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JUNE 20, 2023

Learning time involves engaging with educational tools or resources such as e-books, instructional videos, or applications focused on teaching new skills or concepts. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends: Ages 0-18 months: No screen time at all, except for video chatting. But other experts vary considerably in their recommendations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It was clear that as I worked with these up-and-coming teachers, their first exposure to the integration of technology was in my classroom. It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. And here lies the problem.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 10, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of tech ed professionals who work together to offer you tech tips, advice, pedagogic discussion, lesson plans, and anything else we can think of to help you integrate tech into your classroom. Here’s where you look for them: Free Lesson Plans –on software programs, core tech principles, subject-specific topics.

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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. Do they understand the consequences of unbalanced budgets?

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

With back-to-school season gearing up, now is an exciting time to give your students a jumpstart on their future. 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.

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STEM Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! For this edition of the DE EdTech News Roundup, we’ll cover: Appreciating Teachers The "Tech" in EdTech Insights from Education Leaders Appreciating Teachers In case you missed it, May 8 – 12 was Teacher Appreciation Week! But EdTech is really two topics: education and technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

You’ve probably seen stories or heard from friends with listless teenagers at home, struggling with the new format. That’s a lot of good news about this massive new experiment in learning through technology. I don’t mean phone apps and games. I mean the basics of how to use the tech tools that are driving learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s my New Year’s resolution for higher education: extend the reach of research to the people. There is a robust agenda for academia’s future, including code sharing, registered reports and accessibility. Sometimes, the literature on a given study topic is just mixed. The public, less so.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

She encourages teachers to shift their mindset from apprehension to curiosity and eagerness to learn something new. As the landscape of education technology rapidly changes, Rachelle shares some ideas of what the future of classroom learning could look like. She is currently working on two new books for educators.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. For student work to be relevant, students must be engaged, responsible for the learning and involved in reporting that to stakeholders. .

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With back-to-school season gearing up, now is an exciting time to give your students a jumpstart on their future. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Early exposure to technology can help children develop digital literacy skills. And especially with littles, the time should be limited.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. Later, I describe and show the work of my students. Boy, have times thankfully changed, but I have not.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2019

I have to break the news to them that isn’t true. If they eat a cookie over a friend’s keyboard and dribble crumbs into the spacebar and Delete key, they’re not going to be welcome in the future when those keys–and more–stop working. This isn’t work to them.

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Get Caught Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

Earth Day this year is on a Saturday in April, although the earth’s environment is a topic that can be studied year-round in the classroom. Spring is a great time to assess students’ knowledge on the topic as well as research and explore resources that are available for teachers. The bad news is, humans throw away too much trash.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2018

When students graduate from high school, a majority enter the working world where they are expected to balance budgets, pay bills, and submit rent and car payments on time. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad news is it’s not mandatory. How the Stock Market Works.

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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. Do they understand the consequences of unbalanced budgets?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. Because these are so new, there are questions regarding privacy, applicability to school, and COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) compliance for children younger than thirteen.

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The Science Penguin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

They work together to match them up and organize their information in a table. You can even go further by having students design prototypes of solutions and read current news articles about poor water conditions (pollution, access, lead, inequities) throughout the United States. Microclimates: What factors influence microclimates?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Fingers point all directions but nothing changes the stark truth: Something causes kids to hate learning so much that they’d rather face their future without the knowledge or skills to do so successfully. ” Games remind kids of days when they chose their own seats, worked at their own pace, and responded to their own interests.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

By high school, the pressure to prepare students for their future is immense. Here’s how it works: S (Substitution) — use technology in place of a traditional tool. The videos are well-produced with professional sound effects and animations that contribute to learning the topics. Of course they do! Free, web-based.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. What is broken that we can improve upon?

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 11, 2023

Do you want to explore new and innovative ways of enhancing your educational experience? By integrating technology and hands-on activities, students can develop important skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, setting them up for success in the future. Are you tired of traditional classroom learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

These webtools offer standard topical text that can be quickly personalized, saved for re-use in the future, and easily updated year-to-year to reflect changes in the curriculum and desired learning outcomes. Decide which works the best for you: Rubistar. Decide which works the best for you: Rubistar.

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PCS Edventures

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Learners are entering a new economic era. There is no doubt that people are looking to take charge of their futures. Keep reading to see how these STEM programs develop each entrepreneurial skill in a way that works for all learners. This begs the question: Are we preparing students to be entrepreneurs?

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Smore Science

JUNE 2, 2022

Science in the News. Showcases the freshest cutting-edge science news from around the world. Into the Future. Watch me Work. The articles cover a wide range of topics such as space science, biology, earth science, and archeology that will surely appeal to a wide range of readers. This is where Smore comes in.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

Students in many schools are now routinely engaged in constructing robotic-based equipment that works with devices like Raspberry Pi and, in so doing, are truly exemplifying what it means to be living as a creative 21 st century learner. He graduated from Suffolk University with a Bachelor’s degree in Print Journalism.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

You consider yourself darn lucky to be working with colleagues that are friends and a boss who always puts your needs first. There are dozens of reasons, from new bosses who want to shake things up to your husband gets a job in a different state. Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Published: At first glance, a student’s exam scores might seem like an uncomplicated way to measure academic ability.

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STEM Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

This milestone marks a new chapter in our unwavering commitment to teachers and students and our passion for teaching and learning. 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! Meet The Big Kids! Where You’ll Find Him.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These include: spraying a fire with large volumes of water or fire retardant (from the ground or through aerial attack); creating fuel breaks (areas cleared of vegetation by heavy machinery) to stop fire spread or provide safer places for fire fighters to work from; back-burning to reduce or remove fuel/vegetation in strategic areas (e.g.

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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. Do they understand the consequences of unbalanced budgets?

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CSTEM

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Manufacturing Jobs of the Future. 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. It all begins with STEM education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Digital Citizenship.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 10, 2023

His work could help make huge breakthroughs in healthcare, climate change, environment and water scarcity research. Using adsorbents to help society Published: You will likely have heard of absorption before, but have you heard of adsorption? Adsorption allows various molecules to be both captured and separated from each other.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2016

In most cases, parents have welcomed this new leaning phenomenon known as EdTech. There are some parents who equate EdTech with “new math” and Common Core, terms that send shudders through some segments of our population. Long instructional lectures by teachers are rare. What type of technology devices will the children be using?

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 28, 2023

1 ) The Role of a STEM Teacher Source: Scripps News As a STEM teacher, you’ll be responsible for fostering students’ curiosity and love for science, technology, engineering, and math. Through interactive discussions and group work, I promote collaboration and communication among students.

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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. Using big datasets to find out what affects children’s quality of life. Professor Birgitta Rabe is using this data to inform government support for children’s well-being.

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