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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It's not often that I do a product review. And since you are now reading a product review, that should tell you that I am super-excited about this product! Erica Colon ( NittyGrittyScience.com ) has written a fabulous set of experiments for young budding scientists, ages 10 to 13. But this is more than just another science experiment book. This is a book for parents and for families, and also a fantastic resource for science teachers.

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Educators Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A few days ago, we featured 4 good web tools to help teachers and educators make the best of their collaborative team work and today we are re-featuring a collection of some of the best bookmarking.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The post is describes my 2019 Highlights. I did this for four main reasons: We, especially as teachers, should spend more time reflecting on what we are doing well – our accomplishments. Often, we don’t get the recognition we deserve. Too often educators feel too timid or undeserving to publicly acknowledge their accomplishments believing that others will perceive them as braggarts.

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Maydm

JULY 26, 2019

How 2eof $10,000 Donation Enables Maydm Youth to Code. . “…This camp is special, b ecause if you teach a girl coding, you can change the world…”. – Ruth. Thanks to 2nd Market Capital Economic Opportunity Foundation (2eof) $10,000 Matching Grant, Maydm will provide girls and youth of color in grades 6-12 in Madison with skill-based training for the technology sector. 2nd Market Capital Economic Opportunity Foundation (2eof) supports local organizations working to positively impact th

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STEM Punks

MAY 22, 2019

Overview. Temperature monitoring systems in the Antarctic Ocean, dust sensors in regional areas to alert change in weather conditions and monitoring systems for cattle were just a few of the innovative ideas generated by the students at St Mary’s College in Term One of 2019. Five teams of students were challenged to code the micro:bit and use this technology as a tool to solve real world environmental issues.

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Institute 4 STEM

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

A collaboration between the Bayer Campus in Berkeley, the City of Berkeley's Office of Economic Development, and the Institute for STEM Education created an opportunity for twenty Berkeley High School students to work with STEM professionals to take on an engineering challenge, learn about the complexities of career pathways, and tour a world-class biotechnology manufacturing site.

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Informed K12

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I've faced challenges in the past. It was challenging to apply to college, go to college, stay in college, find my first job, leave my first job, and. well, you get it. Being challenged isn't new to me. So, when our team challenged me to lead efforts to bring on new talent, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared.

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Kid Spark Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

We all learned the scientific method in school, and you may still have a few preconceived ideas about it because of your experience. Maybe you remember it as a structured approach used for science fair projects or lab experiments. This rigid view that’s applied in science class is not applicable to everyday life. But the scientific method shouldn’t be seen as inflexible or exclusive to the science classroom.

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MII-STEM

JULY 14, 2019

On 3-7 June 2020, the lead researchers of the project convened at the University of Dundee, Scotland, for week-long meeting to kick start the MII-STEM project. The post MII-STEM project kicks off with international meeting in the UK first appeared on MII-STEM.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 21, 2019

I’ll be taking a few weeks off–until after the New Year–to edit/format my website, work on projects with a deadline, prioritize life, and wish my two adult military children could come home to visit. I may drop in on you-all as you enjoy your holidays, but mostly I’ll be regenerating. I wish you a wonderful season, safe and filled with family.

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Amy Brown Science

DECEMBER 7, 2019

What types of organic compounds are contained in the foods we eat? Sometimes an old idea is still the best way to teach a concept. That is how I feel about this lab, " Testing Foods for Organic Compounds." I have been doing this lab for over 30 years, and I never tire of doing it. Granted, it is a bit messy and the observed results are sometimes a little subjective, but my students always love these two days in the lab.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Today's post is on the new Google Forms' guide we published a few months ago. The guide, which is based on instructions and insights from Docs Help center, walks teachers through the.

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DECEMBER 25, 2019

Here is my annual list of best education videos. Youth Voice. As you’ll notice the first several are youth voices. “The power of youth is the common wealth of the entire world… No segment in society can match the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of young people.” Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders Monday, Sep. 23, for failing younger generations by not taking sufficient steps to stop climate chan

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Maydm

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

By Lauren Anderson Nov 19, 2019, updated March 17, 2020. Dulce Martinez didn’t initially think coding was for her. A seventh-grade student at Roger Street Academy in Milwaukee, Martinez thought it seemed kind of boring. But after a two-week coding camp, she’s changed her mind. “I like it a lot more than I did when I first got into it,” she said. “I see myself doing this in the future because it’s really interesting and fun.”.

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PHYSICS! BLOG!

JULY 17, 2019

One new change to my intro physics class this past school year was to replace the set of FBD practice problems with a card sort that would be done in groups. The card sort gives students a chance to practice FBDs with some scaffolding (especially choosing between options rather than creating everything from scratch), and it introduces a new representation that I hadn’t shown them ahead of time (force vector addition diagrams).

