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Here’s a Preview of November

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Geography Awareness Week. Rigorous Mathematics. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Civics in Schools. College or Career.

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Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt?

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The need to strengthen the science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) careers pipeline has received renewed interest lately. My college professor while he was teaching us announced to the class that math can’t be taught. That was geography.” So what would it take to make STEM truly open to would-be future scientists?

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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How to celebrate Here are activities I like that blend learning into the celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography As a class, come up with two locations in each state, to total 100. One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ).

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How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities

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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. The vast majority of students are inseparable from the technology that they carry with them daily.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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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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The Importance of 3D Printing in Education

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As the technology evolves, 3D printers are being used to create everything from simple plastic toys to automobile bodies, prosthetic limbs, replacement parts, and even gourmet dishes. 3D printing and mathematics can work together perfectly in order to create accurate representations of hard to grasp mathematical concepts.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography. Now, if you’ve run out of ideas, here are a few tips (with and without technology) to help your students embrace their creative side. . Up until a few years ago, 3D printing wasn’t an easily accessible technology. Use Fun Tools.