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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. An AI tool that takes recorded audio from a classroom and turns it into data about who talked and for how long, it seemed like a cool way for York to discuss issues of data privacy, consent and bias with her students.

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#45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography

Ask a Tech Teacher

Time: About 30 minutes Steps: Open MS Word. Add a title–Where We Are (or your choice)–centered, bold and font 14. Use this to teach students about the tool bar’s alignment tools, bold, fonts and font size Insert a graphic organizer ( insert-diagram or one you have pushed out to students). Have this as part of a series of lessons that use graphic organizers and never use the same one.

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The IEP Journey: The Heart of Special Education Planning

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In today's episode, we sit down with Stephanie DeLussey, a dual-certified veteran special education teacher, IEP coach, and author of the upcoming book “The Intentional IEP.” Stephanie shares her unique insights into the often daunting process of writing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

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A three-headed monster

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The more I look around higher education, the more clearly it seems to me that there are three practices which we carry out every day – which seemed baked right into the very DNA of our current system of higher education – that are inimical to the actual purpose of higher education. Those practices are: Lecturing , Traditional grading , and Student evaluations of teaching.

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

ED Surge

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all in our heads. But what if those typical metaphors for our brains are limiting our capacities to think and learn?

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8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. As I said in the first article, with so many things grabbing the attention of administrators, AI seems to be taking a back seat in the minds of many.

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Empowering Education: Interactive Assessments and Innovative Tools

Box Light

Educators worldwide face the challenge of assessing students effectively. The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for interactive assessments to keep students engaged, whether in-person or online. For instance, interactive displays became valuable tools for remote learning and adhering to social distancing guidelines when students returned to in-class instruction.

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What to Know About the Relationship Between Teacher Turnover and Housing

ED Surge

Today, a 20-acre stretch of green space known as the “ Coy facility ” remains an active school campus in East Austin. But soon, Austin Independent School District will convert it into an apartment complex to house teachers and staff who are increasingly getting priced out of the urban Texas district. The goal is to create at least 500 new rental units on the site, alleviating — if not solving — the housing burden that so many of the district’s 10,000 staff members say they face.

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7 Tips for Using Social Media for Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

Tell me if this sounds familiar: With the 2023 New Year, you resolved to build your Professional Learning Network –finally, to stop living in the 20th century where your world revolved around a sticks-and-bricks building, a landline phone, and the mailbox. You joined all the big social media platforms (X, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogging–just for starters).

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We Need to Accelerate, Not Remediate Learning

Middle Web

As educators search for the best instructional approaches and resources to address the effects of disrupted and unfinished learning, they should reject remediation and identify strategies that accelerate the learning experience of students, write Sonya Murray and Gwen Turner. The post We Need to Accelerate, Not Remediate Learning first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art? Published: While art and science are often separated in academia, there is a lot to be learnt by considering them together. Dr Dirk Bernhardt-Walther and Dr Claudia Damiano , at the University of Toronto in Canada, and Dr Pinaki Gayen , at Visva Bharati University in India, are combining their expertise in cognitive neuroscience and visual art to investigate patterns in how abstract art conveys specific emotions.

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Empowering Teachers and Inspiring Students for a STEM-Driven Future

ED Surge

Education is an indispensable profession in our world today, as teachers play a pivotal role in equipping students for the challenges of the future, enabling them to be successful at every stage in life. The positive impact of teachers has been extensively substantiated through years of research highlighting that teacher effectiveness is the most important school-based factor related to student achievement and outcomes.

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CTeLearning Course Updates for the 23-24 School Year

CTE Learning

We are so proud to be working with a great lineup of schools from all over the country in the 2023-2024 school year. Whether we are working with a school for the first year or the 15th year, we appreciate all the teachers, administrators, parents and students who have chosen to work with us. We spent the summer hard at work improving our curricula and are pleased to announce changes that will enhance the learning experience for students and teaching experience for teachers.

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Wellness? Productivity? Meet While You Walk!

