Defined Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Yet many students — especially those in underrepresented groups — are not given the opportunity to learn computer science. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 13% growth in computer and IT occupations between 2020 and 2030.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Today, as education leaders, you’re faced with an increasingly diverse student population, each with unique learning styles, abilities, and aspirations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Stacy George. Gerstein: I taught machine learning activities to the students with ISTE standards using Google's Teachable Machine as the tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Are there lots of chances to get involved in the community or learn how to be a leader? Learning about the culture of the school can help you picture your daily life there and decide if you’ll do well there. On the other hand, campuses in rural areas may have a close-knit community and focus on events that take place outside.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Plato once quoted Socrates lamenting that, “If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written.”1 era: hand-written scrolls. 1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. It worked out perfectly!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2023

I insist they learn those geek words that are tech terminology ( There’s no such thing as earphones. No matter how many hands are waving in my face, I do not take a student’s mouse in my hand and do for them, nor will I allow parent helpers to do this (that is a bigger challenge than the students. But that passes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Keyboarding is a topic that most parents want their children to learn and many schools don’t have time to teach. Why learn keyboarding? Here’s an overview of keyboarding for grades K-8: Kindergarten Kindergarten is about mouse skills, getting hands on the keyboard and learning good posture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2023

Were they where you learned the capital of every state or where you came to understand the scientific method? Learning isn’t linear. Students learn to embed articles and projects into the class digital bulletin board to share with everyone. What did students learn? Students learn they are valued in the classroom.

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STEMx

JANUARY 14, 2016

Kaitlin Felsted explains how the Utah STEM Fest allows student to apply learning to real life. With more than 60 exhibitors from industry, education and government, students will have the opportunity to interact with science, technology, engineering and math across the whole spectrum through hands-on experiences.

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Accelerate Learning

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s about tapping into their natural curiosity while motivating them to do the work necessary to learn the lesson. Each of these strategies shares the idea of hands-on learning in some way, but inquiry education takes a unique approach, giving students an increased level of autonomy to help drive engagement.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. Did you have to raise your hand to answer questions? My palms are getting sweaty, so I sit on my hands and hope the teacher doesn’t randomly call on me next.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 30, 2023

Use sentences from a book they’re reading in class, spelling words they’re working on, or a teacher hand-out. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Use the font color palette to label parts of speech, i.e., blue for subject, red for verb. This makes grammar fun. Click on lessons for a full size alternative.

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Accelerate Learning

MAY 10, 2023

While there are plenty of examples of instructional strategies out there, when focusing on a discipline that lends itself easily to hands-on learning, you may want to consider a project-based learning approach. It also creates a way to see how science fits into everyday life.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2024

I learned a lot about writing by doing it and could transfer those lessons to others. Where was I supposed to learn that? That first post– The Edit Block (don’t bother to click through. It wasn’t to show up, spout off and slink away. There was a lot more I wanted from blogging. So I honed my skill. Avoid hot links.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

Unfortunately, my students’ work — and the inkblots which carried my feedback — would never get into the hands of readers who could make change. As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It is when students form preferences, gain confidence, and find a passion for learning. Alka-Seltzer Tablets), students learn about density and solubility. As they watch the raisins dance, they are learning about gas formation, density, buoyancy, and more. Elementary education is a pivotal time in a child’s education journey.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

School and district leaders have shared challenges that they are facing regarding the use of AI for teaching and learning. At Digital Promise , we firmly believe that AI literacy is the best place to start and goes hand in hand with our Digital Equity work. What Is AI Literacy? What Is AI Literacy?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is one of the first documents that really gives schools a roadmap for looking at their technology systems as a whole, says Lindsay Jones, the chief executive officer of CAST, a nonprofit that advocates for equitable learning conditions. But getting devices into students' hands is just one step in lifting education in the digital age.

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Accelerate Learning

MARCH 25, 2024

Next, we'll look at practical, imaginative strategies that infuse fun into math lessons, tailoring instruction to various learning styles with an array of playful, hands-on activities. With the right approach, we can turn math into an adventure that students love, helping them not only learn but also enjoy the process.

