Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

They Call Me Mom. by Pete Springer. 5/5. x. Pete Springer’s memoir They Call Me Mom (Outskirts Press 2019) about his first years teaching will delight new teachers and have experienced educators nodding along with him. As a teacher, Pete’s early experiences remind me of the joy inherent in teaching: “This job required about as much brainpower as my tree planting experience.”. “This is the story of how I fell in love with teaching and the joys and challenges that this noble prof

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Our classrooms are culturally diverse with students coming from different racial, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds. Diversity is a pedagogical strength which we should draw on to prepare culturally.read more.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tiffany Wycoff, the co-author of the bestselling book, Blended Learning in Action , talks about the state of blended learning today. She shares how some teachers are battling blended learning burnout but that it is necessary for learning today and how we move forward. Sponsor: Screencastify.

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Accelerate Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Hitting her one-year anniversary as a STEMscopes writer, Rachel Neir brings her bright smile and big ideas to everything she does. According to her team, “Texas teachers are so lucky she is helping us develop a new product for them.". With a B.S. in education fr. om Northern Illinois University, Neir currently teaches fifth grade science and social studies at a public school in Texas.

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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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Computer Science Teacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Among the programming projects I ran into recently was one to calculate all of the combinations of letters one could make from a phone number. Companies do this sort of thing all the time. They generate the combinations and then look for words related to their business so they can use it as a mnemonic and help people remember their phone number. Probably a bigger deal before domain names than now but still useful.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Lots of kids think technology is technical, another word for complicated/difficult/math-like. Here are six websites students can visit that will change their minds: Note: Mr. Picasso Head is no longer available. Click image to enlarge if it’s blurry. –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Here are more online art websites: BigHuge Labs.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Undoubtedly, digitality has radically transformed almost every facet of our life for the better (or at least that is what I hope is the case). For us in education, our dependence on the services.read more.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thomas Arnett from the Christensen Institute Shares What the Insitute has learned from administrators and teachers about best practices for teaching during the pandemic. Sponsor: Screencastify. This year, I introduced the free screencasting tool, Screencastify, the first week of school to all of my students so they could record screencasts.

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Accelerate Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Math is often valued for its objective quality. We all know the saying, “The numbers don’t lie.” Math may be a matter-of-fact discipline, but students have a lot of feelings about math, and those feelings aren’t always warm fuzzies. Some love it. Others hate it. Many stress over it. The emotional quality of these reactions makes math uniquely well-suited to the teaching of social emotional learning (SEL).

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Computer Science Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Recently I came across a Microsoft Research project called AI for Programming Education. The project “goal is to build a personalized and autonomous intelligent teaching assistant (an AI Tutor) for programming education, enabling on-demand education.” It’s an intriguing and I think ambiguous idea. I tend to be skeptical of AI tutors as a general idea.

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Carly and Adam

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk. A first grade teacher welcomes her students back to the classroom. She is excited to have a busy space, full of learners talking, working, and playing. Her excitement is balanced with concern as she knows that many students are nervous to return to school and some may be coming for the first time in a long time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Comics have long been considered not just to gamify education but to teach writing skills that are challenging for some students. SmartBrief Education tells Dan Ryder’s story, How comics curriculum boosts SEL. Dan Ryder, a learning facilitator at Community Regional Charter School in Skowhegan, Maine, says he uses comics to support students’ social and emotional learning.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Social emotional learning (SEL), as defined by EQ, is "the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and.read more.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. These are challenging times, but what if you're trying to find some normalcy amidst the challenges? Today's guest, Michelle Blanchet, co-author of the Startup Teacher Playbook talks about a method she teaches teachers to help determine the specific issues of concern so that improvements can be made and the teacher can have a sense of forward progress.

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Accelerate Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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Computer Science Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Mike Zamansky had an interesting post called What They Used To Know that got me thinking about the old days. Now Mike is a youngster and didn’t really start in computers until the 1980s. I started in the 1970s with punch cards and batch processing. That meant that there was no instant gratification seeing your program run. With batch, one handed their cards to an operator and some time later, hours or maybe a day, one got their cards back with a listing that showed the results.

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Teach Science for All

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Here’s a fun simulation for a Tuesday. Visit River Runner and then click anywhere on the map to place a single raindrop. The simulation then shows you where the raindrop ends up. Enjoy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With schools closed for in-person learning and many children being educated at home, parents are scrambling for quality alternatives that work in a home environment. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has some ideas you may not have thought of: How to Make Remote Learning Work For Your Children. Many parents are choosing to opt-out of traditional schooling, but the question of how to create a well-rounded curriculum or who to hire for this task is often the barrier that prevents at-home

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Applied Digital Skills is a great resource from Google for Education that offers a wide variety of digitally-focused lessons to integrate in both in-class and distance instruction. Its library.read more.

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Vivify Stem

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Brain Safety Football STEM Challenge What do football and STEM have in common? Teamwork! Hut-Hut-Hike! It’s football season! Challenge your students to create a safer football helmet for their adorable “egg” players. Using the engineering design process , teams of students design, create, and test pint-sized football helmets. Your classroom will have a whole squad when this challenge is complete.

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Accelerate Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

September 15th through October 15th marks National Hispanic Heritage Month, a time of year where we honor the achievements, contributions, and influence of Hispanic Americans to the world. Here at STEMscopes we want to recognize some of the lesser known Hispanic pioneers in various STEM fields. Some you may know; some may be brand new to you.

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Computer Science Teacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I saw an interesting question today on Twitter: Hey coding enthusiasts! In your opinion, what's the best laptop for students to learn how to code on? #edchat #edtechchat #pdchat — Mary Jo Madda (@MJMadda) September 30, 2021 My first response is that there is no definitive answer to that question. I thought about it for a while. One can learn to program by hooking a Raspberry Pi to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and firing up Thonny and learn Python.

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STEM for Kids

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Morrisville, NC USA 9/2/2021. STEM For Kids has been awarded a cooperative purchasing contract in the STEM Curriculum Solutions category at Sourcewell. . Sourcewell is a self-sustaining government organization offering a cooperative purchasing program with more than 400 competitively solicited contracts to gove rnment, education, and nonprofit entities throughout North America.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Digital texts confront students with the potential for continually updated content and dynamically changing combinations of words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded video and audio.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

After we learned about the 10 lessons you can create using Google Docs, in today's post I am sharing with you this collection of Google Forms-based lessons that you can use with your.read more.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

144: Why Are Makerspaces Important in the Elementary Classroom? Today we are talking about WHY classrooms might want to include a makerspace. Come join me. Makerspaces are more than a dedicated space. They are a mindset. One of innovation, creativity, collaboration, community, and critical thinking. Makerspace should exist in every elementary classroom.

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Know Adam's Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Want to understand the Next Generation Science Standards? In three words: three dimensional learning. Figuring out exactly what those words mean and how they make NGSS different from existing standards will get you much closer to understanding exactly what is expected in the next generation of science education.

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Computer Science Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Chris Lehmann, the amazing principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, says “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the same thing, that’s not a project, that is a recipe.” Now recipes have their place for sure. They often make a good start. I see programming as a creative thing (art/craft/skill/science/what ever) and I want to see creativity from my students.

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STEMx

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For many years, STEM educators have been told by private industry leaders in the technical fields about the nationwide need for workers trained to handle STEM-related jobs. That need is felt by branches of the U.S. military, too. The Department of Defense has a keen interest in building the technical workforce of tomorrow, some of whom might enter the military or take civilian defense jobs, all helping to protect our nation.

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