Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2019

If you missed this article over at ReadiLearn , here are my thoughts about teaching technology in kindergarten: Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology. Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Recorded live at ISTE, the conversation delves into how Genius Hour has been revamped and integrated into the sixth-grade curriculum, offering students a full-year exploratory course that goes beyond traditional learning. Focused on designing project-based learning units with an interdisciplinary approach. 2 Vicki: So, with a video?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 23, 2016

I haven’t covered this topic in a while, but Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Sara Stringer, came to the rescue with this great article on How parents can protect their children online : One of the best things about the internet is that it brings the world to you. When that’s being done, the learning experience is safely optimized.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

adults own about 100 million of these AI-powered speakers with close to fifteen percent of sales going to education. They simplify mundane tasks, and students love learning with them. It is a physical device connected to the Internet via WiFi that you can talk to, ask questions of, and get help from on particular topics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2017

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Headlines about the teacher in Virginia being shot by her 6-year-old student blew up in the news, and recently, Nashville experienced its own tragedy when a school intruder at The Covenant School killed three students and three adults. Our students have a window into this violence that we could have never imagined.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Getting large sets of comparable data about arguably ‘fluffy’ topics – people’s feelings or experiences, for instance – is a challenge across the world of science. Schools are obviously places for learning, but they are also where children socialise, eat, play, exercise and interact with adults outside their own family,” says Birgitta.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

promoting best practices in academic development (readiness to learn and achievement strategies). In short, these professionals were tasked with the mental and psychological well-being of teenagers wending their way through the greatest change period of their lives-from child to adult. High School News guidance counselor'

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STEM Discovery Education

AUGUST 16, 2022

Level up and review the latest DE updates here , then keep reading for learning resources to use this month and beyond. From learning all about idioms to being able to identify the setting of any story, these educational, animated music videos make learning Language Arts fun and unforgettable. Learn More. Learn More. -->.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

Anecdotal experiences (no studies yet on this topic) indicate that teachers who file digitally rather than in paper file folders lose fewer documents. Most LMSs (Learning Management Systems) make it easy to trade paper for digital. The good news: Most schools now use LMSs be they Google Classroom, Canvas, or another.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Like many adults of my generation, I left high school and college without financial literacy skills. It’s no wonder our household debt in our country is at a new peak. Despite being one of the most important topics to prepare students for success in the world, financial literacy is not present in most classrooms. I’m not alone.

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Start-Engineering

JUNE 24, 2020

What could be worse for students than learning about the boring things adults do for work? While long a feature of high school and even middle school education, career-oriented programming increasingly shows up in elementary school learning activities. Eric Iversen. Is elementary school too early for career awareness activities?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2023

With the school year ending, here are some useful tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew for students preparing for college or career: School and Job Tips for Young Adults The marketplace for good jobs has always been highly competitive. But how can young adults get the training, schooling, and experience to get a job they enjoy?

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. It turns out that in addition to building my vocabulary and learning more phrases in Spanish, my vulnerability in learning a new language is creating common ground with my students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I read recently that 70% of millennials get their news from Facebook. So why do students turn to it for news? And then, not two days later, I heard Twitter has reclassified their app as a news purveyor rather than a social media device. Once again: Who gets news from Twitter? Apparently a lot of adults.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As w/ the previous year''s list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. However, that''s not to say that there isn''t a good amount of websites and Learning Management Systems showing up as well. iPads/Chromebooks). . iPads/Chromebooks).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

No wonder it takes eight hours a day — and more — to learn what is required to thrive in the 21st-century world. I need to add another topic to this list, one that is used daily and misunderstood just as often, one that intimidates some and confuses many, one where an introduction feels like drinking from a fire hose.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Not a surprise, Statistic Brain says 80% of adults did not buy a single book in the past year ( Pew reports it as 77%). is it user-friendly ?

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Futurum

JUNE 7, 2022

The good news is that doctors can test for TB infection before the onset of TB disease, enabling patients to be treated with drugs to ensure they do not progress to disease. James’s team contacts adults who have been diagnosed with MRD-TB. University outreach programmes can help you learn more about both aspects of this career.

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STEM Education Guide

AUGUST 16, 2022

Much of the brand really comes down to the quality of the product, but also the endless possibilities for learning that it supports. One of the ways children can engage and expand these skills is with the help of adults and teachers around them. Well, the good news is, that the possibilities are endless. Legos and STEM Together.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A recent study from NewsGuard found that roughly one in five TikTok videos contain misinformation, whether the topic is COVID-19 vaccines or the Russia-Ukraine war. “I It is a platform that’s not really designed [for users] to leave and judge the credibility of its news elsewhere,” she says.

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Futurum

MAY 23, 2022

What lessons can we learn from past pandemics? However, very unexpectedly, younger adults (aged ~20-44) died at much higher rates than normal for their age. However, very unexpectedly, younger adults (aged ~20-44) died at much higher rates than normal for their age. Published: May 23, 2022. PATHWAY FROM SCHOOL TO ANTHROPOLOGY.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). And in fact I think it was only in writing this piece that I even learned he’d grown up in Los Angeles (specifically, East Hollywood).

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2023

Now the former broadcaster has reached a new milestone as the recipient of the News Literacy Project’s Alan C. The nonprofit recognized Mendiola for her work at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, where she created a bilingual broadcast journalism class with a strong focus on news literacy and media ethics.

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Futurum

AUGUST 29, 2023

Students can explore whether a sphere is a 2D or 3D shape and learn how, to a topologist, a coffee cup is the same shape as a donut! In this activity, students are challenged to write a news report as a journalist in a fictitious country that is experiencing protests. Geometry – Dr Sam Ballas is studying the geometry of surfaces.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

There are plenty of heated debates happening about what should be taught in schools: whether it’s over the type of books students should read , how LGBTQ topics are discussed or how to talk about racism. The resulting study finds that while there are some obvious partisan divides, there are some surprising areas where most adults agree. “I

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