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Accelerate Learning

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s where they get hands-on with science and learn how to conduct an experiment. Any time students participate in a lab setting, a new set of safety rules come into play, and implementing and following those rules are necessary for a positive learning experience. The science lab is a fun and exciting place for students.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

STEM Learning is now in its third year of delivering this highly regarded and prestigious programme thanks to ongoing funding from the Nuffield Foundation and support from UK Research and Innovation. The Nuffield Research Placements programme provides engaging, hands-on research projects, where Year 12 students have the opportunity.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Students will learn to think like scientists. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. It's an opportunity for us.

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Educators Technology

AUGUST 12, 2021

SolveMe engages students in hands-on math learning experiences.read more. SolveMe is a math resource I discovered through a blog post from Tcea which I am adding to our math resources section here in ETML.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This article will introduce 24 engaging STEM activities that parents and teachers can adopt to make learning exciting and relevant in the coming year. These activities are designed to illuminate the wonders of STEM and its real-world applications, ensuring students are not only observers but active participants in STEM learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

The fear or nervousness that occurs when performing or learning math is, by some accounts, the most common form of education-related anxiety. On the one hand, worrying about math can lead students to avoid math altogether, preventing them from improving. She never took the exam. That can be useful when students have setbacks, she says.

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Box Light

APRIL 25, 2024

By leveraging 3D printers, Spencer Payton, Science Teacher at Summit Academy (Denver, CO) transforms traditional lessons into dynamic, hands-on experiences to inspire his students actively engage in their learning journey.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

He’s holding a pencil in one hand, pulling up the neck of his T-shirt with his other hand to wipe tears away from his eyes. Children's behaviors were worse when they were in remote learning as compared to when they were in other learning formats.”. So what did they find?

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STEM Sport

MARCH 12, 2024

Storytelling in Science Storytelling can be a powerful tool when students are learning complex science concepts. This teaching style has been proven to increase student comprehension, recall, and ability to connect their learnings to the world around them. In this model, educators can give students a topic, such as global warming.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

The four Hs in 4-H — Head, Heart, Hands and Health — embody values cultivated through experiential learning initiatives. As the administrator for 4-H, she focuses on providing non-formal, hands-on learning experiences tailored for youth ages nine through 19, emphasizing age-appropriate activities primarily in the out-of-school space.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My student stood next to my desk, computer resting on both hands, his eyes wide with a mixture of fear and excitement. On one hand, it was concerning to see them dive so deep into a conversation with a chatbot — I worried that it might have become too real for them. “I think I’m talking to Salinger. Can I ask?” Was he in too deep?

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Gone are the days when learning to play piano ( or any other musical instrument for that matter) was a costly activity that requires searching for and hiring a tutor, buying expensive instruments, learning complex music sheet, and finding peers to practice with. Flowkey Flowkey is another great piano learning app for iPad.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As educators seek innovative methods to engage students and enhance the learning experience, artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be an invaluable asset. I do not feel comfortable letting students' reflections of learning be based on what a machine calculated. Regardless of what the AI says, I'm still going to grade it.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Language learning has many benefits. When you learn a second or third tongue you do not simply learn its linguistic system but you also learn its underlying cultural codes. There are several reasons why people learn new languages. Languages are not empty vessels and certainly are not culturally neutral.

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Educators Technology

AUGUST 30, 2022

Generation Genius also offers a monthly homekit that contains supplies to help kids (under the supervision of adults) carry out hands-on science experiments at home. The kit, designed specifically for use at home, contains 3 fun hands-on experiments for ages 9+ with adults sidekicks.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

On top of that, Robert knows that any hands-on lesson without a computer will need to include plenty of time to walk students through the instructions. The way that they learn is so individualized, the way that their brain takes in information — they all have a personal assistant in their pocket that gives them information,” Robert says.

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