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How Do Kids View Themselves? This Survey Shares the Answers

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There are likely droves of educators who find themselves wishing they could take a peek inside their students’ minds to find out, “What the heck are you thinking?” The survey also took measure of kids’ interests in science, technology, education and math. Are the Kids Alright?

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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“I just could make a bigger difference in education,” he says. Education research wasn’t new to Wieman, who these days is an emeritus professor of physics and of education at Stanford University. But with the fame brought by the Nobel, he hoped to raise the profile of educational research.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. The student’s shortcut turned out to be unreliable and could have sent her to the wrong answer in some cases.

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Summer Reading Online

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Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more. Access this catalog via the website. Some books are available in multiple languages and some are audio.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

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As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1.

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STEM Everyday #252 | Hollowed Out Kids | feat. Jeremy Adams

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And yet, as he notes, when teachers get together, they often share an arresting conclusion: Something has gone terribly wrong. Educators like Jeremy see a generation slipping away. Something essential is missing in our young people. The problems that have hollowed out our young people have been festering for years.

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How to Prepare Middle Schoolers to Save the Internet

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What we mean by “data care” For the past couple of years, we have put a great deal of effort into exactly these areas. The overarching framework that has organized these efforts at connecting individual online safety learning to career awareness and education goes by the term “data care.”