Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2024

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Where Did the Taskbar Go? Category: PC, Keyboarding Q: Some programs hide the taskbar when they open.

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Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Creativity Professor 406

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2024

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service. When following these methods, a team trained in the model will work to discern the extent to which a threat made by a student is actually menacing.

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Accelerate Learning

MARCH 22, 2024

Integrating engineering concepts into elementary education is a crucial topic in this day and age. It's about preparing students for a future where technology and engineering are central. Exposure to engineering concepts at a young age boosts STEM learning and builds a problem-solving mindset, which is key for tomorrow's innovators. Engineering makes the world of technology clear and interesting to young learners.

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Elementary Engineering Schooling Critical Thinking 130

Thimble

MARCH 22, 2024

In the heart of Kenya, a revolution in education is underway, marked by resilience and empowerment. As the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) takes root, students are embracing a new language - the language of coding. MaryMargaret Welch, alongside SeaVuria, has been a beacon of change for over 14 years, fostering teacher development and igniting a passion for STEM subjects.

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Problem Solving Flexibility Innovation STEM 59

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

MARCH 22, 2024

Problems on Finding the Equation of a Line in Slope Intercept Form

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Teachers are Terrific

MARCH 22, 2024

The three books in this review post are in the top ten of Best Books Ever! Amazing, beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful. Oh, so good! This month was a weird one for me. I have only 3 books I finished. I have 4 marked DNF. Those were purely awful, too confusing, or I could not pay attention. The 3 reviewed here are the ones you need to read. “ In this post, for your convenience, you may find Amazon Affiliate links to resources.

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Physics Teaching Learning Schooling 52