ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Here are the most-read posts for the month of November: ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone 25 Online Resources About Brainstorming and Mindmapping Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work Left-brain or Right-brain Dominant?

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

It’s relatively new on the education landscape and I have yet to reach a comfort level with it. Here are her thoughts on the importance of 3D printing in education: The range of possibilities which 3D printing provides is almost limitless. The ability to produce almost any object in 3D is poised to revolutionize learning.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Mindsnacks is a series of education apps on topics like geography, vocabulary, languages, and SAT. Though these are game-based learning, there’s no plot as you might find simulated games. Each app includes personalized learning, an enhanced review mode, and additional challenges to keep students motivated.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Savvy educators have built lesson plans based on this interest for years. Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Geography Awareness Week: November 15-19, 2021. International Education During the Pandemic. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Here are the most-read posts for the month of November. Tract+Genius Hour–a new twist on a popular project. Are We Teaching Enough Civics in Schools? An Update on Digital Storytelling.

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JULY 13, 2022

CK-12 — and differentiate for student learning styles. CyArk –geography-based lesson plans. Google Education—l esson plans, more. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Alma –create standards-based lessons and gradebook, with analytics. Educreations. GoConQR –create and manage planners. LearnZillion.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The first thing most teachers think about when discussing gamified learning is the online math games kids play. But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Let me step back a moment to explain the SAMR Model as it applies to the use of technology in education. Breakout EDU.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 10, 2018

Geography Drive Arcade is a fun iOS game for students wanting to learn about Geography. Also, GDA helps kids learn how to spell geographical location as well as find out historical facts. I highly recommend checking out Geography Drive Arcade by clicking here !!!

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s an interesting piece from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, on the explosion of wearable technology and its place in the education ecosystem: How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. Education doesn’t stop outside of the classroom. Immersing in Education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning students proficient in the language within one year. That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With educators duking it out in the so-called “math wars” over the curriculum changes in California — which recommended delaying algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus in K-12 — the question rose to the fore this year. Never got to master what I learned just basics but never felt confident in any math class from that point on.

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JUNE 6, 2021

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. How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Each spot in our planet is in and of itself a geographical wonder and the more we learn about the geography of our world the more appreciative of our diversity we become. That said, geography learning is notoriously known for being boring. Why Learning Geography ? Best geography games for students 1.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We all know that games and fun learning activities are more conducive to meaningful learning experiences and a higher level of students engagement and participation. Cool Math games target various learning skills and cognitive competencies. These include free thinking, strategy, and logic games.

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MARCH 8, 2022

” A typical year in the class began with learning how to source information using the Reading Like a Historian lessons from the Stanford History Education Group. The description on the Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Reasoning page reads, “Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are.”

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Defined Learning

MAY 12, 2022

After 12 years of teaching in Florida’s public school system, Brian Tupper’s principal let him know he was considered a “non-fiction reading teacher”, rather than a World Cultures and Geography teacher. Frustrated with the educational system, Tupper resigned and took a job teaching at Korea International School on Jeju, Island, South Korea.

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JUNE 26, 2023

June 26, 2023 10:29 am Unlocking AI's Potential: Transform Learning Experiences and Prepare for the Future. Lydia Smyers, lead for US for Education for Microsoft. The focus for today is AI's potential and transforming the learning experience and preparing for the future. Educators will come in and we have to partner with them.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 17, 2016

Seterra Geography is a fun iOS app that helps students learn states, flags, countries, and more. Finally, Seterra helps students learn about Geographical content such as capitals, oceans, mountains, and more. Finally, Seterra helps students learn about Geographical content such as capitals, oceans, mountains, and more.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Today’s guest writer is Finja Kruse, a teacher experienced in different educational tools and engaged in creative writing activities in school. By learning various subjects simultaneously, integration between them and relativity to the world outside of academia can sometimes get lost in translation. 1) Student-Centered Teaching.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Some call Classcraft a classroom management tool but really, it’s more about injecting excitement in your teaching and touching on the important social-emotional learning that sometimes gets forgotten. Kids have a passion for learning and playing games. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. ClassroomScreen.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They have shaped and promoted editorial guidelines for the products they fashion, which will land in the hands of educators and students. Importantly, these companies are pursuing equitable access to their products and content, regardless of identity, geography, race, religion, socioeconomic background, etc.

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MAY 4, 2022

Teachers and parents have long known that if students are engaged, they learn faster and remember more. Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography. So why not start at an early age, when the brain is more eager to learn and creative pathways easier to forge? .

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Not only do gardens provide sites for practical learning, but Sallie and Moses believe they help children improve their social competencies and emotional well-being. When students are curious, the motivation to learn is intrinsic, so the learning is deeper and more sustained.” School gardens are places of wonder,” says Moses.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We wondered whether there was a link between connections to place and the learning that occurs there.” While formal science education – the science we study in school or college – provides important scientific skills and knowledge, a lot of learning occurs outside of formal settings. Why is citizen science important?

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 19, 2023

Are you ready to dive into the world of robotics and explore how it can revolutionize education? ( 1 ) Why Cue robot education is important? In recent years, cue robot education has gained immense popularity in schools and colleges worldwide. 2 ) Why Is Cue Robot Education Important For Future Stem Professionals?

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

The purpose of this post is to provide researchers, students, educators, teachers (and anyone else frustrated with paywall restriction to human knowledge) with a set of open access journals and websites for free scholarly articles and research papers. You can browse its journals by subject or by alphabetical order.

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PCS Edventures

JULY 21, 2022

We all know that a more active lifestyle is good for you (it’s healthy to be healthy), but did you know that physical activity in an educational environment dramatically increases student learning and retention? Combining Fitness and Learning: With the research eyeing every classroom up and down, the question becomes how?

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Futurum

MAY 26, 2022

“The climate education bill would ensure that climate education is intertwined with every subject.”. After the UN Climate Summit COP26, Nadia Whittome MP led the UK Parliament’s first-ever debate on climate education, in partnership with the student-led Teach the Future campaign. THE CLIMATE EDUCATION BILL. Pinterest.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

Limited time offers like flash sales are just one example of the kinds of marketing gimmicks that have become common in the past few years as the internet has become flooded with online course providers promising to help people learn new skills to get ahead in their careers or personal lives.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's weekly Ed Tech Digest post , this morning I learned that ReadWriteThink has released updated versions of their popular student interactives. Unfortunately, the deprecation of Flash caused nearly all of the ReadWriteThink templates to stop working. That is until now!

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Teaching during the pandemic has turned the iconic job of education on its head. How can you be effective with the new rules required to ensure safety while maximizing the students’ educational journey? You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Is it safe to enter the classroom? Props From Everyday Life.

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MARCH 3, 2015

Sponge Activities for Geography. She is the editor/author of dozens of tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and dozens of books on how to integrate technology into education. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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