Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

When kids read that America’s $30 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

JANUARY 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. I draw the line at them choosing for other people’s. I won’t start now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2020

Teachers see where they must circle back with help, broaden a topic, or move forward faster. For example: Students may like that they can rewind videos and aren’t interrupted as they speak but dislike the lack of community and inability to talk with their teacher. Great News: JotForm now offers a PDF Editor. More About JotForm.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community. Sponsor Message and Introduction to Today's Topic 00:00:03:49 – 00:00:31:38 Vicki Davis: Today's sponsor is the Modern Classrooms Project. Is there a collaborative component?

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STEM Discovery Education

JULY 13, 2022

Hello DEN Community! Therefore, we’d like to introduce you to the new DE Blog! We’re forever grateful that the resources we provide can help you accomplish that important mission, and we hope this new DE Blog will only amplify that support. Your DE Community Team. We SEE You. Welcome to the DE Blog. Go There Now.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

News won't reward us for it. In addition to courses that may have actual content on those topics, expanding service to adult learners will “act out social justice,” university leaders argue, by increasing access to career opportunities. We don't care.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

But it’s often individuals from outside of academia who construct topical questions of interest for scholars, serve as study participants, and fund organizations producing such work. However, nuance is needed in communicating conclusions and helping the public—and even leaders and experts—to understand them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2018

The site provides a community for students and professionals to discuss all areas of science, although it does primarily focus on physics, as the name suggests. World Literature Forum is an online discussion board that examines all forms of literature and literary news. World Literature Forum. General Study Help.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 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

JANUARY 20, 2017

A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like. They are funny, entertaining, educational, often short, and rarely boring.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2015

Plus, Symbaloo collections made by one teacher can be shared with the community, making link collections that much easier to curate. Offers a good collection of useful webtools for students including links, news, calendar, notes, even weather. If I want to add widgets, I have to select from their list. Mine includes: oft-used websites.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2019

Sometimes, these are for just their students but often, the community is invited in an effort to provide a safe, fun summer learning environment for all kids. You might also be interested in these articles: Great News: JotForm now offers a PDF Editor. Every school I know offers a summer camp. It’s organizing enrollees.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

That’s a lot of good news about this massive new experiment in learning through technology. As part of the Expanded Success Initiative (ESI), he designed and launched innovative new high schools in America’s largest school district, New York City. Strategies for educators to leverage technology for better learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Most new jobholders never had to think about costs vs. revenue, instead relied on parents to keep a roof over their head, heat and AC turned on, and gas in the car (and a car in the driveway). The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad news is it’s not mandatory.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

providing connectedness to school, community, state and nation. Really, is anyone surprised, given today’s educational environ, that counselor duties are expanding to encompass not just the child, but the families and community, in topics that well-exceed the traditional such as: cyber-bullying. Put the student first.

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Scientix

JULY 22, 2022

In Natural Sciences, students often struggle to understand and apply science topics, and have difficulties imagining or realizing their importance and application in real life. It combines real-life news stories (including technology news) from normative sources with business economics and GHG emissions. Career choice.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 8, 2017

Ideas for giving a voice to diverse communities was a topic discussed at the #NewsLitCamp at Time Inc. in New York City. Damaso Reyes a program manager for The News Literacy Project explains this issue is due in part to the reality that today many of our mainstream newsrooms are not diverse.

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CSTEM

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Just as important as the topics – science, technology, engineering, math – is the approach. Students need to learn through hands-on problem-solving and making, with a focus on collaboration, critical thinking, and innovating by seeking out new solutions. Manufacturing is an exciting topic to incorporate into student classroom projects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

If you watch the news, tolerance seems to be a lost art. This is not an easy topic. College kids shout down speakers. Mobs throw chairs through windows. Hordes of hooligans loot stores. It’s not that we don’t try. The Kindness Movement is more popular than ever. The final step is to act on the results.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2015

I belong to several Tech Teacher forums, FB groups, G+ Communities, and every day I find more great tools I can’t wait to use in my classroom. This is a useful tool for rewording news stories to fit up to five different reading levels. I can’t keep up with them. Here are my top five: Newsela.

