2016

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Ten Tech Problem-Solving Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the top ten problem-solving tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: Tech Tip #108: Got a Tech Problem? Google It! What to do when your Computers Don’t Work. 25 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix–Update. How to Teach Students to Solve Problems. I Can Solve That Problem…. Let Students Learn From Failure. Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind.

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4 Web Tools To Create Newspapers and Flyers for Your Class

Educators Technology

February 26, 2016 Below is a collection of some very good web tools you can use with your students to create educational posters,flyers, brochures, and newspapers.The tools are simple and easy to use.read more.

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A Day of Giving Back 2016

Amy Brown Science

Help support these wonderful charities! Please join us on TeachersPayTeachers.com this Sunday, December 11, for a "Day of Giving Back." I absolutely love this event because the sellers who are participating will be donating a percentage of their sales to really amazing charities! Last year 120 TpT sellers participated. Just think how many charities benefited!!

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Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners

User Generated Education

Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand. The projects teach students how to make a stable product, use tools, think about the needs of another, solve challenges, overcome setbacks and stay motivated on a long-term problem.

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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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Social Media Becomes Key to Forming An Educator Learning Community #CDEtop30

The Innovative Educator

A problem can be the inspiration for innovation. When I started my career in education as a school librarian my problem was that I was an island unto myself. While the library was a wonderful place to work, I longed for a community with which I could share ideas and learn. That was one of the problems that became the inspiration for the work I do now which was recognized by the Center for Digital Education who recently selected me as a Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and Trailblazers.

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Fingerprint and Impression Evidence Inspiration

STEM Teacher Inspiration

Looking for some new inspiration for your Forensics course? The following list of websites are all related to Fingerprint and Impression Evidence and can be used as either teacher or student resources. Britain’s CSI School – Footprints – The One Show – YouTube. Superglue Fuming Tips. How-to Video Presentations. Latent Print Evidence Collection.

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iWD Web Design Course with Industry Certification receives UC a-g Approval

CTE Learning

Thank you to the Regents of the University of California for the news that our iWD Web Design with Industry Certification Course has received their UC a-g approval. This course is special to our team as it was our first fully platform agile course we built. In particular, this course allows the students to not only complete this UC a-g STEM designated course using a Chromebook, iPad, Mac, PC, Android.

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Creating Rubrics for Performance Tasks Aligned to NGSS – Part 2

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

I created the three-dimensional rubric below in an attempt to help get the ball rolling. I have honestly not yet seen a rubric where the creator claims it is three-dimensional. I’m not sure I’m there yet, so critique away! Most rubrics I’ve found only focus on the practices, which I agree is a good place to start ( see the resource list at the end of this post ).

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Congressional staff briefed on rural afterschool

STEMx

Note from Director Mike Feder: STEMx readers, I read this post a few weeks ago. It offers some critical details, both about the importance of afterschool programs but also on how the Afterschool Alliance keeps legislators briefed. With permission, we’re cross-posting this information. by Erik Peterson for the Afterschool Alliance, . original post. The benefits provided by afterschool programs can be integral to the fabric of a rural community—including STEM learning experiences, community connec

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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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Paperscorer

Technology Tidbits

Paperscorer is a fantastic new mobile (iOS/Android, or Chrome plug-in) app that allows educators and students to assess their learning in real-time. The way this works is a teacher creates an assessment/quiz in Google Forms/Documents and then create and print out a unique answer form/bubble sheet for each student. The student then uses those forms to answer the question and take the assessment/quiz.

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How to Create a Tech-based Curriculum Using the SAMR Model

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is a question I get often from teachers: How do I teach my state/national/international curriculum using technology? When I first addressed this issue about fifteen years ago, there weren’t any tools to make this happen. In fact, I ended up writing my own project-based technology curriculum (now in its fifth edition). I wanted a curriculum that scaffolded learning year-to-year, blended into the school academic program, could be re-formed to apply to any academic topic, differentiated

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A Handy Chart Featuring Over 30 iPad Apps for Students with Special Needs

Educators Technology

January 19, 2016 Today we spent sometime going through our archive looking for special needs apps we have shared here in the past and ended up with the chart below. These are apps we would recommend.read more.

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Taking Students to the Laboratory? How to Plan and Execute the Perfect Lab Activity.

Amy Brown Science

Use this teacher checklist when planning ANY lab activity! Recently I had the opportunity to work with a small group of science teachers in an inservice-type situation. The group ranged in their teaching experience. Some were brand new teachers, while others had a few years under their belt. None were what I would call "knowledgeable veterans." As our time together progressed, it quickly became obvious to me that these teachers needed help with "the lab.

Science 130
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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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Teaching Grammar-In-Context

User Generated Education

Archaic Ways of Teaching Grammar. We construct grammatically correct sentences or correct our mistakes by intuitively applying the rules that govern English syntax. If, instead, we had to apply those rules consciously, they would only get in our way, making it impossible for us to speak or write at all. To construct a simple two-word sentence, such as “He dreams,” requires the application of at least seven grammar rules.

Teaching 105
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Who Do You Tweet to When @Twitter @Support Is Your Problem? Please RT.

The Innovative Educator

Twitter has been an essential platform for me in building my professional learning network and share ideas. It also has come in handy when seeking customer service support. Especially when I need support from large companies like airlines, utilities, cable, and more. For the past few weeks the customer service support I am seeking is support with Twitter.

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3 Smart Ways to Improve Parent-Teacher and Student-Teacher Communication This School Year

Science Teaching Junkie

As secondary educators, our list of responsibilities seems to grow exponentially every year. More paperwork, more tasks, more meetings. Why do we view communication as such a daunting task? I believe it has a lot to do with the amount of time it can take. On several occasions, I've contacted a parent at the beginning of my conference period, only to have the BELL end the conversation!

