EiE Blog
APRIL 7, 2022
April 4th - 10th is National Robotics Week , dedicated to celebrating the incredible technologies that improve our lives. Some of the most popular robots are vacuum cleaners and kitchen gadgets, but we also have robots which are used to cut the lawn, clean the bottom of the pool and help our doctors save lives!
ED Surge
APRIL 4, 2022
Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. Because my work as CEO of the national Breakthrough Collaborative involves middle-schoolers with college aspirations and college students who aspire to become advocates and teachers, I’m always inclined to take the optimistic view.
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Love Learning STEM
APRIL 3, 2022
5 easy Easter science experiments you need to try! It’s Easter time, and it may also be test prep season at your school. The best way to incorporate the two, and have good substantial science activities is by infusing some good content into the mix. One of my least favorite things is wasting time with useless science experiments, stem challenges, and lessons that are seemingly fun but don’t address any of the learning goals or standards my students need.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 8, 2022
I know from personal experience that tech teachers are in short supply. It’s not unusual for a school to transfer the PE teacher or 2nd grade teacher into the Tech Teacher job because they can’t find anyone else for that position. ZDNet has a great article addressing the subject: How to get into tech as a teacher. Tech careers are in high demand.
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.
Cool Cat Teacher
APRIL 5, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Educators Technology
APRIL 2, 2022
i-Ready is an online instruction and assessment platform that covers reading and mathematics. As a teacher, you can use i-Ready to identify students learning needs, provide differentiated.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 7, 2022
This is such a great article on the benefits of bi-lingual education. Sure, we intuitively know what these are, but what are the real metrics? From an educator with a passion for her calling, see if you have any reasons you’d add: 4 Long-Term Benefits of Bilingual Education. Raising bilingual children is the norm in Singapore. From an early age, the children living in this multicultural city are exposed to a number of languages at home, in their preschools, and in their communities.
Cool Cat Teacher
APRIL 4, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For those of you who want to go on virtual museum tours, the Museums for Digital Learning may have the perfect answer for you. The list of museums is long and growing and is a joy to see. For years, as educators, we've had to cobble together our own resources. But, now, we have museum-created resources around topics and objects.
ED Surge
APRIL 6, 2022
While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. But if they want to thrive, both groups might need to learn to meet each other’s gaze.
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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.
Educators Technology
APRIL 6, 2022
Bedtime stories are stories to entertain, amuse, and, of course, educate kids. Whether it is a classic, a fable, a fairy tale, stories have an inherently captivating power, one that opens the door of.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 6, 2022
Preparing students for college or career is arguably the biggest goal for High School. I like the focus of this particular principal, spotlighted in an article in The 74 Million : Principal’s View: To Prepare Students to Enter a Tech-Focused Business World, Create Schools With the Workplace in Mind. Consider the world students face when they graduate.
CTE Learning
APRIL 8, 2022
Do you remember that first time you ever competed? You may have won, or you may have lost. Either way, you learned something about yourself and the value of preparation. Nobody gives you the win. You earn it. . CTeLearning is proud to announce its participation in a new virtual competition model in partnership with the Web Professionals Organization. .
ED Surge
APRIL 8, 2022
As the United States emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, workers around the country are leaving their jobs at record rates. Mid-career employees between the ages of 30 and 45 feature disproportionately in what’s been dubbed the “Great Resignation.” Researchers say this is in response to stagnant wages amid ever-steeper workloads and the changes in earning potential that follow the ebbs and flows of the U.S. labor market.
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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!
Educators Technology
APRIL 3, 2022
Updated in April 2022 Looking for ways to create custom storyboard templates to use with your students in class? This lesson from Applied Digital Skills (by Google for Education) has you.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 4, 2022
National Library Week is April 3-9, 2022. It allows us to promote our local libraries and their workers. Find more about here at the American Library Association. Because I know most of you online only, I thought I’d share my favorite online libraries with you: For Children. Aesop for Children –collection of fables. Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.
STEM Education Guide
APRIL 5, 2022
STEM skills don’t have to stay in the lab. STEM students learn valuable skills that they can use in their everyday lives. STEM is the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The reason that these disciplines are grouped together is that they share certain qualities. This means that through STEM education, students acquire certain skills that help them navigate and excel at these subjects.
ED Surge
APRIL 4, 2022
With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. Until very recently, data available to the public about liberal arts graduates’ salaries and industries were relatively limited.
Box Light
APRIL 5, 2022
Elisabeth McClure, Gifted Specialist with the Northwest School District (House Springs, MO), recently completed a months-long project that originated with identifying real-life problems in their community. The goal of the project was to help her students envision themselves as part of the creative solution process, as well as spark their interest in community-related issues they can take an active role in solving.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 5, 2022
Here are the most-read posts for the month of March. Social Media or COVID: Which is more dangerous to students? 5 (free) Posters about Learning. Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring. Guiding Students through the Crisis in Ukraine. A Lesson Plan for Addressing What’s in the News. Invention Convention is coming. Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day.
Defined Learning
APRIL 5, 2022
Spring presents a great time to explore new ideas or try some new tools, especially as we look to boost student engagement with the content and keep up the momentum. As we start to wind down this school year, we have plenty of time to explore new ideas and remember to stay focused on our true purpose: how to best prepare students for the future. While we may not know exactly what types of jobs will exist or the interests of our students, what we do know is that students will need a variety of sk
ED Surge
APRIL 4, 2022
Spread across more than 40 individual buildings, Rockford Public Schools is the third largest school district in Illinois. As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. After 22 years as a classroom teacher, plus time spent as an instructional coach and curriculum designer, Uram took on this new position just three years ago, when i
Box Light
APRIL 4, 2022
The maker movement has increased in popularity, including in schools where hands-on activities and lessons have become an essential strategy for learning. Schools across the country have successfully created and maintained dynamic makerspaces to spark student imagination and creative thinking as well as curiosity in learning more about STEM-related topics.
Scientix
APRIL 4, 2022
Green Behavior Code is an eTwinning project that involves 4 countries (Spain, Italy, Romania and Tunisia), 105 students and 4 teachers. We aim to make pupils aware that our behaviors affect deeply and irreparably the environment. They need to think about alternative behaviors, more environmentally-conscious. In this project, pupils focus on the environmental problems and risks they encounter in their countries, and compare them with students from partner countries using online collaborative tool
Online Math for All
APRIL 5, 2022
Polygon Angle Calculator - Find the measure of each interior angle and more of a regular polygon in just a click
ED Surge
APRIL 6, 2022
What should teenagers do after high school? With rising college tuition expenses and overwhelming student loan debt, there’s a debate underway about whether college or job training is the right path for young people who face financial barriers and other challenges. But educators, policymakers and employers who are busy redesigning postsecondary options don’t always understand what teenagers actually need and want.
Box Light
APRIL 7, 2022
About the Author: Meredith Williams, an 8 th grade science teacher at Freedom Middle School (Orlando, FL), specializes in integrating MimioSTEM solutions in her science instruction. To encourage her students to think critically and creatively about problems through science exploration, Williams incorporates a variety of 3D-printed manipulatives, so her students have something hands-on to observe, analyze, and form ideas around.
Middle Web
APRIL 3, 2022
Culturally responsive and sustaining teaching needs to underlie and guide all our classroom practices, write Ferlazzo and Sypnieski. When we validate the cultural learning tools that diverse learners bring, we can leverage them to produce positive outcomes for all students. The post Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching first appeared on MiddleWeb.
User Generated Education
APRIL 4, 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 Generative AI learning activities I describe below are part of their larger Artificial Intelligence elective as well as being part of the ISTE AI Explorations course I am taking.
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