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Bright and Smart

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Our Posterity = Our Children Posterity comes from Middle English posterite, from Anglo-French pusterite, from Latin posterus ("coming after"). Last week, we spoke about , World Space Week and the Apollo missions. Now let's take a look into the future of Moon exploration! NASA's next lunar exploration assignment is called Artemis. Just as the Apollo missions were responsible for putting the first men on the Moon , the Artemis program seeks to send a man back and send a woman for the first time!

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Institute 4 STEM

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Our Interim Executive Director, Bruce Simon, shared his insights about the state of STEM education in the Bay Area and beyond for the annual San Francisco Business Times' STEM Education Summit hosted at the San Francisco Exploratorium on November 15th. With three decades of experience in education, Bruce is a leader in the field and has been working tirelessly to address the issues of STEM equity, teacher shortages, and providing quality professional development and growth to K-12 educators.

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Informed K12

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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Kid Spark Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Critical Thinking. One of the main aims of the education system is preparing students to fill jobs in the workforce. That workforce has evolved greatly in the last few decades with the advent of the Digital Age. It has become much more technology-driven with a high demand for workers in fields related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

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MII-STEM

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In December 2019, the MII-STEM curriculum was piloted for the first time in Indonesia, led by R. Ahmad Zaky El Islami. The course was taught to a class of 25 pre-service science teachers at Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. The post MII-STEM pilot study is implemented in Indonesia first appeared on MII-STEM.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence. 16 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer. Backup and Image your computer.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Teaching can be a lonely field in which to work. Besides the kids, it is so vital to have co-workers who have your back. In episode 7, I speak with Stefania, a middle school art teacher who shares the beauty of working with people who are the family we choose. Stefania also discusses the difficulty leaving behind a school family when making the jump from elementary school to middle school.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Speech to text technologies allow you to transcribe your speech into text in a couple of clicks. Most of the established platforms integrate this kind of technology. For instance Google has it.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

At the beginning of November, 2019, I had the opportunity to travel to Singapore to attend and present at Edutech Asia 2019. During that time, I had the opportunity to hear about their initiative to use micro:bits to help students learn technology in authentic ways. An article from 2017, Micro:bit launch: What you need to know about the coding gadget Singapore plans to introduce, explained it as: School-going children in Singapore will soon be using a pocket-sized, codeable computer, called the

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Maydm

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Revolutionizing Tech: Girls and Students of Color Code at Maydm Event on Epic’s Campus. Students and mentors bring creativity to programming at local tech education non-profit Maydm’s Maker’s Epic Experience event. Original story posted by Epic’s Stories and Snapshots | December 16, 2019. Local students spent the day at Epic on December 7th coding interactive projects at the third Maydm’s Makers Epic Experience event.

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STEMx

AUGUST 28, 2019

In December 2008, a young student named Clara Ma submitted a name for a project NASA then called the “Mars Science Laboratory.” With a 250 word essay, Clara suggested the name “Curiosity.”. The Curiosity rover has covered over 13 miles of terrain on the Martian surface. Seven years later, the car-sized robotic explorer is the face of science on the red planet.

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Bright and Smart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Our Posterity = Our Children Posterity comes from Middle English posterite, from Anglo-French pusterite, from Latin posterus ("coming after"). What would talking about Space be if we left out talking about the stars! These twinkling little objects have been written about, sung about and wished upon, but do children understand what a star is? When we look up into the night sky, stars and planets appear to look alike, but besides their illuminating presence, they do not have anything in common.

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Start-Engineering

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Eric Iversen. “Not everything can be solved with an algorithm…. People need to build up their knowledge. Philosophy, art, the ability to understand the sweep and impact of history. Technology changes, but the problems mankind has to deal with pretty much remain the same.” — John McCumber, Director of Cybersecurity Advocacy for North America, (ISC)2 The (surprising) big picture In words that a professor of English or history might use, John McCumber, a high-profile evangelist for cybersecurity ca

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Informed K12

MAY 10, 2019

San Francisco is a great tech city, but this doesn't mean that tech always does great things for the city. Our team is fortunate to work with districts across the country on creating more efficient school systems, but when it comes to our volunteer efforts, we're intentional about working with our local community organizations.

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Mrs. Harris Teaches

JUNE 18, 2019

To sum it up, most science teachers are teaching subjects they were not trained in college to teach (a.k.a teaching out of field), but there are many internet and book resources out there to help. Many science teachers with 5 years of experience or less are teaching subjects in which they have not been prepared. This is called out-of-field (OOF) teaching.

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