Wed.Oct 16, 2024

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12 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship–by Grade

Ask a Tech Teacher

Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Now, education can be found anywhere — teaming up with students in Kenya, Skyping with an author in Sweden, or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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Teaching Feels Like a Dead-End Job. Here’s How Schools Can Change That.

ED Surge

On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. Instead of industry or academia, however, I joined the stream of my peers entering the world of business management consulting.

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Connect with Boxlight at MassCUE 2024

Box Light

Get ready! Connect with Boxlight at the MassCUE Fall Conference, October 16-17, 2024, Booth #515 at Gillette Stadium (Foxboro, MA). Explore our innovative solutions in action and see how we’re enhancing classroom safety and boosting student engagement, making a real difference in today’s education.

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Essential AI Strategies for Every Classroom

Middle Web

Whether you’re curious to bring artificial intelligence into your lesson planning – or the rapid evolution of AI has you feeling anxious – Monica Burns’ "EdTech Essentials: 12 Strategies for Every Classroom in the Age of AI" can help guide you in the effective use of new technologies. The post Essential AI Strategies for Every Classroom first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Connect with Boxlight at Micro K12 TechFest South 2024

Box Light

Get ready! Boxlight is coming to Micro K12 TechFest South at Spirit Mountain in Grande Ronde, Oregon on October 17, 2024! Swing by Booth #306 to see our innovative solutions in action. Discover how we enhance classroom safety and boost student engagement, making a significant difference in educational practices. Don’t miss this chance to elevate the teaching and learning experience!

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How Our New AI Tool CLARITY is Teaching Valuable Soft Skills to Students

CTE Learning

Here at CTeLearning we are always seeking new ways to help students succeed, both in the classroom and the real world. Today, we are excited to introduce a new AI tool called CLARITY that will help students improve their communication skills. Over the next few weeks, CLARITY will be rolled out in all of our courses including our most popular ones– Web Design , Web and Mobile Video Game Design , and Web and Computer Animation.