ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. It’s not that they don’t do those things. It’s that those tasks are only a very small part of what Eva Stone views as a significant role within a school. Stone, manager of district health at Jefferson County Public Schools, a large district in Louisville, Kentucky, with about 100,000 students, has served as a school nurse for more th

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 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: Google extras Category: Parents Google search can be used as lots more than a resource search tool.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Speech-to-text, audio, personal drawings and pictures, and writing about things kids love are all part of helping kids get excited about writing. In today's show, we talk to 15-year educator Randi Ahrndt about encouraging kids to get excited about writing as we discuss interactive writing strategies and one of the best free tools for teaching writing.

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Computer Science Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI is not quite all there yet. Take this article from CIO magazine Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants It appears that there is still a lot of need for people who know how to code to do debugging and tuning or AI generated code.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Assessments have the power to shape educational outcomes, but are we truly measuring what matters? Ensuring that assessments are fair, inclusive and meaningful for all students is a growing priority for educators. Bias, whether systemic or unintentional, can affect accuracy, disadvantaging students from diverse backgrounds. This requires a critical look at both what and how we assess, ensuring the most important skills and knowledge are prioritized.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As fall turns to winter, parents and educators can use the winter months and holiday season to engage students in winter-themed STEM activities. By leaning into seasonal STEM activities, students can get excited about learning, and make a connection with something they love, like the holiday season! In this article, we will explore a variety of indoor STEM activities for students preschool through middle school that can be easily implemented at home or in the classroom.

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STEM Education Guide

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Magna-Tiles are the original 3-D building block. They are great for engaging both engineering & creative thinking! Every year, we write up about a few great Black Friday deals that we’re tracking to help you with your own holiday shopping research. We write these because they are our own family’s holiday list, so if I’m already doing the research, I figure why not share it?

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Online Math for All

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 72)

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