Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2024

With the increased popularity of online tutors, the Ask a Tech Teacher team has come up with some guidelines to help you select the right one for your child: How to Choose the Right Online Tutor for Your Child As many as a third of kids are given a leg up in their learning efforts by professional tutors, so there’s a high chance you’re considering this option for your child.

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2024

Students are missing a lot of classes. Chronic absenteeism, when a student misses at least 10 percent of the school year — which includes missing school for any reason, and not just unexcused absences — nearly doubled from 2019 to 2022. In May, the White House flagged chronic absenteeism as a national “challenge,” pointing toward its connection to lower reading and graduation levels.

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All About STEM

JULY 8, 2024

It’s the time of year when learners are looking to boost their CV (and their confidence) with work experience on subjects they enjoy. Springpod has a phenomenal selection of virtual work experience opportunities with prominent companies and organisations.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 8, 2024

One of the persistent research questions in computing education research (CER) is, “If you learn something in programming, can you use that something somewhere else ?” Learning scientists call this “knowledge transfer.” In the first few decades of CER, the question was whether problem-solving skills that you developed in programming could be used elsewhere.

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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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Online Math for All

JULY 8, 2024

Pre Calculus Problems and Solutions (Part - 2)

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