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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

Educators Technology

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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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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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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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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If you don’t teach in the United States, this might be a term you aren’t familiar with. 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.”

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Guiding Students through the Crisis in Ukraine

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Here are great ideas for how to address the difficult topic of war in the Ukraine, from Ask a Tech Teacher collaborator, Christian Miraglia, recently retired from teaching after thirty-six years: 24/7. As a history teacher, I made it a priority to teach my students how to check the reliability of sources. Essential Skills. We all are.”

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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When it comes to education, there has always been a call for approaches that are more grounded in context. Having said that, teachers (in particular primary) are already being pressured with an increasing array of outcomes they must address.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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“Eighty-seven percent of teachers and 77% of parents agree teaching that inspires creativity has a bigger payoff for students” This according to Gallup research (To read more of the report, click here ). Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography. Encourage Their Curiosity.

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Fun Math Games to Help Students Practice Math Concepts and Skills

Educators Technology

Although its title indicates otherwise, Cool Math Game website is not limited to only math challenges, it also offers mini-games spanning different subjects and content areas including memory games, jigsaw puzzles, science games, geography-based games, classic games, among others. ABCya does not offer much help in this regard.

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