September, 2024

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18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom — a Video

Ask a Tech Teacher

18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: Summary 18 essential digital tools for classrooms, emphasizing their impact on modern education. Highlights Annotation Tools: Essential for digital note-taking. Avatars: Promote digital citizenship and privacy.

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Which Language 'Superpowers' Do Bilingual Students Bring to U.S. Schools?

ED Surge

Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. No need to hop over to Google Translate. Chances are good that if you were one of the 5.3 million English learners in public schools, you’d know the opening line explains that recent data has something interesting to reveal about the U.S.’s bilingual students.

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Coming to FM Radio, TV, and YouTube: Cool Cat Teacher Talk

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching in the classroom is a joy to me. My students are exceptional, work hard, constantly learn new things and continually teach me new things. My heart is in the school first and foremost. Since 2002, I've taught middle and high schools and coached teachers on instructional technology.

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LCR Creating Careers Pathways: Parent & Carer Information Sessions

All About STEM

This series, Creating Careers Pathways: Parent & Carer Information Sessions, will explore Apprenticeship and Technical Education (ATE) routes in the Liverpool City Region (LCR), designed to give you the information you need to effectively inform and prepare your young person for their best next step.

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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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Use Inquiry Charts to Boost Student Research

Middle Web

When you ask students to research a topic, what happens? Chances are some students will struggle. The authors explain how they use Inquiry Charts to help middle grades students navigate the pitfalls of research and also develop agency as researchers and knowledge builders. The post Use Inquiry Charts to Boost Student Research first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. Here are a few tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team for High School students who want to get the most out of these important years: Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students Developing a digital study plan can be a game-changer for high school students aiming to improve their academic performance.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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How to Make Schools Safer and Build Positive School Relationships

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter On September 18, episode 2 of Cool Cat Teacher talk will air on WDJY 99.1 in Atlanta at 4pm. These are the show notes for that episode. The following Wednesday, this show will air on the Cool Cat Teacher Channel on Youtube so subscribe at www.youtube.com/coolcatteacher so you don't miss an episode.

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NEW: Apprenticeship Support for Schools & Colleges (ASK) 24/25

All About STEM

The NEW Apprenticeship Support & Knowledge for Schools & Colleges Brochure is out now! Click to take a look and discover the fantastic activities and assemblies available, they’re FREE! We’re looking forward to visiting our schools and colleges to offer apprenticeship and T Level support.

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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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Boosting Comprehension Across Subject Areas

Middle Web

Comprehension is a concern in every content area. If a student cannot comprehend the material, whether it's words or images, they cannot meet learning goals. Teaching coach Barbara R. Blackburn offers some simple strategies that can help you scaffold comprehension for your students. The post Boosting Comprehension Across Subject Areas first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Five Ways to Create Immersion in the Classroom

STEM Discovery Education

Educators today wear many metaphorical hats, especially as technology develops. They are expected to become film directors, vloggers, and coding experts, not to mention navigating the world of AI and feeling the burden of their students’ online safety. It can be easy to forget that a key part of the mission of educational technology (EdTech) […] The post Five Ways to Create Immersion in the Classroom appeared first on Discovery Education Blog.

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The Role of Phosphorus Properties in Sustainable Technology for Classrooms

Ask a Tech Teacher

The Role of Phosphorus Properties in Sustainable Technology for Classrooms When you think about how to educate the next generation, what do you hope to see? A school classroom of the future, one equipped with technology for students to learn and grow, is also designed to be sustainable. Some wouldn’t regard it as just a vision because phosphorus properties are special ingredients in the development of sustainable technology for education.

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When Students Don’t Feel Confident About Math, a Growth Mindset Matters

ED Surge

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Even more concerning is that only 9 percent of Black eighth-graders are at a proficient level, or above. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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How Teachers Are Talking About AI in Education

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This episode will release on YouTube on September 18 at 11 am and first aired on WDJY FM 99.1 in Atlanta at 4 pm on September 11, 2024. These shownotes are provided for our radio and television viewers and listeners until the show releases. The YouTube video will be posted here when it goes live.

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Green Careers Week 2024: NEW Resources!

All About STEM

Green Careers Week will take place from the 4th to the 9th of November and new resources for 2024 have just been released! Green Careers Week is supported by fantastic partners including The Department of Education, The Careers & Enterprise Company, STEM Learning, UK Space Agency, and the National Careers Service.

