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Unlocking AI’s Potential: Live Blog #ISTELive

Cool Cat Teacher

Tara: AI Teaching Assistant in Computer Science with OER curriculum to support students in those subjects. Rolled out an AI Chatbot called Eureka and have seen it is great help with a 30-33% drop in call volume as a result of using Eureka to support students. Found the best way to improve is by doing. How can AI support teachers?

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

The great idea is to build familiarity and confidence in programming by showing students real computer science every year. She has built a large online education resource (OER) on teaching data literacy in social studies. Her OER links to several tools for creating data visualizations, like Timeline JS , CODAP , and GapMinder.

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The information won’t just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology-assisted data literacy instruction in social studies

Computing Education Research Blog

Since this was a journal on educational technology, we mostly focused on two technologies: The OER Tammy created to support data literacy in social studies education — see link here. This is work funded in part by our National Science Foundation grant , #DRL2030919 Those were things that we could measure progress towards.

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Empowering Educators: Online Workshops for Aspiring STEM Teachers – Comprehensive Guide

STEM Education Shopping

These virtual learning experiences have become my guiding stars, providing me with invaluable knowledge and strategies to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math. In science, students should learn about the scientific method and how to conduct experiments to test hypotheses.

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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

Bir, who’s now a freshman studying computer science at Diablo Valley College in California, could relate. “As For Christopher Faidley, a middle school computer science teacher who once taught advanced technology to Bir, it’s a place to send inquisitive parents. “I And teachers say they are finding it useful.

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What it Means to Be Teaching Out of Field (OOF) and What to Do About It

Mrs. Harris Teaches

To sum it up, most science teachers are teaching subjects they were not trained in college to teach (a.k.a Many science teachers with 5 years of experience or less are teaching subjects in which they have not been prepared. As a science teacher, I can relate. Foundations of Earth Science. The short answer is, you LEARN.

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New Turnkey Project-Based Learning Resources for High School STEM Teachers

The Tech Savvy Science Teacher

All content from BLOSSOMS is OER, Open Education Resources, freely available to all. This post originally appeared on The Tech Savvy Science Teacher [link]. Financial support was generously provided to MIT BLOSSOMS by the US OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC of Ruckersville VA, Lincoln H. Miller, Jr., founder and president.

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