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How Sensory Rooms Help Students with Autism Thrive

Teach Hub

For example, they don’t like the feeling of a tag on their clothes, they may be sensitive to loud sounds, or a smell bothers them more than it should. Accommodating or regulating these sensory issues can help ease discomfort and help children with autism manage their emotions.

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Prepping for Back to School

STEM Discovery Education

It’s important to take the time to look back on the last year, recognize challenges faced and lessons learned, and incorporate those experiences into prepping for this back-to-school season. I was challenged to design and incorporate lessons that encouraged collaboration through project-based learning. Onward & Upward!

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10 Great Virtual Reality Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a learning tool, it’s affordable, inclusive, and worth the moderate learning curve required to get it up and running. It is crowd-sourced and sorted by tag, name, Panorama title, location, brief description, link, with a cell where teachers can note any additional required materials. Expeditions . InMind VR.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

Cool Cat Teacher

We need to get practical, past the hype, and work to do that in this show. This is also episode 800. We always celebrate when arriving at such milestone episodes so I have my son, John, share the stats for the first eight hundred episodes and we have a little fun. I hope this extended episode serves as a helpful addition to the AI discussion.

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How to Plan a STEAM Program

PCS Edventures

Learn how to foster cross-curricular, learner-to-learner and classroom-to-world connections in our blog post: How Hands-On STEM Transforms Classroom Instruction. Classroom management becomes easier with increased participation and self-directed learning. Social-Emotional Learning needs can be met more easily.

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As Schools Turn to Tech for Mental Health Support, the Best Solution Might Be More Analog

ED Surge

Yet there are other, more traditional ways that education and after-school programs can boost student well-being, too, including hosting social experiences for kids and staffing schools with more health professionals — two strategies that are sometimes strapped for adequate finances. It’s low-cost and high-reward.” Is More Tech the Answer?

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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

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Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. Selection can be either a theme-based video or a game (called GameUp) — whichever is better suited to their learning style. So why do students turn to it for news? It’s notable that most are free, but include advertising.

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