October, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence in Education: Anecdotal Evidence

Ask a Tech Teacher

Artificial Intelligence has made its way into our classrooms. Good or bad, only time will tell but some early reports say there are some real positives about using AI-powered program to boost literacy. Here’s an article from Hechinger Report , a national nonprofit newsroom that reports only on education, that’s pretty interesting: Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

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8 Great Chrome Accessibility Extensions for Students

Educators Technology

In this post, I am sharing with you 8 great Chrome accessibility extensions to use with students in class. The purpose is to enhance digital equity and make learning accessible to all students. Using.read more.

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5 Awesome New Screencastify Features

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencastify is more than a screencasting tool. You can now screencast, edit, quiz, see student analytics, get feedback, and more using Screencastify. In this post, I’ll share some of the new features in Screencastify and how I’ve used it in my classroom. Note that Screencastify has been one of my favorite formative assessment tools since 2018 when I wrote 10 Ways to Use Screencasting for Formative Assessment.

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Student Choice and Voice Can Equal the Best Day Ever

User Generated Education

As is true for a lot of progressive educators, I have a belief in and attempt to practice the implementation of student voice and choice: Sometimes this means fully letting go of the reins so learners become fully self-directed. I had the privilege of witnessing this in action one afternoon last week. I use the word, “witness,” as it was fully and totally due to the actions of one student.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Teaching with Mathematical Discourse | Part 3

Accelerate Learning

Introduction. Children are naturally curious, always asking questions about this or that. As teachers, it is our responsibility to foster their curiosity about math, answer questions, and ask our own questions. Indeed, employing the Socratic questioning method in the math classroom has gained traction over the years for its many advantages.

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Halloween Projects, Websites, Apps, Books, and a Costume

Ask a Tech Teacher

Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps ( check here for updated links ): Websites and Apps. 30-day Halloween fitness challeng e. Build a Jack-o-lantern (in Google Slides).

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10 Great Chrome Tips for Teachers and Educators (2021)

Educators Technology

Below is a collection of some useful Chrome tips to help enhance your productivity while browsing the web. I particularly compiled the tips with teachers and educators in mind but these can work.read more.

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3 Steps for WORD Workouts to See Better Social Emotional Health and Learning

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Social emotional health matters. WORD Workouts are a fantastic way to help students connect with their emotions. Additionally, these quick lessons promote student social emotional health. In these times, we know that helping students express how they are feeling can help them better cope with their emotions.

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Watching Them Learn

User Generated Education

I have been very intentional in the public school teaching jobs I have chosen. First I was a PE teacher, now I am a gifted education teacher. I chose these jobs because I believe in active, hands-on, and joyful learning. I love being able to provide them with learning experiences not based on preparing them for toxic tests, but on how humans learn naturally outside of school settings.

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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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Member profile: Lee Meadows of the Alabama STEM Council

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CER Sentence Starters Help Students Form Claim Evidence Reasoning

Know Adam's Blog

Teachers know the feeling – it's either absolute silence in your classroom when it's time to kick-off a classroom discussion, or everyone is talking at once and over each another. One of the tools I have used to help students get comfortable talking in the classroom while implementing KnowAtom's inquiry-based science curriculum is sentence starters.

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Tract–A new way to learn

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Tract is a peer-to-peer, on-demand, project-based learning platform designed for grades 3-12. It includes classes and lesson plans, even themed clubs. It focuses on building student creativity, critical thinking, and independence–skills students need to become prosperous, happy adults. Overview. If you haven’t heard of Tract, that’s alright.

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Free QR Code Generators- Easily Create QR Codes to Share with Students

Educators Technology

In this post, I am sharing with you some of the best free QR Code generators for teachers and students. QR Codes are readable barcodes that store various types of data (e.g., the URL of a.read more.

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STEM Challenges and Books for Elementary Students During the Month of January

Carly and Adam

*This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. By clicking on the links and making a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. STEM Challenges and Books for Elementary Students During the Month of January When you can captivate students by the possibility of something new and imaginative, it can lead to opportunities for learning in STEM, design and making.

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Fall Ten Frame Printables

The STEM Laboratory

Ten frames are one of my favorite tools in the classroom for building number sense. Since my students loved our apple ten frame printables, I knew they would love to work with some fall ten frames as well! These fun printables are great way to build number recognition and counting skills with preschoolers and kindergarteners. Getting Ready. These fall ten frames were a cinch to prep.

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The Case for Science and STEM Notebooks

Starfish Education

Picture this: You’ve got 30 students. Some struggle with content, some struggle with organization and others struggle with responsibility. Sound familiar? For most of us, it resonates well. So how. The post The Case for Science and STEM Notebooks appeared first on Starfish Education.

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STEM Everyday #216 | YouTube Stars are Educators Too | feat. Grace Dirig from The King of Random

STEM Everyday Podcast

“The second you’re the smartest person in the room is the moment you stop learning things.” Grace Dirig, the new face of mega popular YouTube channel, The King Of Random (or TKOR), which currently boasts more than 12.6M followers, joined the channel after a nationwide search for a new member to join the TKOR family. The then college student majoring in Meteorology fit the bill—armed with the knowledge, passion, curiosity, and personality to push the channel forward in its adven

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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

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Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Often, these go undiagnosed as students, parents, and teachers simply think the child is not a good reader, is lazy, or is disinterested. Thankfully, the International Dyslexia Association sponsors an annual Dyslexia Awareness Month in October aimed to expand comprehension of this little-understood language-based learning condition.

