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Creative Writing Tips to Energize Essays

Ask a Tech Teacher

Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. A member of the Ask a Tech Teacher team, when preparing an essay example for her class on the impacts of social media on mental health, used freewriting to brainstorm ideas and created a vivid opening scene describing a teenager’s day (she teaches High School), highlighting moments of social media interaction and their emotional effects.

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How District Leaders Make Edtech Purchasing Decisions

ED Surge

Imagine being a district leader tasked with selecting the ideal educational technology tools from a sea of thousands of options. The stakes are high: The right choice can transform classrooms, while the wrong one can waste precious resources. How do you decide? At the heart of this challenge is understanding how districts approach their edtech procurement decisions.

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“I Can’t Hear You with All of Your Talking”

Middle Web

Educators tend to fill every moment with our voices, writes teaching coach Patty McGee. Yet the most powerful learning can happen when we are silent, making room for student-to-student communication, customized feedback, and a trusted space for students to reveal what they know. The post “I Can’t Hear You with All of Your Talking” first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Jun 24, Problems on Solving Logarithmic Equations

Online Math for All

Problems on Solving Logarithmic Equations

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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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Multiply Positive and Negative Numbers

MooMoo Math & Science

When you multiply two negative numbers, is the answer a negative or positive number? Follow these two simple rules in order to multiply properly. 1. When both signs are the same, the answer will be positive. 2. When one sign is positive, and one is negative, the answer will be negative. For example, -5 x -4 = 20 -5 x 4 = 20 3 x 6 = 18 -4 x - = 24 This same rule applies to division of two integers.

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Rules for rounding Numbers

MooMoo Math & Science

If you need to round 65.44 to the tenth place, do you round the 4 to 5 or leave it as is? You can use this simple statement to help with this. Four or less let is rest Five or more raise the score So with this example problem you look at the 100th place and it is 4 so you keep the 10th place the same. 65.44 = 65.4 Now let's round 76.568 to the 100th place.

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