Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2023

This is good news for exam preparation, however. There are many educational platforms that offer courses so you can expand on your knowledge by using some of them in addition to your other study materials. You need to have a special area where you can be free from distractions and actually set your mind to studying and preparing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 4, 2017

do educators like it (fairly subjective, but there you have it). Honorable Mention: News-o- matic — age-appropriate news stories. Special Needs Tools: Winner: Sonocent — note-taking for special needs students ( see my review ). Then we looked for the following qualities: how dependable is it.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 2, 2023

Reading Assistance: Summarize: Ask it to summarize a chapter or news story. original writing, news story, webpage information) and ask it to change the reading level so that it is appropriate for the reader. Poems : Co-create customized poems for friends or family on special occasions.

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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. Sometimes, it’s challenging to involve parents in student education in a meaningful way. Fast forward to me as a K-5 teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2019

No one who even glances at the news can deny the importance of cybersecurity experts. And it’s true that every student learns differently, so educators have the additional task of making sure each student learns to his or her strengths. I know first-hand the dearth of qualified people available to fill these critical positions.

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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. 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. How do you use it in education? That has changed dramatically.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If you already use JotForm, here’s some great news: JotForm has kicked it up a notch by offering a free PDF editor. It allows educators to build a PDF form from scratch or turn an existing form into an editable PDF. The process is quick and easy and requires no special skills. Why a PDF Editor?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

It should feature a calendar that has highlighted all of the special events as well as test dates and special assignment due dates. It should only take the teacher a few moments to update the website and calendar weekly, adding in daily homework assignments, special announcements and achievements. SMS Text Messaging.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

Teachers who specialize in preparing students for college and career instinctively want tools that extend learning, support lesson plans, and simplify concepts taught in the curriculum. 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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2016

They are funny, entertaining, and often educational. This lesson plan from Dr. Pastore highlights several topics that students could create a podcast on with links to examples of podcasts that cover courses ranging from French as a second language to math. As ELA material. As a way to review material.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 4, 2023

Figjam is part of the Adobe Figma suite of tools and is free for educators and their students. How do you set up a Figma/ Figjam education account? Tom’s public education experience includes Special Education, Social Studies, educational technology coaching, and digital design. So wow, that's great news.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode of the 10 Minute Teacher podcast, host Vicki Davis sits down with Lauren Lavelle to discuss the transformative educational approach known as Genius Hour 2.0. Take a step into the future of education with EVERFI, right after today's show.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2019

It’s even easy to add extra services parents can include in their child’s enrollment like special tutoring or events. Whether you’re a camp, a nonprofit, or an educational institution, you want summer camp registration to be easy, comprehensive, reliable, and intuitive. 5 Ways to Use JotForm Cards With Your Classes.

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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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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2022

The US Department of Education Roadmap for Reopening Safely says that “accelerated learning provides opportunities for students to learn at grade level rather than through tracking or remediation….” Simply put, acceleration “builds on what students know as a way to access new learning.” Department of Education.

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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

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. For you as a job hunting educator, this becomes the best time of year to find a job. Certifications.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Accomplishing this so it serves educational goals isn’t as much about knowing how to use the tools as constructing knowledge in an organic, scalable way. Compare these seven tech skills against the five suggested by US News and the ten from Education.com. Starting in kindergarten, teach students about privacy and safety.

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STEM Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

Educators have gone above and beyond to keep students comfortable and engaged over the last 18 months. It has been a heroic challenge to adapt to new parameters—from virtual classrooms to schedule changes—but it also created a serious need for a reboot. From SEL and STEM to grade-band and topic-specific Boards (e.g., Learn More.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

I also don’t want it so specialized that students must buy extra equipment to use it. Does the web tool have educational applications ? So many fun programs are also educational, this isn’t a high hurdle. Flocabulary is an online library of over 600 educational hip-hop songs and videos for grades K-12. That’s preferable.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

The New York City Department of Education has come a long way since 2012 when I took a risk and criticized the city's conservative approach to social media. It wasn't long after that I was brought on to help New York City schools embrace social media for teaching and learning. Visit the article her e.

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Start-Engineering

JANUARY 7, 2020

Cybersecurity, as the news tells us nearly every day, is a huge challenge. Computer science has rapidly gained a foothold in K-12 education , with dozens of states increasing their time and money commitments to the field last year. He has written and spoken widely on engineering education in the K-12 arena.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Shutterstock.com) The research group also prioritises outreach and education components, so that people outside of the group can learn about its work. This day camp introduces students in grades 10 to 12 to a broad range of engineering topics through hands-on activities. What are your ambitions for the future? Yamil’s top tips 1.

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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. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. This is episode 798. That was great.

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STEM Education Guide

DECEMBER 17, 2021

She wanted to provide boxes specially designed to help children exercise creativity, develop a love of discovery, and learn about the world around them. Both educators and professionals involved in STEM-related fields advocated for introducing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) to the K-12 curriculum. What is STEAM?

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

One followed up with teachers who traded the education profession for different careers and asked them whether they found the better life they’d been searching for. This topic is clearly resonating with our readers. A former educator in Texas : “My first year teaching was in 1991. Thirty-one years and going strong here.”

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

PSTs are asked to name and provide one example of implicit bias they have experienced or observed in education/school, and one example they experienced or observed in everyday society/life. These studies show that implicit bias is ever-present in education, not only with respect to gender, but to many aspects of diversity.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Flying high Over the course of his career as a pilot, Rob has flown military jets on the front line of warzones, transported goods and passengers around Europe in commercial planes, and educated students about the intricacies of flight in the NFLC’s aircraft. “A A career as a pilot offers huge variety,” he says.

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CTE Learning

JUNE 3, 2014

Steve Waddell founder of I Support Learning, Inc and the creator of the competition contacted Denise Roderick with the good news this morning. Middle and High school students created a wide array of engaging games to teach students a variety of topics. All this while making sure their games had real educational value.

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Futurum

APRIL 25, 2023

That’s good news, since longer, more exclusive breastfeeding has important health benefits for both parent and baby, and is good for the economy and environment.” The control group spend their study sessions watching videos on infant care and topics unrelated to antenatal milk expression or breastfeeding.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Lance: Deb and I decided to do a deep dive into the National Center for Education Statistics [NCES] data on school librarians and then go even deeper by interviewing the people who make those staffing decisions. We also did a special report about the impact of COVID-19 on school libraries and employment.

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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. It’s not a topic Ruth Cady thought she’d ever be researching seriously. To support herself and her child, she got a real estate license and worked for an attorney who specialized in property law.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

But with remarkable regularity Ed would surprise me with yet another—often at first hard-to-believe—story about a situation or topic that I had no idea he’d ever been involved in. The program is composed of 42 subroutines, of which 19 were coded specially for this program and 23 were taken from the library.”)

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

“Formula” popular science books tended—for what I later realized were largely economic reasons—to consist mainly of pages of pure text, with at most line drawings, and to concentrate whatever things like photographs they might have into a special collection of “plates” in the middle of the book. But we needed many more.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

During the school vacations I would excitedly bicycle the few miles to the nearby university library to check out the latest journals and the latest news about particle physics. The closest it gets is a chapter on CP violation (AKA time-reversal violation)—a longtime favorite topic of mine—but from a very particle-physics point of view.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

And, yes, our Wolfram U operation is now emerging as a significant educational entity, with many thousands of students at any given time. But the good news is that in Version 14 we’ve basically been able to automate handling it. Shared with System Modeler are large collections of domain-specific modeling libraries.

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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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