Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps ( check here for updated links ): Websites and Apps 30-day Halloween fitness challeng e Build a Jack-o-lantern (in Google Slides) Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents magazine – Resolute Digital, LLC (app) Enchanted Learning Halloween games, puz

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Explore how dinosaur bones inspired spooky tales in this STEM Wednesday session. Engage in a hands-on project using the Robo 3D printer and Tinkercad.

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Teach Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If you’ve been a teacher for a while, you already know how much standardized tests shape everything from what you teach to how you’re evaluated. These tests seem to influence how you prepare lesson plans, so you may feel pressured to “teach to the test” rather than foster a love of learning. As the conversation around standardized testing grows, you may find yourself asking, “Is it helping students or harming them?

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Career in STEM

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As technology continues to shape our world, the demand for tech-savvy professionals is at an all-time high. From artificial intelligence to data science, the future job market is set to be dominated by tech careers. But this future isn’t just for adults. If children start learning how to code early, they gain a significant advantage in preparing for these high-demand roles.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2024

New uses and innovations emerge on a regular basis in the new age of artificial intelligence, many of which are in one field, specifically medicine. Large organizations like the New England Journal of Medicine and Harvard University regularly publish new uses for artificial intelligence. These innovations range in a variety of fields, from cardiology to long-term treatments.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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