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10 Best US Colleges for Computer Science

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re a senior in HS looking to continue your tech education, we have a list of the ten best colleges that will help you perfect your skills: 10 Best Colleges in the USA to Study Computer Science. Computer Science is a desirable degree for many students as it has great prospects and is linked to innovation in technology. It is important to choose the right school for acquiring a degree.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Creating Accessible Websites

Magic EdTech

With various anti-discriminatory laws coming into action globally, website accessibility is no longer a choice, rather mandatory! It is a prime legal requirement for web developers as the spotlight is now fixed on providing digital content and interfaces that can be used by all sections of society. “The one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people’s lives.” ?

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Super Teacher Worksheets for Fall and Halloween

Technology Tidbits

Be sure to check out STW for all their Halloween ideas such as: educational games, poems, activities, and more!!! Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator.

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STEM boxes for kindergarten

Top 10 Sciencekits

STEM subscription boxes for kids are great I write a lot about STEM activities lately, and there's a good reason for that. I see how great STEM education is for nurturing the crave for science and technology from a very young age - Meaning exposing your kids to the professions of the future in their early years. Starting exposing your kids to STEM education is becoming easy these days, as more and more companies are starting to produce high quality content for all ranges of ages, including kids

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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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How do I become a Web Designer?

Ask a Tech Teacher

As High School seniors prepare to graduate, many will choose something about computers for their job or continued studies. There’s no greater excitement than being part of the team that puts a face on the internet with web design. Here’s a great overview of that field from a school that prepares students for this future job: How do I become a web designer?

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Rabbids Coding

Technology Tidbits

Rabbids Coding is a super-fun iOS app that uses the popular Rabbids characters to teach kids the basics of how to program/code (ideal for 7yrs old on up). This is done by uses lines of code where students use sequential and computational thinking to help save "their" spaceship that the Rabbits had invaded. I highly recommend checking out Rabbids Coding by clicking here !!!

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5 Ways to Assess Coding Lessons in the Classroom

Ellipsis Education

By Amy Marcou Customer Experience Specialist Grading is an inevitable part of most educators’ days… and nights… and weekends! At times, grading stacks of papers or projects can be monotonous and time consuming. On the flip side, it’s an opportunity to enter the minds of your students and their creative thought processes. When it comes to grading in your computer science class and more specifically, coding projects , the task of grading can easily consume your time and energy as you find yourself

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7 Apps That Inspire Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

You probably found dozens of new apps over the holidays that you can’t wait to try out in your classes. They all sound educational, rigorous, and dynamic but the problem is there are far more than you can use. You may have decided to try one a week — or one a month — or some other method of doling them out in measurable quantities that won’t overwhelm you or students.

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99- How to Reframe Our Understanding of Why Children Act Out

Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

99- How to Reframe Our Understanding of Why Children Act Out Teaching is at an all-time level of difficulty. Throw behavior challenges into the mix and you have a recipe for disaster. How can teachers keep their sanity and also better understand where these behaviors are coming from and why they are occurring. Join Leslie Belvins and me or a conversation on behavior function and how to look at the behavior with empathy and grade while also taking care of the rest of the class and yourself.

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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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Moon Solar Tower Challenge: STEM At Home Activity

Vivify Stem

Moon Solar Tower Challenge. STEM Space At Home Video Challenge STEM Space At Home is a video series led by an engineer and using materials you can find at home. The videos are intended to support elementary and middle school students through fun engineering design challenges with a real-world connection. Moon Solar Tower STEM Challenge Mission : Design and build a solar-powered tower on the Moon!

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Mel Science VS KiwiCo Subscription

Top 10 Sciencekits

The battle of the giants - We've taken on the challenge of comparing 2 of the most popular kids STEM subscription boxes in the market, and help you choose the right subscription box for your children - Mel Science VS KiwiCo. Some questions you might have, probably include which subscription box better suite your child? what is the difference between the 2 brands in terms of cost, topics they cover, the level of parents involvement in the making process and much more.

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Lessons from the latest STEMx Challenge Grants

STEMx

Last October, the STEMx network issued $15,000 grants. to five states. The "STEMx Challenge Grants" offered $75,000 in funding for states to advance STEM and share lessons learned with the national STEM community. Below, read the detailed reports submitted by each of the five winning states. Idaho: New strategic plan and regional hubs planned to enhance statewide STEM access -.

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Storyboard That for Halloween

Technology Tidbits

Storyboard That the wonderful resource that educators everywhere are using for a variety of educational purposes (i.e. timelines, digital storytelling, project based learning, etc), has just release their latest bundle for Halloween. These activities cover a wide range of topics from story starters, holiday cards, monsters, safety tips, and more. Storyboard That is an excellent learning tool w/ educational portal, where teachers can manage, track, differentiate instruction, and assess student ac

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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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7 Free STEM Resources

STEM Supplies

At STEM Supplies, we know STEM is more than a collection of amazing robots, 3D printers, and exciting makerspace supplies–it’s a full-fledged curriculum that demands unique teaching skills. That’s why we developed free STEM resources to inspire and help teachers overcome the hurdles of implementing STEM practices into their classrooms. STEM Supplies Blog.

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Afternoon activities with the kids

Top 10 Sciencekits

Afternoon is usually the time where my home wakes up to life. My 3 kids (ages 2, 5 and 8) have finished their noon nap, and after eating a small snack, they are up and ready for some mind or body challenging activity. When the weather is nice, their favorite activity by far is sports. My middle and older kids are practicing their climbing skills on our home made kids climbing wall, playing soccer or basketball, or just hanging around in the kids playground.

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Teachers can apply now to create lessons, work in Army science labs

STEMx

The . RESET program. allows teachers to conduct research in a real lab with professional mentoring and take the knowledge they gain back to the classroom. RESET, or Research Experiences for STEM Educators and Teachers, offers 60 hours of online summer learning to a select group of teachers and then places some of them in an Army lab to work for a month.

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Essaypop

Technology Tidbits

Essaypop is a fantastic interactive online tool that helps students become better essay writers. This is done through an innovative writing platform that uses: Guided Learning, Writing Frames, and Sentence Starters to help students become more efficient writers. Best of all, the educational portal allows educators create/assign lessons and track student progress in real-time.

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6 Free STEM Resources

STEM Supplies

At STEM Supplies, we know STEM is more than a collection of amazing robots, 3D printers, and exciting makerspace supplies–it’s a full-fledged curriculum that demands unique teaching skills. That’s why we developed free STEM resources to inspire and help formal and informal STEM educators overcome the hurdles of implementing STEM practices into their teaching spaces.

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The Importance of Civics Education

User Generated Education

Truth be told, I always disliked history and government classes as a Kindergarten through undergraduate student. I found it dry, boring, irrelevant, and unimportant. I believe this was due to it all being about memorization. memorizing events and dates in history; memorizing the branches of government; memorizing states and their capitols. This type of learning reflects only remembering, the lowest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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