Accelerate Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Even for students with an intuitive sense of math, its specialized vocabulary often gets in the way, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Find out how to use math vocabulary as a tool to broaden students' understanding of math and improve mathematical discourse.
Amy Brown Science
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Science surrounds us every single day. From shopping at the grocery store for probiotic yogurts and organically grown produce to news stories on earthquakes, climate change, vaccines, and toxic chemical clouds produced from a train derailment. As a result, it is more important than ever that we teach our science students how to read "science informational text.
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All About STEM
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
On the 19th of December 2022, the National Schools’ Observatory and Astrophysicists from Liverpool John Moores University broadcast their third festive space-themed event for children aged 7 – 11. The Merseyside and Cheshire STEM Ambassador Hub supported school recruitment for this session and over 13,000 pupils joined STEM Ambassadors who are part of the One Million Interactions STEM Ambassador.
Accelerate Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Throughout history, many Black scientists have made tremendous contributions to the advancement of STEM and positively impacted the world. Let’s take a closer look at the contributions of Black scientists to STEM professions, including the vital work of a few standout scientists and engineers.
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.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Danielle Caldwell has been operating her home-based child care program, The Children’s Room, for 27 years. But lately, she’s been considering other career options. The North Carolina child care provider has long known that her work would not lead to riches, but years ago, that was less of a concern. “When I got into this, it was about making it fun.
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Computer Science Teacher
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
I was reading a tweet from a person saying they lost points a program written with pen and paper because the teacher thought the code would not run. When the student asked the teacher to write the code on the computer it ran. The Twitter discussion was on the wrongness of code assignments on paper but I am not sure that paper coding assignments are necessarily wrong.
Stephen Wolfram
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT—and then to explore why it is that it can do so well in producing what we might consider
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, share your stories, celebrate women and girls who are leading innovation and call for actions to remove all barriers that hold them back. This year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science will address the theme “Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance.
Accelerate Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
ChatGPT, a language model that uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like responses, has garnered significant attention for its potential applications in education. This AI-powered technology has been hailed as a game-changer for the education industry. Its ability to support personalized learning experiences, facilitate research and knowledge acquisition, and automate testing and assessment.
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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.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
I have to reblog this wonderful post by my efriend, Lisa. How many of these fit you? Can you add to this list? You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When… You can’t remember the last time you printed a classroom document. Plurking, tweeting, and playing with your wiki in public are acceptable behaviors. Your Notebook isn’t spiral bound – it plugs into the wall.
Computer Science Teacher
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Eugene Wallingford had a great post on WHAT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SUCCEED AS A CS STUDENT? It’s got a lot of good advice and I recommend it to students in high school or university. For now I want to focus on one or two pieces of his advice. Specifically, “Get to know your programming environment” For the most part, in class, teachers have time to do an introduction to the development environment but not much more.
Futurum
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Can gardening help children grow? Published: Founded by Professor Sallie Marston and led by former school counsellor Moses Thompson , the University of Arizona ’s School Garden Workshop creates and maintains gardens for schools in Tucson. Not only do gardens provide sites for practical learning, but Sallie and Moses believe they help children improve their social competencies and emotional well-being.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Learning about space? Looking for things to do? Use the National Schools’ Observatory! More than 80 free resources, all made by space professionals. Whether you’re a teacher, a student, or a home educator you’ll find something on their new Things To Do webpage. View the resources! About the National Schools Observatory: “We use the wonders of space to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Accelerate Learning
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Math class can be a challenge for many students, particularly those who struggle with the subject. However, by making math class more interactive, teachers can help students better understand and retain the material while increasing their engagement and enthusiasm. This is especially important as more and more students are playing catch-up due to pandemic math learning loss.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Students want teachers who are emotionally present, empathetic to their experiences and who invest in their well-being and success. Teachers crave those same things — empathy, support and investment — from families, school and district leaders and the public. In my experience, there's an empathy gap for teachers. What I didn’t recognize or acknowledge is that this has created an empathy gap for students as well.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
AI-generated writing, currently centered around ChatGPT, already is a disruptive force in education. Check out these articles: How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten it –from Scientific American ChatGPT threatens education at all levels – here’s how it can be stopped –from Tech Radar ChatGPT: The Next Firestorm in Education –from AACSB ChatGPT has this to say about itself being a threat to student writing skills: Detecting AI writing can be a difficult task
Computer Science Teacher
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
One of the things that make me sure that programming will be around for awhile even with better and better artificial intelligences is that people are bad at giving instructions. Well, that may be unfair. They are reasonably good at giving instruction to other people but that is not the same as being good at giving instruction to the literal minded.
