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10 Tips About Using Images in Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are ten of the most-visited image-use tips on Ask a Tech Teacher: 10 Tips About Using Images in the Classroom You Don’t Want to Miss. Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts. Photos For Class–Robust, Student-safe with built in citations. Quick Search for Plagiarized Images. 5 Image Apps for your Classroom. My Picture’s a TIFF and the Program Needs a JPG.

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Is AR BS or Good Teaching & Learning?

The Innovative Educator

Augmented Reality is nothing new for youth. It has been a part of student's social experience in apps like Snapchat and it made a big splash when Pokemon Go made its debut. But when it comes to learning, does it have a place? While seeing an object, insect, or animal up close in an augmented reality is certainly preferably to reading about it in your science text, is it really the best way to help students learn?

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Introduction to Design Thinking for Educators Workshop

User Generated Education

I had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on design thinking for educators at the New Mexico Association for the Gifted Fall Institute. Here is a round-up of what we did. Warm Up: Instant Challenge. Participants were asked to warm-up for the session with a challenge from the Destination Imagination Instant Challenge App. Instant Challenges are fun, STEAM-based group activities that must be solved within a short period of time.

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Forensics: Fingerprinting Lecture & Note Guide

STEM Teacher Inspiration

This is my lecture given in a forensics class about collecting and analyzing fingerprints. It describes some of the history of fingerprinting, people involved in major discoveries, and how fingerprints are use in a forensic investigation. There is an embedded youtube video in the prezi and the powerpoint about IAFIS, the FBI’s database of fingerprints.

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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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Halloween Projects, Websites, Apps, and a Costume

Ask a Tech Teacher

Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps: Projects. ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone (a pumpkin–see inset). Lesson Plan: Halloween letter for grades 2-5.

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STEMxchange 2018: Save the Date!

STEMx

The 2018 STEMxchange will take place on Tuesday & Wednesday, May 8-9, 2018 at the Nashville Airport Marriott in Nashville, Tennessee. This year, we’re excited to join the fourth annual Tennessee STEM Innovation Summit. The summit brings together leaders, innovators, and champions from across Tennessee who seek advance excellence in STEM education.

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Andi's Adventure on Buncee

Technology Tidbits

" Andi's Adventure is a tale of one little girl whose imagination brings color to her world. When she's given the freedom to create and share her story in school, she brings this magic to her classroom and keeps the sparkle in her eye." Andi's Adventure is the new educational initiative to help educators keep creativity alive in their classroom and their student's lives.

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How NOT to Assess Student Writing

Ask a Tech Teacher

In my school, every teacher assesses writing. Even in the tech lab, which is my purview, I provide mini-how-to-write lessons before tech projects that include writing. That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. I remind students of the five-paragraph essay, synonyms, plan-revise-edit-rewrite, persuasive essays, letter writing, or whatever fits the day’s lesson.

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How important is technical writing skills to STEM Education?

CTE Learning

Somewhere in a country far far away a STEM education teacher is crying. Not out of laughter, but embarrassment. As STEM and STEAM Educators, we are always emphasizing communication skills with our students. It is just what we do. Every once and a while you see something that reminds you just how important good written communication skills are. A friend who runs a cloud services company shared this with me and we did have a chuckle (thanks Craig).

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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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Challenge Grant: Catalytic change rallies South Carolina leaders

STEMx

In June, STEMx. awarded Challenge Grants. to its members in three states so that each could hold a meeting (or series of meetings) on a pressing STEM education issue. One grant winner, South Carolina’s Coalition for Mathematics & Science (SCCMS), used its $15,000 award to host the Grand Challenges in SC STEM Summit on Oct. 17 in Columbia. For first impressions gathered from the summit, we contacted Tom Peters, executive director of SCCMS.

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Choosito

Technology Tidbits

Choosito is a search engine for education that I found out about from Technology & Learning. This is a great way to search the web in a safe way as well as library resources. Best of all, all search results display a reading level which makes it similar to Nettrekker and ideal for education. I highly recommend checking out Choosito by clicking here !!!

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169 Tech Tip #99: Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This

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: #99–Need Email Accounts for Registration?

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Video Science To Art – A STEAM education video

CTE Learning

As most of you know, we are good friends with the KCALSI – Kansas City Life Sciences Institute for more than 10 years. During which we have been collaborating to produce STEM and STEAM education content about our dynamic regional biotech and life sciences industry. I love the chance for our education team to meet top researchers and create these videos.

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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 Grow Global Digital Citizens

Ask a Tech Teacher

With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. population age 3 and over used the Internet. 94% of youth ages 12-17 who have Internet access say they use the Internet for school research and 78% say they believe the Internet helps them with schoolwork. 41% of online teens say they use email and instant messaging to contact teachers

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Top Tutors in Every Subject.

CTE Learning

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Our Students Come First.

CTE Learning

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Growing and Achieving.

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Success Needs a Plan

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Knowledge is Power

CTE Learning

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Blended Play

Technology Tidbits

Blended Play is an excellent new site that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Blended Play brings Game Based Learning to the classroom in a fun and easy way. All a teacher has to do is select the game (i.e. Mountain Climber, Viking Fleet, Sushi Take Over, Space Sale), add the questions, group the students into teams, and then display/project it on a board.

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Tinycards

Technology Tidbits

Tinycards by Duolingo is the new free iOS app for flashcards. Tinycards lets students memorize anything by playing through a game and unlocking levels. A user can play through an already created deck on any number of subjects or create their own. These flashcards can contain text, images, and animations making learning fun. I highly recommend checking out Tinycards by clicking here !!!

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Answerables

Technology Tidbits

*Be sure to check out their latest updates!!! **Answerables iPad app available here !!! Answerables is a wonderful new innovative site/game that is perfect for Game Based Learning (or more accurate Game Based Learning meets Learning Management System). It reminds me of Second Life but geared more toward kids w/ their fantasy/SciFi environment. The game takes place in the 3D virtual world of Answerables on a planet called Proxima, where the native Ansibles (students) encounter an alien race.

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EDpuzzle

Technology Tidbits

EDpuzzle the amazing simple to use site that educators everywhere are using to "flip" a classroom and differentiate instruction has recently release their "online" curriculum for teachers. Educators can now access all video-lessons and questions for the whole school year and search for them by subject or grade level. This is a great way to easily gage student learning in a wide range of subjects and save educators a bunch of time.

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Zebra Math

Technology Tidbits

Zebra Math is an innovative new iOS app for working on basic Math skills. Zebra Math is a fun app that focuses on skills such as: addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc etc by having a student just draw the correct answer to the problem in the allotted time. As a student progresses they will learn more skills and move on to the next level. Also, a student can share their scores w/ others.

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Super Teacher Worksheets Contest

Technology Tidbits

Super Teacher Worksheets the excellent resource for educators recently announced a contest for this month (October 2017). The rules are simple, just go to this link [link] and fill out your name and email address and click submit. The winner will receive Beatrix Potter's World of Peter Rabbit book collection ($100 value). For more information click here !!!

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The Best Tutors in Town.

CTE Learning

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Lifelong Learning

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Student Success

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Lifestyle Class

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First for Your Tuition Needs.

CTE Learning

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Academic Advising

CTE Learning

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