26, 2022
MobyMax is a learning platform that provides educational resources for students in Kindergarten through grade 8. These resources cover different school subjects including literacy, math, science,read more.
Robot Lab
MARCH 31, 2022
RobotLAB is so excited to announce that the VR Expeditions 2.0 app is the Cool Tool 2022 winner by the EdTech Awards u nder the AR/VR solution category! RobotLAB VR Expeditions 2.0™ is inspired by the great work Google did, and following feedback from thousands of educators, RobotLAB created a VR tool tailored to educators’ needs.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 31, 2022
March 31st is called World Backup Day. At least once a year, backup your data files to an external drive (like a flash drive). This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. It’s good to always backup data to cloud drives or a different drive on your computer but once a year, do the entire collection of data files to what is called an ‘air gap’ drive–one that is separated from any internet connection.
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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.
ED Surge
APRIL 1, 2022
“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. Through his current role, his experience teaching middle school science for over a decade and his work teaching future educators as an adjunct professor at East Tennessee State University, Bowen sees this as a glaring need across the educational landscape.
Educators Technology
MARCH 27, 2022
Kids, I believe, are artists by default. They take a special and often creative interest in the world around them. They are in a constant quest to explore their surroundings and understand its.
Smore Science
MARCH 31, 2022
NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest , a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency’s Artemis missions. Contestants were charged with designing a robot that can dig and move lunar soil, or regolith, from one area of the lunar South Pole to a holding container near a future Artemis Moon base. Fifteen-year-old Shriya Sawant of Cumming, Georgia, was the winner from grades 6-12 with her RAD: Regolith Accretion Device design.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 1, 2022
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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!
ED Surge
MARCH 30, 2022
The cost of college keeps climbing, and schools these days are considering all kinds of innovative options to keep costs low. But one liberal-arts college recently announced a radical new approach that does away with the idea of tuition altogether and instead counts on something else: gratitude. The school in question is Hope College in Michigan, and here’s the idea: give students a college education for free and hope that they will pay it all back in donations in the course of their lifetimes.
STEMx
MARCH 30, 2022
Q: How is the program designed? The program is designed to be a system in which schools/districts opt-in and pay a one-time fee, which covers the cost of the curriculum. Each year districts pay a per student fee that covers the refurbishment and shipping of the kits. The kits ship to the teacher, they use them for 9-10 weeks, they pack them up, ship them back to us and then we ship them the next kit.
EiE Blog
MARCH 29, 2022
We asked the expert educators who make up our group of EiE Ambassadors what they think the top education trends for this year are and what resources they’re looking for to help promote STEM learning for their students. We think their insight would be helpful for everyone, as well as the resources we suggested for their classrooms!
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 29, 2022
When kids read that America’s $30 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. Do they understand the consequences of unbalanced budgets? The quandary of infinite wants vs. finite dollars? Or do they think money grows on some fiscal tree that always blooms?
ED Surge
MARCH 28, 2022
Many colleges claim to help students find good jobs—but Texas State Technical College takes that to a new level. The multi-campus community college has a unique mission and funding structure. It’s not designed to help students study the liberal arts or transfer to four-year universities; instead, it prepares people to work as power linemen and dental hygienists.
Smore Science
MARCH 29, 2022
Having a cold is no fun, your throat feels scratchy, your nose gets runny, and you seem to be sneezing every few minutes. In space, having a cold is even worse! In 1968, NASA’s Apollo 7 spacecraft blasted off with a three-person crew aboard. Just 15 hours into the mission, astronaut Wally Schirra caught a cold. The other two members of the crew were quickly infected.
STEM Discovery
MARCH 28, 2022
Many times, when STEM professionals go back to school in order to share their professional experience, they focus on the characteristics of their work, their everyday routine or the skills they have learned to carry out their work. But, it … Continue reading → The post Meet a Phylogenetic Plant Ecologist Researcher appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.
Career in STEM
MARCH 29, 2022
Looking for some fun Earth Day STEM Activities that students can do from home or in class? Check out this list of five fun STEM activities for Earth Day – all 15% off every Wednesday in April! Sustainability Analyst Challenge: The Sustainability STEM Challenge is a self-guided distance learning mini course for teens to learn what a sustainability analyst does, and test drive the career through fun online activities. 5 Sustainability Methods You Never Knew Existed Mini Research Project: In this l
ED Surge
MARCH 28, 2022
Regularly I run into our students making Tik Tok videos in school stairwells. I often jump in, but that’s a different article for another day. I’ve come to learn that these videos are complicated, skillful endeavors that require multiple takes, and sometimes, over an hour to edit. Influencer and digital strategist, Casie Stewart , notes that the act of posting, which seems simple in thought, actually requires camera work, graphic design, or copywriting to create the content itself.
Get Caught Engineering
MARCH 26, 2022
How Does Your Garden Grow? Exploring Plants with Children. Using plants to teach STEM is one of the great joys of the arrival of spring. These garden-related learning experiences offer practical connections to a wide range of science teaching objectives and curricular standards. Although these lessons are seen as a typical science lesson, we’ve found ample opportunities to integrate engineering in the lessons.
Carly and Adam
MARCH 29, 2022
The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk. What exactly is STEM? To some, it may seem just a step up from arts and crafts. Maybe a colleague or administrator visits your STEM classroom and has some questions, objections, or misconceptions about what they see. STEM and crafts are both hands-on in nature, but STEM is much, much more! While STEM and crafts may have a few similarities, they are very different.
Know Adam's Blog
MARCH 29, 2022
Key Learning Objectives: What Makes a Complete Conclusion. How You Set Up Debriefing and Sharing Conclusions Matters. Tools: Motivation and Using Checkpoints and Concept Maps to Debrief Thinking. The focus of this article is on forming CER conclusions and debriefing in NGSS science – the fifth and last step in the KnowAtom lesson routine and an important way to finish each lesson.
ED Surge
MARCH 31, 2022
We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. Growing student debt, declining college enrollment, faculty layoffs and department closures, to name a few. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.
Starfish Education
MARCH 30, 2022
Over the past month, kids and coaches voted on the kind of game they wanted to play for this year’s EPIC STEM Challenge. If you don’t know EPIC, you’re missing. The post Announcing our 2022 EPIC Game! appeared first on Starfish Education.
Box Light
MARCH 29, 2022
The MimioSTEM Mobile is headed to a school or education event near you! What is it? We at Boxlight want to showcase our award-winning STEM solutions like MyStemKits , Robo 3D printers , and Mimio MyBot robots with an interactive experience in which educators will go on a Mission to Mars!
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