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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

National STEM Day is November 8, 2024, the unofficial holiday that celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education throughout the United States. Many add ‘art’ to the celebration for the acronym, STEAM. Here are some great ideas that remind your students of the excitement that is these core subjects: Ten Ways to Celebrate National STEM Day with NASA National STEM Day focuses on helping students advance in STEM fields, a priority of NASA as we continue to

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In the Spring Term 2025, STEM Learning is running a free online student mentoring programme, funded by GSK. All About Futures/ All About STEM is managing school engagement in the Cheshire & Warrington, Merseyside, Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire regions. “We’re requesting that schools express their interest now if they might wish to be involved.

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Basic-Mathematics

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A variety of basic mathematics games that will really help you sharpen your basic mathematics skills with unlimited practices.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

|Phoenix, Arizona Many know Scrabble as an easy and fun board game played during rainy days and family game nights, but it is so much more than that. Every time you play Scrabble, it affects your brain in fascinating ways. By playing consistently, you are exercising the areas of your brain involved in visual perception, decreasing your reliance on language semantics, and enhancing your lexical processing and analysis skills, all of which are significant and applicable in everyday life.

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