April, 2023

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The Importance of Data Literacy in the Classroom

Accelerate Learning

In today’s information age, we all want to claim we’re data-literate, but what does that really mean?

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11 Online Resources About Physics

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are popular online resources for physics classes (click for updates): CK12 Physics simulations Concord Consortium –chemistry, earth science, engineering, life science, physics Crash Course: Physics (videos) Monster Physics PhET Simulations for chemistry and physics Physics Catalyst Physics Classroom Physics Forums Physics instructional videos Roller coaster simulator Simple Physics Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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What Do I Do If I Think Chat GPT Wrote my Student’s Paper?

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Perhaps the first thing teachers, students, and just about anyone who has used Chat GPT thinks is, "Oh no, we're in trouble. What will happen when kids figure out they don't have to write their paper -- that Chat GPT can do it for them." After I share the information with you in this post, you'll be even more concerned, but perhaps will find some ways that you can work with students until we have AI to help us with t

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What Kinds of Feedback Motivate Students Best?

Middle Web

Teachers are feedback machines – “we do it all day long!” – writes classroom teacher and popular blogger Larry Ferlazzo. Here he focuses on ways to give feedback that’s particularly effective at enhancing students’ sense of competence and encouraging intrinsic motivation. The post What Kinds of Feedback Motivate Students Best? 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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To Improve a Child's Education, We Must Be Willing to Let Old Practices Die

ED Surge

At the first staff meeting of the 2022 academic year, our entire team of coaches and coordinators was exhausted. We’d spent the first two weeks of the year subbing in buildings, covering lunch duties and pitching in wherever we were needed. COVID-19 was surging and our time in the buildings, while mentally and emotionally exhausting, reinforced the difficulties our students and educators were facing as they recovered from the losses of the pandemic.

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What Is RTI (Response To Intervention) In Education?

Accelerate Learning

Let’s explore the key features of Response to Intervention (RTI), a proactive multi-tiered approach to providing academic and behavioral support and intervention for identifying and addressing student needs before they escalate to more serious concerns.

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18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is inspired by Jennifer Cohen over at Forbes who wrote a wonderful article on “ 5 Things Super Successful People Do Before 8am ” (few of which I do, though I can claim #5). She includes chores like exercise, eat a healthy breakfast, map out the day–all great ideas, but not pithy enough for the average teacher I know. Here’s my list of what the average teacher accomplishes before her first class of children crosses the threshold of her domain.

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What is Chat GPT?

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter People everywhere are asking, “What is Chat GPT?” and “Why does it matter?” I'll admit when I first went into Chat GPT earlier this year, I went in and came away not super impressed. Then again, I didn't really know how to prompt it, so I wasn't getting great results.

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Invite Your Students to Peel Some Poems

Middle Web

Ramp up poetry positivity with the Peel the Fruit activity from Project Zero. Throughout the year NBCT Kathie Palmieri helps her fifth graders uncover layers of poetry understanding and then invites them to write their own. Their current favorite: the Intimate Object Poem. The post Invite Your Students to Peel Some Poems first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Teaching Was My Dream. Now I Wonder If It Is Stunting My Other Passions.

ED Surge

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. It’s about more than tests and grades. It’s about helping kids discover themselves and the world around them. The work of a teacher, at its core, is to model and reflect back what it means to live. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society.

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LCR Careers Hub: SEND Resources – Maths in the Working World

All About STEM

ASDA and Merefield School: Maths in the Working World Bringing the curriculum alive through the world of work, this resource is designed to support entry-level SEND students to understand how supermarket employees use maths in their everyday work. View the lesson resources here. This is part of Creating Careers in the Curriculum, a series of lesson resources that use the world of work to explain.

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10 Quick Math Warm-Up Activities

Accelerate Learning

When you’re looking to introduce or review a math concept, use warm-ups at the beginning of class to get students engaged and ready to dive into the class lesson. In just 5-10 minutes, students can complete a warm-up activity that gets them thinking about math and having fun right at the start of the period. It’s a great way to shift students into a math mindset and immediately engage them.

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A Short Guide to Interesting Teens in Shakespeare

Ask a Tech Teacher

William Shakespeare is internationally regarded as one of the greatest playwrights and poets in history, and his works have had a profound impact on our cultural heritage. Learning Shakespeare is a valuable and rewarding experience that can enrich our understanding of literature, language, and culture. Here’s a quick overview of how to get teens interested in Shakespeare: A Short Guide to Getting Teens Interested in Shakespeare If you’re a high school teacher, you can probably hear the gro

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Join in 80 Days of AI and HI – Day 1 #80DaysOfAIandHI

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today I showed seventh graders Chat GPT-4. We are writing ebooks, and the original topic of conversation was how we could use AI to be more creative. But when I realized that many didn't know anything about this tool, we took a trip into my GPT-4 account since they are not old enough to get their own account.

