ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if why you choose to become a teacher determines how successful you will be in the role? Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession. We think about their career trajectory and consider its relevance to ourselves or people we know. What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they wil

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All About STEM

AUGUST 5, 2024

National Coding Week is going to be so much fun! National Coding Week begins on the 16th of September 2024 and this year, the theme is artificial intelligence (AI). National Coding Week encourages people to engage with coding, whether they are complete beginners or seasoned professionals looking to enhance their skills.

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Middle Web

AUGUST 5, 2024

2024 is another fantastic year for new middle grades books with many more titles to come in the next few months. ELA teacher Kasey Short introduces titles for school and class libraries that are sure to appeal to your students. Fantasy, immigration, science, WW II, and more! The post Welcome Students with New Fiction for Fall first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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All About STEM

AUGUST 5, 2024

Lottie’s tour starts today! We have followed Lottie’s adventures for many years and can’t wait to see where she visits this summer. “WES Lottie Tour is an annual campaign that takes ‘Lottie’ to many different locations accompanying lots of different engineering friends who show Lottie the work they do in engineering and related careers.

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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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Computing Education Research Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

“ It’s the end of Computer Programming as We Know It ” wrote Farad Manjoo in the NYTimes last June. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said earlier this year that programming is no longer important: “It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human,” Jensen Huang told the summit attendees.

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