Middle Web

Walking meetings are not only a good wellness strategy, they’re great for brain-storming, problem-solving and increasing productivity, writes teacher and school leader Kasey Short. The change in scenery, relaxed atmosphere and movement can be like a “reboot” for body and mind. The post Wellness? Productivity? Meet While You Walk! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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talkSTEM High School Interns’ Perspectives

Talk STEM

talkSTEM refers to STEM as a “real-world, inquiry-based exploration of the world around us, to break down artificial barriers between disciplines” In a Women in Tech panel hosted by the University of Dallas at Texas in collaboration with talkSTEM, a STEM mindset was defined as learning how to continuously educate oneself, explore, and become brave enough to make mistakes.

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Top Three Open Educational Resource (OER) Databases

Career in STEM

Open educational resources (OERs) are those that are “freely available to the public, both technically and legally, to use and redistribute without limitation” ( U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Educational Technology , 2017). OERs are: Public – available to all to no cost. Accessible – available in a machine-readable format that is non-exclusive and usable without restriction.

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Volunteer Training Day – STEM Field Trips (9.22.2023)

Northeastern University

Last Friday (9.22) we had our Volunteer Training Day for the Fall 2023 semester. Many volunteers came out to learn what their role would be in any upcoming field trips, got their questions answered on how to get involved, as well as got hands-on experience with some of the events that are held during field trips. The first activity that our volunteers participated in was the Reverse Egg Drop, where teams of 2 split off to create a device that would protect an egg (an activity that our visitors d

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Routines Can Help Grow Student Literacy Skills

Middle Web

This year Katie Durkin’s 7th grade ELA students are involved in a weekly routine of G.R.O.W. work (Grammar, Reading, Open Write, and Word Work). Each 15-minute lesson aims to ‘grow’ stamina and literacy skills they can apply in her class and across the academic disciplines. The post Routines Can Help Grow Student Literacy Skills first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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MathFinder Infusion in Summer Camp at the Dallas Arboretum

Talk STEM

We are grateful to our MathFinder partner sites and other partners who infused our open-access resources available here during summer camp this year. Our friends at the Dallas Arboretum shared a little about MathFinder activities during summer camp this year! The Dallas Arboretum partnered with our MathFinder initiative during this year’s Great Contributors Summer Camp !

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Week 4 23-24

Ms. Boyce

A wonderful week 4 in the STEAM Lab with Ms. Hernandez, Ms. Nicholson, Ms. Amos, Mr. Garza, Ms. P. Guzman, and Mr. Cruz's classes!

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Register now for TransportationYOU Summit, Oct. 28

Newton STEM

WTS-Boston will host the 2023 TransportationYOU Summit on October 28 , 10AM-2PM, for students in ages 8-14 of all gender identities, with a particular focus on educating girls and young women about the collegiate and career opportunities available to them in STEM, and particularly int transportation fields. The Summit, held in person at UMass Lowell (31 University Ave., Lowell), will have in-person, hands-on workshops and activities hosted by professionals in the field to introduce students to c

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Sep 25, SAT Math Questions and Answers

Online Math for All

SAT Math Questions and Answers

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5 Tips from talkSTEM/Comerica Teacher Fellow for Elementary Math Classrooms!

Talk STEM

Engaging students in Math and STEM learning can be difficult at times – and talkSTEM is here to help. talkSTEM resources can work in conjunction with the new Eureka Math curriculum, launched this school year across the Dallas Independent School District, encouraging students not just to learn, but to ask why. Check out these tips from talkSTEM/Comerica Teacher Fellows, Megan Acosta, on how to mix things up and keep kids wanting to talk STEM!

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HMSC exhibition: Surveillance – From Vision to Data

Newton STEM

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture has opened a new exhibition, Surveillance: From Vision to Data associated with its Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (1 Oxford Street, Cambridge). The exhibition extends beyond cameras and their watchers to explore the profound influence of data, highlighting historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data.

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Sep 24, Velocity and Acceleration

Online Math for All

Velocity and Acceleration

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