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Assessment Tools for Back-to-School

Defined Learning

With the new school year in full swing, there is a wide range of tools and methods educators can explore to enhance student learning, from digital tools like AI-driven lesson creators to immersive technologies like augmented and virtual reality. Discover how to select the right teaching methods and tools based on purpose, promoting student engagement, and fostering essential skills through both tech and non-tech approaches like project-based learning.

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Benefits of Co-Teaching

Teach Hub

Co-teaching, where two educators work together to deliver instruction to a group of students is not just a growing trend in education, but an innovative approach that enhances and strengthens learning experiences for teachers , students, and the school. Here we’ll take a closer look at the numerous benefits co-teaching has to offer. Benefits for Students In a dual-teacher setting, students are offered a multifaceted educational experience.

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Tech Tip #139: 9 Reasons to Use Digital Books

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: Using digital books Category: Problem-solving As you discuss reading and the technology tools that inspire students in this activity, here’s a poster with nine reasons why students w

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To Be Ready for Kindergarten, Teachers and Researchers Say Social-Emotional Skills Are Key

ED Surge

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year. That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners

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How to Improve Student Engagement

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode of the Cool Cat Teacher Talk Show we explore how to engage students in learning with hands-on, playful and project based learning strategies. Additionally, we discuss the importance of “the hook” and ideas for engaging students into learning from the moment they come to class.

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Educate Awards: Shortlist Revealed! Outstanding Commitment to STEM Award

All About STEM

All About STEM is proud to be the returning sponsor of the Outstanding Commitment to STEM Award at the 2024 Educate Awards. The shortlisted entrants have just been announced! The Educate Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating education within the Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.

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Nestedly Recursive Functions

Stephen Wolfram

Yet Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely that’s not enough to be able to generate any serious complexity. In the early 1980s I had made the very surprising discovery that very simple programs based on cellular automata could generate great complexity. But how widespread was this phenomenon? At the beginning of the 1990s I had set about exploring this.

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A Way to Increase Free Reading Outside of Class

Middle Web

Free Reading Friday has transformed Laurie Miller Hornik’s 7th grade class into a reading community, without having to cut back on whole-class text studies. Students arrive on Fridays ready to talk and write about the free reading they've done outside of school during the week. The post A Way to Increase Free Reading Outside of Class first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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What You Might Have Missed in August–What’s up in September

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: 40+ Word Study Websites 15 Webtools in 15 Weeks–the video Creating and Using Curriculum Maps Video Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Digital Citizenship Tech Ed Resources–K-12 Tech Curriculum Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans 35+ Online Audio Resources 20 Online Resources About Digital Storytelling Here’s How to Get Started with Ask a Tech Teacher Here’s a preview of what’s coming up

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Cash-Starved Districts Are Turning to Four-Day School Weeks. Will That Harm Students?

ED Surge

The need was becoming dire. A school district in Brighton, in the Denver metro area of Colorado, was having a hard time keeping teachers. The salaries in the district, 27J Schools, were low for the region. And in Colorado, voters have to approve higher property taxes to send additional dollars to schools, including for salary bumps , but by 2018 voters had refused six straight times.

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Learning is a Consequence of Thinking - Mindset 5

Know Adam's Blog

The description of Mindset 5 from Dr. Ron Ritchhart’s Cultures of Thinking in Action comes from a quote from David Perkin’s book Smart Schools (1992), “Learning is a consequence of thinking. Retention, understanding, and the active use of knowledge can be brought about only by learning experiences in which learners think about and think with what they are learning.

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IChemE: Virtual Work Experience Platform

All About STEM

Engineering a Sustainable World – Ages 14-18 Amazing news! The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) will be launching a new virtual work experience platform on the 30th of September. During work experience, students can discover career routes and job roles, learn employability skills, complete tasks and quizzes and more.

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Rediscovering Joyful Work: Lessons from My Summer Job in 1988

Teach Science for All

Reflecting on My Past Work I have a tradition where every summer I consider what I want to do the following academic year. Do I want to keep working as a consultant and part-time college instructor? Or do I want to dig into something else?

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Content-related Brain Breaks for Fun Learning

Middle Web

How do we infuse fun into our classes and keep the content fresh in our students’ minds? Keeping in mind that physical activity enhances academic performance, Megan Kelly shares activities she uses with her 6th graders to have fun while emphasizing the content they are studying. The post Content-related Brain Breaks for Fun Learning first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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