Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Create a holiday card for Thanksgiving or Christmas in KidPix or another drawing program and reinforce early writing skills while teaching mouse skills, toolbars and tool use: –Click for more KidPix lesson plans Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] “The content presented in this blog are the result of creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence

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Computer Science Teacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I get interesting messages from all sorts of places. Recently, I received this message on LinkedIn. I love the idea of bringing industry professionals in to talk to students. If you’re interested, check out their web page and use their contact form. I’m a software engineer at Microsoft and a volunteer computer science teacher at Kansas State School for the Blind Outside of work, I’m starting a free initiative to bring guest speakers from the tech industry into high school, community college, or

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Middle Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Mandy Manning’s book is essential reading for teachers who are new to the world of language diversity and would be a great PD resource for general education teachers and staff. Teacher Jeanette Pine finds the book clear, concise, easy to navigate, and filled with important reminders. The post How We Can Support Multilingual Learners first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Talk STEM

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We were delighted to collaborate with the Math Circle Network, a special project of the American Institute of Mathematics, in June, 2024 when our founder and CEO, Dr Koshi Dhingra, led a webinar open to all math circle leads from across the nation. We are grateful to the Math Circle Network for the kind invitation to share about talkSTEM’s math walk videos in our video library as well as our open source math walk guides that allow all educators and students to create their own math walks

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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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Basic-Mathematics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What is slope? Definition of slope, interactive exploration, along with concrete examples to enhance understanding.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Looking back at her youth growing up in Douglas, Arizona — nestled up snugly against its Mexican sister city of Agua Prieta, Sonora — Laura C. Chávez-Moreno wishes she’d had the chance to partake in bilingual education classes. She has had plenty of opportunities since then, including as a researcher who spent years sitting in on classes and interviewing students and teachers who were part of a dual language program in the Midwest.

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