Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November 2-7th: Coaching or Mentoring BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free Do any of these sound like you? Your kindergartners don’t know what ‘enter’, ‘spacebar’, ‘click’ or many other techie words mean but you need to teach them to keyboard, internet, and become digital citizens.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There’s a classroom video for every experiment! Following the amazing success of Brian Cox’s first series of school experiments, The Royal Society has produced a new set of videos and resources based on new and emerging technologies, featuring Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. The resources explore topics including genome editing, robotics and ocean acidification.

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Box Light

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Curious about how to bring your classroom projects to life with stop-motion animation? Join Hannah Daniels , MimioSTEM Product Manager, for a fun 20-minute learning lab! Learn how to use 3D printed components to boost your stop-motion animations. Plus, get practical ideas for integrating this hands-on filmmaking technique into various subjects, making learning interactive and enjoyable for your students!

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Teachers are Terrific

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

STEM Education is too important to let these words bother you! There are projects that will work for you on a budget and work with your standards and subjects you teach! Let me share a few ideas! The idea for this post came after I read an article about the reasons STEM is not a guarantee is some school systems. The two largest barriers seem to be the scarcity and cost of resources, and adhering to our state standards.

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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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STEMe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When you think of virtual reality, what do you think of? gaming? What about education? As we look to the future, education is rapidly evolving alongside technological advancements. Virtual reality headsets are one aspect of technology that many classrooms have recently incorporated. In many colleges and high schools across the United States, virtual reality has become a new and innovative tool, especially in the studies of engineering and architecture.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The victory was bittersweet. Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. It was a role Ta was eager to build on, having helped to write and lobby for a statewide bill that sought to put a student board member in each Kentucky school district.

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