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STEM Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

We’re finding even more ways to creatively engage all students, and part of that is the new community of characters living in your DE platform! His excitement is contagious as his courageous personality encourages you to chase your curiosity and dive headfirst into new topics. Where You’ll Find Him. Sign In Today.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

The inclusive environment that makerspaces provide results in a sense of community for participating students and functions as a safe place for gathering feedback. Not only are students participating, they are learning to teach and share skills collaboratively with others while building a stronger learning community.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Recognized as an open-minded, creative ideator that fosters collaboration with teachers, administrators, and community members. Currently in an Instructional Technology Coach & Staff Developer role. Key strengths include relationship-building and growing a team's creative capacity rooted in the design thinking mindsets.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As a result, wildfires are becoming increasingly prevalent and pose a serious threat to human life, local communities and natural ecosystems. This will allow them to identify where future fire risks are highest, and help communities prepare for and manage the risks associated with bushfires. What are the risks posed by bushfires?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

There are dozens of reasons, from new bosses who want to shake things up to your husband gets a job in a different state. The only good news: Your boss told you already, giving you time to job hunt for the new school year. Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below.

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Amy Brown Science

MARCH 31, 2020

The questionnaire will get your students thinking about the ecology and environmental issues of your local community. It forces students to think deeply about two topics or concepts as they search to find the similarities and differences between them. Monohybrid Mice! is great for Punnett Square practice.

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Futurum

APRIL 6, 2023

Cortés is investigating whether a community-based behavioural intervention can improve cardiovascular health outcomes for perimenopausal Latinas. Developing a behavioural intervention Yamnia hopes to reduce the risk of CVD in perimenopausal Latinas by developing a community-based and culturally tailored behavioural intervention.

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Start-Engineering

MAY 27, 2021

Part 1 examines Ramnicu Valcea, a small town in Romania that came to be known as “Hackerville” because of its robust fiber-optic network and dense community of libertarian, often-law-breaking hackers. Watch this space for more news! Eric Iversen is VP for Learning and Communications at Start Engineering.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

In a recent news article, Andrea noted that her struggling readers in grades 7-8 used to read at a grade 5 or 6 (Barshay). Help Kids feel like they are part of a reading community. We need to challenge and encourage kids to stretch and read about a topic that they are more interested in reading about. 6:29 Idea 3: Conferencing.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“This includes increasing machine learning literacy through course design; hosting middle school STEM teachers on campus to create course materials on probability and statistics; and translating middle school course materials into Spanish for dissemination in the local community and in Puerto Rico,” explains Yamil.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

Rachelle is also a host of ThriveinEDU Live and leads a community of educators on Facebook. So it's a nice combo of all of those topics. And those were the biggest topics that I found. So let's shift to another topic that I'm personally passionate about which is I personally have some concerns with the anthropomorphism of AI.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 25, 2018

This is not good news for Slack. But, the problems Facebook is facing in the news, and the fact that they won't guarantee free forever for education, makes Workplace a less desirable choice for some. Instead, they decided to build out their Skype product and develop their own version of Slack. Which to choose? Have you used Teams?

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STEM Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

From SEL and STEM to grade-band and topic-specific Boards (e.g., The New Quiz. Consider connecting with the Discovery Educator Network (DEN) Community for inspiration, support, and guaranteed laughter! Learn More. -->. Studio Choice Boards. Learn More. Learn More. -->.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2015

Social Media isn’t the only area in which New York City is paving the way. As announced in the NY Daily News , the New York City Department of Education will lift the ban on cell phones and other digital devices in March. This comes with some good and bad news. You can read press release on the topic here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2016

One of the most pressing and timely issues facing the education community nationally is how we can address teaching math, science, and engineering concepts to the K-12 population. For students, there are CSTEM camps and competitions to showcase the robot wizardry of programmers from elementary through high school. why bother.

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STEMx

APRIL 30, 2020

The learning topics are centered around three critical components of STEM education: design thinking, STEAM career awareness, and exploration of STEM habits of mind. The program’s mission is to expand leadership capacity for rural educators and bring positive change to their communities through STEM experiences.

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Chillax Science

MAY 3, 2023

Criticism: It forces connections in topics or ages that are inappropriate. Criticism : It amplifies inequality in underprivileged communities because it requires access to a plethora of resources. This education also helps students to develop creativity and collaboration skills, as they often work in teams to solve problems.

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