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Crime Scene Protocols

STEM Teacher Inspiration

An introduction to crime scene personnel and procedures. This is the first lesson in my Crime Scene Protocols unit. It takes students through what happens once a first responder has determined that, yes, we have a crime scene here! Then the CSI team gets called in and the process of documenting the scene and properly collecting any evidence must begin.

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UC a-g Approval for Mobile Application Design and Development

CTE Learning

The Regents of the University of California just issued our Mobile Application Design and Development Industry Certification Course their UC a-g approval. The post UC a-g Approval for Mobile Application Design and Development appeared first on CTeLearning.

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Formative Assessment and the NGSS

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

Within this post, I am going to focus on formative assessment as an ongoing assessment conducted as part of daily instruction to guide further instruction. They are informal or formal checks of knowledge happening in conjunction with instruction. I’m not considering more summative type assessments such as end-of-unit tests or student projects. Though to be sure, all assessments should be formative, in that the results will be used to guide decision-making in relation to instruction.

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STEM stands out at White House Science Fair

STEMx

100-pound subway-cleaning robots. Prosthetics good enough to skateboard on. Homemade spacecrafts that can reach the stratosphere. That last one was made by sisters Kimberly and Rebecca Yeung, ages 9 and 13. They fashioned a small craft out of a weather balloon and Rebecca’s archery arrow shafts. Before releasing it into the sky, they attached a camera, GPS, and a variety of sensors.

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Storyboard That for Thanksgiving

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 Thanksgiving. These activities cover a wide range of topics such as story starters, holiday cards, and more. Storyboard That is an excellent learning tool w/ educational portal, where teachers can manage, track, and assess student accounts in a safe environment.

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Use the SAMR Model to Spearhead Technology in Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is a question I get often from teachers: Technology is always an extra layer of work in my classroom. How can I blend it into what I already do without taking time I don’t have? When I first addressed this issue fifteen years ago, it was all about replacing traditional classroom tools with one on a computer. For example, book reports were typed on the computer instead of handwritten, or math facts were practiced with a math game instead of flash cards.

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10 Awesome Storybook Apps to Develop Your Kids Love for Reading

Educators Technology

November 16, 2016 Following our post on some of the best eBook libraries for kids, we curated for you this collection of iPad apps featuring 10 popular storybooks for young readers. Teachers and.read more.

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Using Games to Master the Mountain of Biology Vocabulary Words

Amy Brown Science

Are your students struggling to master all the new biology terms and definitions we teach each day? After teaching high school Biology for over 30 years, I know that one of the biggest problems my students are going to have in my class is mastering the mountain of new vocabulary words encountered each and every day. When I talk to struggling biology students, they will usually tell me that they understand the concepts, and they understand "how and why" things work as they do, but they hate to me

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Simple and Rube Goldberg Machines: A Maker Education, STEAM Lesson

User Generated Education

Recently I facilitated a simple machines leading into Rube Goldberg machines lesson with my gifted elementary students. As I’ve discussed in past blog posts, I use several criteria to guide my lesson design: Instructional challenges are hands-on and naturally engaging for learners. There is a game-like atmosphere. There are elements of play, leveling up, and a sense of mastery or achievement during the instructional activities.

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8 Strategies To Get Your Principal to Say Yes To Anything

The Innovative Educator

So, your PLN is raving about a new product or program that has made teaching and learning better than ever and you want to bring this to your classroom too. Since you work for a school though, it’s not 100% up to you. You need buy in and support from your principal to allow you to move forward. That’s not always easy, unless you know the following secrets to success shared by former @NYCSchools Principal Jason Levy ( @Levy_Jason ), who now advises principals and superintendents on how to develop

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Task Card Storage & Organizational System (plus a FREEBIE)

Science Teaching Junkie

The days of organizing my task cards in these little plastic file folders from the Target Dollar Spot (or was it Dollar Tree? I can't remember) are over! Bottom line. they cost a dollar and I'm so glad I didn't spend much more than that. Whew! They got so bulky and I was constantly having to go through them all to find the cards I was looking for. Now they are so organized!

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Mysteries of Matter: Into Thin Air video worksheet

STEM Teacher Inspiration

I like to use this video in chemistry classes either when learning about the periodic table , or later when beginning reactions. It could really fit in anywhere, even as a good sub plan! These questions follow the video Mysteries of Matter Episode 1: Into Thin Air. For more information about the film visit the website: [link] The video is 1 hour long and is available through the PBS store or your library.

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Allen East HS – Allen County OH – Hosts Game Design Course Developers

CTE Learning

One of our new Coding and 3D Video Game Design schools – Allen East HS met with two of our development team today. Bill Mattevi’s two Video Game Design I classes got the chance to chat with CTeL authors about coding, game design and how to succeed on a design team. These Allen East students will be following up their fall semester of Video Game Design with an exciting spring using our iWD Web Design with HTML5/CSS3 industry certification course.

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The Importance of 3D Printing in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

A topic I don’t cover enough is 3D printing. It’s relatively new on the education landscape and I have yet to reach a comfort level with it. Thankfully, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Lisa Michaels, has lots of knowledge and experience on this topic. Here are her thoughts on the importance of 3D printing in education: The range of possibilities which 3D printing provides is almost limitless.

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10 Projects to Kickstart Hour of Code

Ask a Tech Teacher

Coding–that geeky subject that confounds students and frightens teachers. Yet, kids who can code are better at logical thinking and problem solving, more independent and self-assured, and more likely to find a job when they graduate. In fact, according to Computer Science Education , by 2020 , there will be 1.4 million coding jobs and only 400,000 applicants.

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