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How to Improve Essay Writing Skills–Tips and Strategies

Ask a Tech Teacher

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here are four tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team to get you started: How to Improve Essay Writing Skills: Abbie Kay from State of Writing Giving Tips and Strategies for Students Improving essay writing skills is crucial for students aiming to excel academically.

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Putting People First as Higher Ed Grapples With AI

ED Surge

The urgency for higher education institutions to integrate and create policies for using AI technology in the classroom is rapidly increasing. Colleges also must adequately account for its impact on their current and future workforce. I believe that placing people, not technology, at the center of these decisions is how educators should embrace AI, discover new ways of incorporating its capabilities, and use its power to promote equitable student success.

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Equity for MLs Begins with Equitable Schedules

Middle Web

Equity can be found in many places in the school – on the walls, on bookshelves, and in policies. The best place to check for equity for multilingual learners is by examining teacher and student schedules. Tan Huynh describes the practices that lead to equitable scheduling. The post Equity for MLs Begins with Equitable Schedules first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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How to Evaluate and Select the Right Edtech Products [Infographic]

ED Surge

Today’s education leaders have unprecedented access to edtech products, but there’s no clear way to determine a product’s quality or effectiveness for learning. How can decision-makers know if a product meets learning standards and drives student achievement without a shared definition of what makes a product usable, valuable and effective? Recommended Resources ISTE’s Advancing Edtech Evaluation and Selection page includes a set of user-friendly resources designed to help teachers and education

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Maximizing Outdoor Communication with Portable Audio

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Picture a bustling school field, students eager for physical education. But amidst the excitement, the PE teacher's instructions get lost in outdoor noise, frustrating both students and teacher. What can help them enjoy the activity? A portable audio system, equipped with advanced audio features, can amplify communication clarity, enhancing outdoor learning experiences and activities.

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New Hampshire Dept. of Education and CoderZ Recognize Highland Goffe’s Falls Elementary Educator for Excellence in STEM

CoderZ

This is CoderZ’s second year of presenting the “Excellence in STEM Award” to educators who use the New Hampshire Robotics Grant for STEM programs MANCHESTER, NH, UNITED STATES, April 25, 2024 — On Tuesday, April 30, New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) officials and CoderZ executives will visit Highland Goffe’s Falls Elementary School in Manchester, N.H. to present an “Excellence in STEM Award” to educator Kerstin Dumas who serves as the literacy specialist and robotics coach for

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Apr 29, Trigonometry Quotient Identities

Online Math for All

Trigonometry Quotient Identities

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