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#CelebrateWithDE: Earth Day

STEM Discovery Education

Celebrate Earth Day with Discovery Education’s collection of Earth Day activities to build an understanding of sustainability, the Earth’s natural resources, and how we can all take action to keep our planet healthy. This Earth Day, invest in our planet and inspire your students with lessons that teach about climate literacy, ending plastic use, cleaning up our planet, and sustainable fashion!

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Educators Need More Than Self-Care. They Need Self-Compassion.

ED Surge

It’s no secret that educators and school leaders endure a lot of stress, from managing classroom and school communities to monitoring staff and student morale. When that stress mounts, negative feelings can shift inward. Educators may even shoulder the expectation that they must solve every problem on their own. But there’s a way to handle that stress, and it begins with self-compassion.

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Amazing Apprenticeships: Youth Voice Census

All About STEM

Have your say in Britain’s biggest youth survey! Aged 11-30? Tell Youth Employment UK what you think about study, work and life. Your answers could make a big difference in how the UK government, employers and educators support young people. All your answers will remain anonymous. The Youth Employment UK Youth Voice Census is supported by Amazing Apprenticeships, Edge Foundation & Pearson.

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Phenomenon-Based Learning: Beyond the Buzz

Accelerate Learning

Everyone seems to be talking about phenomenon-based learning, and with good reason. It’s a powerful way to engage students, foster curiosity, and build background knowledge.

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#32: How to Use Art to Teach Grammar

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a great lesson that uses every child’s innate love of color to learn grammar. All you need is MS Word or Google Docs), a quick introduction to the toolbars and tools, and about 25 minutes to complete. If you’re the tech lab teacher, this gives you a chance to reinforce the grammar lesson the classroom is teaching and teach tech skills students need (click to enlarge): From Structured Learning’s Tech Lab Toolkit Volume I Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rig

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools? Should it be blocked? Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. We need to get practical, past the hype, and work to do that in this show.

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Battle of Generative AI Tools: ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft's Bing

The Innovative Educator

Created using Bing Image Creator OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft's Bing have quickly emerged as leading generative AI tools. Which is best? Which should you use and when? These tools are always changing and improving, but as of now, here are some of the strengths and weaknesses of each AI tool. Check it out and discover which tool to use and how to most effectively harness the potential of each.

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

ED Surge

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers. The result is a new nonprofit named Axim Collaborative, and its focus will be on serving learners that higher education has historically left behind.

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ESERO UK: STFC Borrow The Moon Resource

All About STEM

If your students love space and you’re looking for activities, it’s time to deep-dive ESERO’s resources! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be on a mission to explore their primary/secondary collections and each week we’ll showcase a resource that we land on (in case you haven’t seen it). Our clicks for this week led us to… STFC’s Borrow the Moon Box!

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Teaching Financial Literacy to STEM Students

Starfish Education

The post Teaching Financial Literacy to STEM Students appeared first on Starfish Education.

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Earth Day Class Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every year, the world celebrates Earth Day on April 22nd, a day the United Nations recognizes as International Mother Earth Day. It is a day to remind ourselves of the importance of clean air, fresh water, and unlittered land. It’s when we can all participate in making that happen rather than accepting the trash-filled oceans, the smoggy skies, and the debris-laden land that is becoming the norm in our lives.

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How to Teach Better: Master Reading Differentiation Strategies

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. If you're a reading teacher looking for ways to make your teaching more effective, you're in the right place.

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Playing

Chillax Science

The concept of playing has been on my mind a lot lately. I mean a lot. So I decided to revisit this topic in a blog post because it might be helpful to you too. We live in an era where we are so busy that we forget that children need to play. Play is an essential component of human development, and it has been widely recognized as a fundamental human need.

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They Left Teaching in Search of a Better Life. Did They Find It?

ED Surge

The breaking point for Julie Sherlock was a literal one. The elementary music teacher was burned out and so very tired, following years of feeling increasingly overburdened and bulldozed by students and administrators alike. But it wasn’t until she broke her leg last spring that she knew it was time to call it quits. Sherlock was walking down the school hallway, carrying her heated-up lunch back to her classroom to eat, when a student called out to her with a question.

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The All About STEM Competition: CREST Resources

All About STEM

We recommend CREST Awards on our All About STEM Competition Resources page alongside a host of partner activities – there are so many projects to choose from for all ages. Our competition is all about designing a new product, idea, item, or approach that solves a problem and you can use a CREST project that fits the bill as a starting point or submit your work to CREST towards an award after.

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