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The 5 competencies of digital citizenship

Ask a Tech Teacher

#ISTE had an interesting discussion on how to foster digital citizenship in schools. This is especially critical because students are spending so much more time than ever before online. Here’s a peak at their conversation and then a link to the rest: The 5 competencies of digital citizenship. If you think teaching digital citizenship is all about warnings and recriminations, you might be doing it wrong.

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GoFormative Full Tutorial for Teachers

Educators Technology

GoFormative is an educational platform that allows teachers to create various types of assignments that students can interact with in real time and across different devices. Teachers can view.read more.

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Winter STEM Guide

How to STEM

Welcome to the Winter 2021/22 edition of our seasonal STEM guides! It contains: STEM related winter events and themed days/weeks Quick, easy website and activity suggestions for how to get involved (click on the pictures to find out more) Wintery STEM resource recommendations. Diaries at the ready! The events listed below are a really good way to help theme your STEM activities and help children to make real-world links.

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STEM Electives: What We Wish Educators Knew

Thimble

How Can Your School Think Outside The Box When It Comes to Taking Full Advantage of STEM Electives? STEM learning has exploded to the forefront… The post STEM Electives: What We Wish Educators Knew appeared first on Thimble Online STEM Classes.

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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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International Education During the Pandemic

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, a passionate educational consultant for T4Edtech, traveled to Italy and surrounding areas and has some interesting insights into their education efforts during the pandemic: From An Italian Train: Education during the Pandemic. I recently returned from a long-awaited trip to Italy in which I spent a considerable amount of time traveling throughout the Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio provinces.

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Helping Students Explore CTE Programs

Teach Hub

If you have been in education for a while, especially secondary education, you might have heard the phrase “not everyone is going to go to college.” This is true for various reasons that range from affordability to desire to opportunity. Over the past two or three decades, public education has improved its ability to graduate students who are career-ready in addition to students who are college-ready.

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Science for the Next Generation: Preparing for the New Standards

Know Adam's Blog

Educational leaders often speak about preparing the “next generation” for the future. In the years ahead, the next generation will work in jobs that are just emerging or don’t yet exist and will face challenges we can only theorize on today. While leaders often pay lip service to “investing” in the next generation, only one content area explicitly states that the next generation?

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New Teachers–From Pandemic to the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is a great article for new teachers who might not have seen the traditional classroom experience. One teacher offers tips to help new starters who did their training in lockdown to feel at home in their classroom: New Teachers: 10 Ways to Claim Your Classroom Space. The first terms as an early career teacher are daunting: and it can be a while until you feel completely settled in your new role.

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Mental Math STEM Games- Prison Break

Starfish Education

About Prison Break The Mental Math STEM Games for Struggling Students series helps kids sharpen their math skills and strengthen their critical reasoning skills in a fun environment. Prison Break. The post Mental Math STEM Games- Prison Break appeared first on Starfish Education.

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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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How to Best Help Students Hard of Hearing

Teach Hub

Challenges are present daily in schools, and students with specific learning disabilities experience many different challenges in addition to those a general learner faces. Deaf and hard of hearing students can find themselves in learning environments that are not conducive to their needs, therefore, creating a struggle in learning. This can become frustrating and overwhelming for students that are hard of hearing, giving them a feeling of defeat rather than a feeling of optimism.

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Projector Screen

Technology Tidbits

Projector Screen is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works. I highly recommend checking out Projector Screen Store by clicking here !!! *Projector Screen is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

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An Update on Digital Storytelling

Ask a Tech Teacher

An Exercise in Digital Storytelling. To engage my 11th-grade English students during the 2020–21 school year, I created a digital storytelling unit. Whether they attended school in person or remotely, it was a success. Students were able to explore various frames of reference, identify a personal story to share using digital media, and experience empathy throughout the process.

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Top 7 Fidget Toys For Skin Picking (Dermatillomania) 2022

Stem Geek

For a long time, skin picking has been viewed as little more than a bad habit. But as we learn more about the human brain and its various quirks, it’s become abundantly clear that skin. The post Top 7 Fidget Toys For Skin Picking (Dermatillomania) 2022 appeared first on STEM Geek.

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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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How to Show Gratitude

Teach Hub

What is Gratitude? Gratitude is a spontaneous feeling, but increasingly, research demonstrates its value as a practice—that is, making conscious efforts to count one’s blessings, according to Psychology Today. In the school setting, gratitude can keep teachers going. A simple “thank you for what you do,” “Is there anything I can help you with in your classroom,” or “I recognize your hard work and it is appreciated,” can go a long way and change the culture and morale of any building.