Futurum
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur? Published: Climate change is making many parts of the world hotter and drier. As a result, wildfires are becoming increasingly prevalent and pose a serious threat to human life, local communities and natural ecosystems. Researchers from the FLARE Wildfire Research Group at The University of Melbourne in Australia are developing models that can help predict where wildfires are most likely to occur and how fi
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Calling all 14+ students! “Build your skills, knowledge and experience in health and care with support from a team of experts, taking you a step ahead!” Take a look at the fantastic selection of sessions below from the Liverpool City Region Careers Hub and scan any QR code or click an image to find out more. Find out more about Creating Careers All About STEM (All About Futures) partner with.
Accelerate Learning
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
If you’re a curriculum leader or math teacher, you are probably facing the challenge of how to support multilingual learners in math class. You are not alone. In fact, 10.4 percent of public school students in the United States were English learners (ELs) in the fall of 2019. These students are not only tackling math skills and learning to think through math problems like your other students but also doing it in a new language.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Measuring the effects of extreme weather requires extreme numbers. Climate change racked up an eye-popping $165 billion damages tab in the U.S. last year, as tallied by a recent federal report. And back in September, around 82 percent of Florida school districts closed for at least one day — keeping roughly 2.5 million students out of school. With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined b
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
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: Find a file Category: Problem-solving Q: I saved my document, but I can’t find it.
Middle Web
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
How might lessons connect local history and historical fiction? Katie Durkin and her 7th grade team are partnering with the Wilton CT historical society to engage students in a project that raises awareness about how fiction writers use history to tell authentic stories. The post Connecting Local History with Historical Fiction first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Vivify Stem
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Teaching STEM Through A Story Post by Claire Meschkat & Terese Wills February 16, 2022 Do you begin your lessons with a story? Stories are a powerful tool that will increase engagement in STEM activities. Read below for strategies, including a video on developing stories that provide motivation and tie in real-world STEM events and career connections.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Practical information and guidance for schools, special schools and colleges. Helping schools and colleges prepare and inspire young people for the fast-changing world of work is at the heart of what The Careers & Enterprise Company do, and across the country, there have been countless inspiring examples of schools and colleges doing just that for young people with Special Educational Needs.
Accelerate Learning
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Math strategies, regardless of grade, hover around the key principles of conceptual understanding and procedural literacy. Students need to know why 2+2=4 and how you get that answer from those two variables. Of course, this principle gets more complex as students age, and math instruction in elementary school looks different than in high school. Throughout, though, students are asked to build upon their preexisting skills to really learn how to do math, so if there’s no effective math class whe
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The emergence of ChatGPT provoked widespread concern that the AI chatbot is the ultimate tool for students cheating on homework, since it can answer just about any question in paragraph form. As companies race to come out with tools they claim can detect when prose was written by a bot, some are wondering whether a previous generation of homework-help tools might soon be rendered obsolete.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
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: How to find a lots shortcut Category: Problem-solving Q: I can’t find the shortcut for a program I want to open.
User Generated Education
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
During Spring, 2022, a student in my gifted education program suggested that they build a paper city. I loved the idea, suggested that they make a sustainable city, and gave them some additional resources to do so. It ended up being amazing (for more about this see Building a Sustainable City and Class Example of a Sustainable City ). Along with teaching these gifted elementary students (who I teach for multiple years), I teach graduate courses for Walden University.
STEM Next
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
This month on the blog, we are thrilled to welcome one of the STEM Next Opportunity Fellows as a guest author. Dr. Holly Miller serves as the Afterschool and Summer Learning Fellow at the Institute of Education Sciences at the US Department of Education. Dr. Miller brings a wealth of expertise to her position at the Department including serving as a former middle school STEM teacher and an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in Senator Rosen’s office.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
BBC Teach is taking over the Science Museum in London with an out-of-this-world forces Live Lesson for British Science Week! The Live Lesson astronaut is stuck in space and the challenge is on for pupils to use their knowledge of gravity, friction and air resistance, to design a landing module. Who will successfully bring him back to Earth? This 30-minute curriculum-linked session includes Dr.
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