Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free to Ask a Tech Teacher subscribers: Summary This video discusses using student presentations to enhance speaking and listening skills, aligning with Common Core standards. Highlights Engaging Topic: Student presentations warm up students and foster excitement for learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teigue Linch recalls the email she got from Pine Forest, her daughters’ child care center in Burlington, Vermont, encouraging families to take advantage of the new state law that allows more people to qualify for child care assistance. But Linch, who works full time as an office manager for an engineering company, has twin 17-month-old toddlers, a long to-do list and the heavy mental load shared by all parents of young children.

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STEM Everyday Podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Cameron Ross is a Digital Learning Coach and teacher in Melbourne, Australia. His role includes helping teachers build ICT (Information, Communication, Technology) skills and make sure that they’re not just using “tech for tech’s sake.” His classroom duties allow him to model lifelong learning for students while teaching them important computing skills.

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Box Light

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Implementing effective and consistent STEAM instruction can be challenging, especially when trying to nurture creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The Xploris all-in-one STEAM solution helps overcome these hurdles by offering an engaging, comprehensive platform that supports K-5 educators in fostering essential 21st-century skills from an early age.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Newton STEM

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Lemelson-MIT is presenting three webinars for high-school students to explore Intellectual Property (IP) — how to protect ideas. The webinars are useful for debate clubs to learn more about this year’s national debate topic on IP but are open to all. Register here. Orientation to the intellectual property system: September 11 ( recording available here ) Hot topics regarding U.S.

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Newton STEM

OCTOBER 21, 2024

October 21-25 is Massachusetts STEM Week. Events scheduled for the MetroWest area include: Tuesday October 22 , 10AM: Backyard and Beyond: Working in the Garden at the Discovery Museum in Acton Tuesday, October 22 , 3:30PM: Vinci STEAM Robotics Workshop at the Needham Free Library, Grades 3-7 Wednesday, October 23 , 1PM: Early Career STEM Alumni Panel hosted by Mass Bay Community College on Webex ( details ) Wednesday, October 23 , 3:30PM: See Yourself in the Green Workforce: Expl ore, Share &#

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Basic-Mathematics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Look for the area of triangles by generating unlimited worksheets using a visual format and a text-based format

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