Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. I’ve been there often. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Tim Lum is one of millions of students who returned to college as an adult, getting a two-year degree at his local community college. And this year, at the age of 36, he's one of 13 percent of the nation's college students who transferred institutions in fall of 2023. He describes the shift from a two-year college to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, which has about 20,000 students, as one of culture shock.
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Computer Science Teacher
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Got your attention didn’t I? More and more teachers are using online coding environments to teach computer science. I used one myself to teach Advanced Placement Computer Scie3nce Principles. I’m not sure I did the right thing. Let me explain. Recently I attended a panel talk at the CSTA New England conference on what high school teachers could do to better prepare students for university level computer science.
All About STEM
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The latest edition of the British Science Association Education Newsletter is out now! If you’re looking for inspiration for British Science Week you can find new webpages to help you plan. There’s a CREST Awards project recommendation for older learners during Road Safety Week and a new blog on the power of nature-based learning.
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.
Middle Web
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Stephanie Farley has come to realize that she’s a hybrid kind of person – she enjoys the blurring of traditional lines between categories. Here she shares how she uses elements of fiction to help students conceptualize and improve their nonfiction writing. And vice versa. The post Writing: Blurring the Fiction/NonFiction Line first appeared on MiddleWeb.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EiE Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Brief recap of recent STEM activities from Youth Engineering Solutions and Engineering is Elementary at the Museum of Science, Boston
Online Math for All
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 73)
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