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How to Raise a Computer-Savvy Generation

Ask a Tech Teacher

Raising computer-savvy children is complicated, whether you are a geek or a luddite. If you don’t pay attention, they teach themselves and not always the right way. Guiding kids through foundational steps and then building on them so students enjoy using technology for more than games and simulations is the goal. We as teachers and parents want them to value tech as a tool that enables them to dig into raw data (not someone’s interpretation of it), get answers to questions when they

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Is Hybrid Learning Here to Stay in Higher Ed?

ED Surge

A new study says college students may prefer the flexibility of hybrid classes—but that doesn’t mean they want to leave campus. Holly Burns, for instance, long dreamed of attending the University of California at Berkeley. She took some intro-level courses at her local community college, and when she applied in 2018, she couldn’t believe she was accepted.

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3 Steps to Launching PBL at Your School

Defined Learning

Starting anything new can be a daunting task, particularly for a school site administrator. But, when starting a new instructional focus that requires training, buy-in, follow-through, and follow-up, well now that can be even more challenging. This is what I found to be the case as my school site embarked on implementing Project/Problem-Based Learning this school year.

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Best Online Classroom Timers to Use with Students

Educators Technology

Online classroom timers are web-based tools to use in your class to measure time. These tools have a number of pedagogical benefits. Using timers with students will absolutely help them develop an.read more.

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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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Music for Armed Forces Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

Many Americans celebrate Armed Forces Day annually on the third Saturday of May. It is a day to pay tribute to men and women who serve the United States’ armed forces. Armed Forces Day is also part of Armed Forces Week, which begins on the second Saturday of May. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Did you know you can use a live translator app in PTA meetings, parent teacher conferences, and presentations — that actually works? Did you know there is a tool that will translate your parent newsletters? How about one that parents can use to translate homework so they can help their children?

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Best Teacher Planners to Help with Your Teaching

Educators Technology

Following requests from multiple readers, I went ahead and curated for you what I think are some of the best teacher planners in Amazon. There are numerous web tools that you can use to create your.read more.

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12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

I posted this a few years ago, skipped the topic with all the craziness of the pandemic, and am updating it this year in articles about how to wrap up your school year.: Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if not done right — can mean big problems when you return from summer vacation.

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New Research Looks for Better Ways for Schools to Recruit Teachers of Color

ED Surge

America is getting increasingly diverse. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. Over the past two years, the nonprofit Digital Promise has been leading research into why schools have found it difficult to recruit and retain teachers of color—and to try to work with teachers of color in districts around the country to find new approaches that work better.

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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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Teach CS in K-12? Please Help Gather Data

Computer Science Teacher

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the United States. The CS education landscape continues to evolve, and we want to hear directly from teachers about your experiences, challenges, and what resources would be most useful to you at this time. Having detailed and current information allows policymakers, curriculum & PD providers, State Departments of Education, membership associations, and other org

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What is Mood Meter and How to Use It to Boost Kids Emotional Intelligence?

Educators Technology

Mood Meter is a tool from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence that helps students (and everyone else) boost their emotional intelligence (EQ) through developing self-awareness and.read more.

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Subscriber Special: Discount Summer Tech Camp

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. May 9-11th. Summer Tech Camp Survival Kit. From Ask a Tech Teacher. Are you teaching a Summer Tech Camp to Kids? We have the solution: Build Your Own Adventure. $230 value for $179. This is not training for you (you can find Teacher Training options here ).

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Forget Unpaid Internships. Instead, Colleges Should Offer Work-Based Courses.

ED Surge

What if students could earn work experience, wages and university credits at the same time? Sounds too good to be true? Not really. Colleges have already come up with a model for this by offering work-based courses , which pair students with businesses and other organizations to solve real-world problems. With COVID-19 normalizing remote work, creating this kind of program is easier than ever.

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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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Adapting Interactive Content for Mobile Learning

Magic EdTech

With immersive learning, understanding the expected outcomes is crucial to learner success. There are little-to-no standardized plans of action when it comes to designing and developing interactive content for multiple platforms. As a result, it’s important to envision the deliverable content as well as the mode of delivery. A clear plan of action is imperative in deciding the overall design outline of the content for a better user experience.

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CodeCombat Helps Students Learn Coding Through Role Playing Game Adventures

Educators Technology

CodeCombat is a learning website that offers role-playing game adventures and gamified lessons to help students of all ages and skill levels learn coding and computer science from the basics up to.read more.

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Tech Tip #147: 5 Ways to Involve Parents

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: 5 Tips to Involve Parents. Category: Parents, Classroom Management.