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10 Great Halloween Books for Kids

Educators Technology

The Halloween season is a time for 'spooktacular' fun. Our kids and students love to celebrate it their own way but as teachers and educators we also have our own way to create out of it.read more.

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STEM Challenges and Books for Elementary Students During the Month of December

Carly and Adam

*This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. By clicking on the links and making a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. STEM Challenges and Books for Elementary Students During the Month of December STEM learning is the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math. It is a hands-on way for kids to extend their learning in these subject areas while developing creativity and critical thinking skills.

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The Physics – and Mystery – of Radio

STEM Education Works

When I was a kid, I had a pair of Star Wars walkie talkies that I got for Christmas one year. They were especially cool because, instead of just being single handheld units like “normal” walkie talkies, they came with headsets that you could wear, meant to look like the headsets worn by Luke and Han during the TIE fighter attack scene in A New Hope.

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CANCELLED – STEM Harvest Fest

Northeastern University

Due to inclement weather, this event is unfortunately cancelled. We’re extremely sorry about the last minute cancellation and are immensely thankful for your interest in participating in the event. We will be having another expo, Engineering for Everyone Expo , during National Engineers Week on Friday, February 25th (during BPS vacation week).

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Promising STEM Careers Don’t Always Require a Degree

CSTEM

Written by: Reagan Flowers, Ph.D. Do high-paying STEM careers require college degrees? Here at C-STEM, we focus on K-12 STEM education, often with the goal of a college degree. Ultimately, we strive to give underrepresented students the opportunities they need to establish fulfilling careers and turn the tide for the next generation of students. However, with STEM careers continuing to multiply faster than ever, we’re finding that some of these careers do not require a college degree.

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Subscriber Special: November

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Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November. Sign up for our newsletter. Then get 10% off your next purchase! First Name. Last Name. Special Interest: Email Format. html. text. Marketing Permissions Structured Learning will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing.

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10 Effective Ways Students Can Use Google Arts & Culture to Enhance Their Cultural Literacy

Educators Technology

Google Arts & Culture is an interactive platform that explores the intersection of art and culture with history, science, and technology. The potential of Google Arts & Culture in education.read more.

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Celebrating Youth Voices in STEM on International Day of the Girl

STEM Next

Guest blog from Suzanne Eisenberg, a freshman at New Mexico Tech, majoring in astrophysics, and recipient of NMOST’s Advancing Young Women Scholarship. When I was younger, I never thought I was going to be “good” at science. I didn’t even consider that I could one day have a career in STEM. Now, as a college freshman studying astrophysics, my confidence in my STEM capabilities is a world of difference from where I began.

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9 Favorite Picture Books for STEM Challenges

Teachers are Terrific

Picture books in your STEM class, really? Why not? One question I am asked all the time is what scenario I use to set up a STEM activity. The answer varies with each challenge, but I might say a video, a real-life description, a rescue scene, a photograph, or a PICTURE BOOK! Kids love being read to so why not use this to introduce a STEM challenge?!

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Apple Ten Frame Printables

The STEM Laboratory

Adding in seasonal themes to everyday learning activities can be super motivating for kids. These apple ten frame printables are a great way to work on numbers and counting with preschoolers and kindergarteners this fall! . They’re even great for a back to school activity! Getting Ready. These printable ten frame activities couldn’t be simpler to prepare.

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STEM Theme for your kid's birthday

Top 10 Sciencekits

Every parent knows that celebrating our kids birthday can be a very stressful thing - As parents, we want our kids to have the best celebration possible, we want them to smile, laugh, and just have fun with their friends and family. But, to make all of this happen, year after year, parents need to be on constant search for the perfect birthday theme.

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Remote Learning Varies Around the Country

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Remote learning used to be for snow days or virtual schools–alternatives to the traditional. Now, all public schools are coming up with remote learning plans. But they vary. Here’s a great article in K-12 Dive on that subject: Geography, socioeconomics created significant variation in pandemic learning plans. Remote learning plans filed by school districts last year in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming varied by connectivity, geography and poverty levels, according to a repo

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Top 7 Halloween Apps for Students

Educators Technology

Time for some spooktacular fun during this Halloween season! Here are 7 good Halloween apps to use with kids and young learners to engage them in immersive Halloween-inspired learning experiences.read more.

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Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica, and Looking Forward

Stephen Wolfram

From the 30th anniversary of Mathematica, see also: “ We’ve Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet!) ”. Mathematica 1.0 was launched on June 23, 1988. So (depending a little on how you do the computation ) today is its one-third-century anniversary. And it’s wonderful to see how the tower of ideas and technology that we’ve worked so hard on for so long has grown in that third of a century—and how tall it’s become and how rapidly it still goes on growing.