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Building with a Candy Cane

Teachers are Terrific

Build a structure with a candy cane sounds like one of those wacky STEM Challenges I have invented! #right. Well, this one came about because I grabbed some boxes of candy canes at a really low price and then had to decide what to do with them. I thought about it briefly and then had a great brain pop! At first, I was thinking of giving each team 5 or so candy canes, but I decided that was not going to be cost-effective for me.

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16 Sites, 3 Apps, 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them: Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app). Canadian Thanksgiving. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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Free Resources for Hour of Code™

Carly and Adam

The following is a guest post from Kiki Prottsman. How Will You Celebrate CSEd Week? It’s almost here! Computer Science Education Week happens the second week of December each year, and this year is going to be more exciting than ever. If you’ve never heard of CSEd Week, it’s a seven-day period where educators bring a piece of computer science or coding into other areas of student life.

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Exploring the Chemistry of Thanksgiving Food

Teach Hub

“What’s for dinner?” is a timeless question around the world. Around this time of year, Thanksgiving causes us to be more curious about “what’s for dinner?” because we get the opportunity to eat foods that are meaningful or exciting to us. Foods we enjoy during the holiday includes personal and family favorites, traditional dishes, and everything from sweet to savory.

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Describing motion from position-time graphs

Jacobs Physics

The position-time graph to the right represents the motion of a cart on a track. The motion detector points to the left. Explain how to reproduce this graph. When describing motion, students only need to address two elements: a. Which way is the cart moving? b. Is the cart speeding up or slowing down? Yet, students trying to answer this question will tie themselves in knots addressing how the cart is "accelerating", trying to use words like displacement, velocity, vector, negative, positive, etc

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Thimble Federal Funding Guide for Public Schools

Thimble

Funding for Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) Thimble is a grade 4-12 standards-aligned and hands-on curriculum that teaches students science, engineering, robotics, and coding through… The post Thimble Federal Funding Guide for Public Schools appeared first on Thimble Online STEM Classes.

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Direct Instruction and Inquiry-Based Learning

Ellipsis Education

Stephanie Bennett Sr. Curriculum Development Specialist. Katie Baird Manager, Content Marketing Albert Einstein once said, “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” As you’ll read later, there is no one right way to go about this. That being said, education research communities have been fascinated by various models of instruction.

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4 Ways to Differentiate a STEM Challenge

Carly and Adam

The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk. STEM challenges aren’t meant to be “one size fits all.” There are different takes on challenges which can include new and different variations. Whether you are looking for a new challenge to try or need a few ways to differentiate a challenge that you are planning to do, this post will share four strategies to help you along the way!

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Five Christmas Books as an Inspiration for Holiday STEM Activities

Science and Steamteam

There are so many Christmas books that make wonderful read-alouds. Read-aloud time was always my favorite time of the teaching day. I loved that kids could sit on the rug with me, relax, and just listen. Of course, we always had some sort of discussion, but the children never thought of it as work. Christmas Books to Read Aloud. Here are a few of my favorite Christmas stories to read aloud, along with suggestions for some fun STEM activities.

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Rates of Reaction for Beginners-Chemistry

MooMoo Math & Science

In order for a chemical reaction to occur, there must be enough energy to break the bonds that hold the particles together in a molecule. The speed at which new particles form is called the rate of reaction. Before a skateboard will move energy must be applied to cause the skateboard to move. In a similar manner, a chemical reaction must also have a boost in energy in order to get the reaction to occur This boost of energy is called activation energy and is the least amount of energy needed in o

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Near-Viral Videos to Start Students on Cybersecurity Career Paths

Start-Engineering

Eric Iversen. The need abides Millions of unfilled jobs around the world. An urgent national security problem. Schools, companies, and families all under a steady threat of online attack or exploitation from unexpected directions. Cybersecurity sits at the center of all these issues , generating headlines and headaches every day. Rapid, challenging change afoot Cybersecurity is also an opportunity, though, as a career option for students from almost any background with almost any set of interest

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Comic Strip Maker

Technology Tidbits

Comic Strip Maker is an excellent online comic strip creator that reminds me of Comic Life. This is a simple tool to use that lets users, select their background, add text/speech bubbles, add stickers, and much more to create a digital comic. Best of all, educators can use this for project based learning and integrating digital storytelling into their classroom.

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Pathway To STEM Final Presentations

Northeastern University

After 8 weeks our virtual after school program, Pathways To STEM, will be concluding with the last sessions occurring on Tuesday November 16th and Thursday November 18th. Tuesdays presentation will be given by Professor Ruobing Bai, a professor in the Mechanical and Industrial department, presenting on Soft Materials and Soft Machine. On Thursday Professor Adrian Feiguin, a professor in the department of Physics will be talking about The Spooky World of Quantum Mechanics.

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How to Find an Endpoint

Basic-Mathematics

Learn to find an endpoint using the midpoint of a segment with this lesson