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A Virtual Lab- based learning activity aimed at the Rs framework’s comprehension

STEM Discovery

Are you looking for a catching activity to introduce your students to the principles of the 3Rs – Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement of animal use for scientific purposes?Would you like to engage them in exploring humane experimentation and the welfare … Continue reading → The post A Virtual Lab- based learning activity aimed at the Rs framework’s comprehension appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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3 Top Tips for Science Stations Success

The Science Penguin

New to using stations and centers? Not sure if science stations are right for your students? Worry that groups are too large? Wondering what to do with students at different skill levels? Not sure about the mess and organization? We can help! Here are our 3 TOP TIPS and solutions to common problems. Problem: Groups are too large for everyone to have access to the materials.

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Top STEM Programs for Girls

Career in STEM

“We need to encourage and support girls and women achieve their full potential as scientific researchers and innovators.” — UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. Women are vastly underrepresented in STEM careers around the world. According to a United Nations study conducted in 14 countries, only 18% percent of science degrees earned are by women, compared with 37% by male students. “In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls

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Every Student Needs to Know How to Factcheck

Middle Web

How do we help students question and verify what they read? It’s not that hard to check things out, writes media literacy expert Frank Baker, but teachers tell him many students today “won’t take the time to do even a cursory investigation.” Baker offers some teaching ideas. The post Every Student Needs to Know How to Factcheck first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ROUTE STEM-FAST GOING LANDSAIL

STEM Discovery

OBJECTIVE: To design the fastest sailing sailboat to represent her/his school in the Land Sailing tournament. Grade: Primary School 2nd GradeLesson Duration: 10 Lessons STUDENT OUTCOMESHB.2.6.4. It contributes to the recycling of consumed materials.HB.2.4.1. Categorizes the types and means of … Continue reading → The post ROUTE STEM-FAST GOING LANDSAIL appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Prestigious Independent School Implements Interactive Technology Solution

Box Light

As part of its ongoing commitment to educational excellence, the prestigious Bury Grammar School (Lancashire, UK) began a major overhaul of its technology assets before the global pandemic hit. The challenges of COVID and blended learning only accelerated demand for better technology, and the school group responded by signing up to a customized 1:1 device plan supplied by educational technology specialists, IDNS.

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#CelebrateWithDE: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

STEM Discovery Education

It's Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Commemorate this annual May celebration that recognizes the rich heritages, cultures, histories, and present-day accomplishments of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the United States. This includes people from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, as well as those who have origins in the Pacific Islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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When STEM and Football Collide

STEM Sport

There has been a significant increase of awareness around concussions and head injuries in football in recent years. By extension, this awareness and subsequent increase in concussion protocols has decreased concussions since 2015, as depicted below by IQVIA : an independent, third-party associated with the NFL (National Football League) to effectively measure the impact of injuries, including concussions, in the league. . *2020 was markedly different from other seasons due to the COVID-19 pande

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Justice & STEM Solutions

STEM Discovery

Justice for All in Community Life In the society we live in, equal living conditions create a big problem for disadvantaged groups. In the disadvantaged group; There are the elderly, the disabled, and children. People in this group should be … Continue reading → The post Justice & STEM Solutions appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Here’s How to Get Kids Talking in Math Class!

Middle Web

We know how to get those same 6 students talking and raising their hand each day. But how do we engage every student in truly explaining their thinking and sharing their math reasoning? Middle grades teacher Mona Iehl shares 3 ways to structure questions that pull them in and keep them talking. The post Here’s How to Get Kids Talking in Math Class! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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SOS Top 10: Summer Professional Learning

STEM Discovery Education

At the height of summer, we hope you’re taking thte time to rest, relax, and recover from last school year. Even so, many of you are likely already prepping for what’s to come and planning professional learning to get ready for the fall. Whether you’re helping coordinate PL sessions or simply an enthusiastic participant, we’ve picked 10 of our favorite SOS Instructional Strategies will give a fresh take on professional learning.

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May 11, SAT Math Questions on Exponents and Radicals

Online Math for All

SAT Math Questions on Exponents and Radicals

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Steam education and the ancient Greek civilization with jigsaw method

STEM Discovery

The past comes into the present embraces with stem education because as the ancient Greek writer Ploutarchos said, the mind of children is not a container that we have to fill but a fire that we have to light. By … Continue reading → The post Steam education and the ancient Greek civilization with jigsaw method appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Astronaut Instructor and Flight Controller. Watch Astronaut Instructor and Flight Controller Theresa Parks at Work

Smore Science

I’m an astronaut instructor and flight controller. That means that I teach astronauts all about their spacesuits and how to get ready for a spacewalk. Then, I work in Mission Control when the astronauts go on spacewalks and do all of those activities on the space station. As early as I can remember, I’ve always really liked math and science. I took extra math classes after school in Junior High and helped to establish a Science Club when I was in high school.

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This Month at DE: April

STEM Discovery Education

Show students that there’s no limit to what they can dream and accomplish with new April K-12 learning resources! Reach for the stars and go to the moon with NASA, dive into the ocean blue with deep sea content from Guy Harvey and Sea Studios Foundation, and help students responsibly fund their futures with Financial Literacy Month content. Plus, get a sneak peek of what’s in store for Earth Day on April 22!

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