Sat.Dec 11, 2021 - Fri.Dec 17, 2021

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11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence (copy)

Ask a Tech Teacher

This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live ): For regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher, these are yearly reminders. For new readers, these are like body armor in the tech battle.

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Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

ED Surge

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. On Wednesday, Kahoot expanded its reach even further, launching a product designed specifically for children 2 through 7. And no, it’s not more quizzes. Instead, the Norway-based company—which counts Disney as an investor —revealed a new suite of digital games, called Kahoot!

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What Is Wakelet and How to Use It in Your Teaching?

Educators Technology

Wakelet is a digital curation tool that allows you to save, organize, and share digital resources. Wakelet's collaborative features makes it a tool with huge educational potential for teachers and.read more.

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Rebound: How Do Schools Bounce Back after the Pandemic?

Cool Cat Teacher

Acceleration Research with Dr. Douglas Fisher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Acceleration research can teach us how to accelerate learning. Dr. Douglas Fisher, co-author of the best-selling book Rebound, Grades K-12: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools.

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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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Holiday Activities To Keep the Learning Going

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. I’ve been there often. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school.

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What Is Quizizz and How to Use It with Your Students? Full Review

Educators Technology

Quizizz is a game-based learning tool that you can use to engage students in deep and meaningful learning experiences. It allows you to create both teacher-paced and student-paced quizzes and.read more.

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Defined Learning is a fantastic way to bring project-based learning to every grade level and subject area. Some teachers (and students) are great at coming up with meaningful project ideas that align with standards and learning objectives. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject.

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The Return to Rigorous Mathematics

Ask a Tech Teacher

One of my favorite PD sites, EdWeb , recently offered a free webinar (with CE Certificate) on Returning to Rigorous Mathematics. Here’s a preview: As students return to a hopefully more typical school year, learning is likely to be anything but typical. Student and teacher experiences over the past 18 months have varied greatly and classrooms are filled with students representing a wider range of learning needs than ever before.

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When a College Chatbot Breaks Up With You

ED Surge

Getting through the college application process requires perseverance. During a pandemic, tackling that mound of paperwork takes extra fortitude. So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming.

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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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What Is Epic? Learn How to Use Epic Books to Improve Kids Reading Skills

Educators Technology

Epic is a reading platform for students 12 and under. It offers a growing library of books, audiobooks, and learning videos to help kids become stronger readers. As a teacher, you can create your.read more.

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Relief Funding: Get Ready for That Call

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Last month, we talked about the status of all the COVID-19 funding and how it has progressed. The situation for many of the states in their effort to obligate funding under all the ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) and GEER (Governor’s Emergency Education Relief) I, II, and III are ongoing. To see the progress of funding allotments and progress by state, district, and for Higher Education, click here: U.S.

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14 Holiday Websites and 9+ Projects

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites to fill in free minutes? Here are Holiday websites that will keep students busy while teaching them: 12 Days of Christmas. Christmas Celebrations Across the World (video). Christmas puzzles and games. Christmas—history—fun video. Christmas Traditions Around the World (video). Gift Hunt –updated version of 12 Days of Christmas–just as much fun.

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Educators: Next Year Let’s Give Ourselves a Little More Space

ED Surge

Space. It’s the final frontier, but it also defines the shifts in my life as a result of the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, I spent my days in a flurry of activity, scrambling to get things done, rarely, if ever, taking time to do things I enjoyed. I was constantly drumming up opportunities to do more, to be more, to offer greater benefit. The work I do matters to people—it impacts kids, it supports teachers.

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Dec 11, Properties of Addition

Online Math for All

Properties of Addition

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An Award-Winning University Implements Clevertouch Interactive Displays

Box Light

Cardiff Metropolitan University (Cardiff, Wales, U.K.) is “committed to ensuring that every student fulfills their potential to make outstanding graduate-level contributions to their own and future generations.” To support modern learning and teaching, the university decided to equip their teaching spaces with interactive technology to ensure instructors and students had what they needed to stay actively engaged.

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Math Scores Drop Again

Ask a Tech Teacher

Engaging children in math learning is a problem that continues relentlessly, year after year. We don’t seem to know how to fix the dropping math scores (and reading but that’s for another article). We can’t even blame it on COVID! If you’d like to understand this trend more, check out Education Week ‘s article: Young Adolescents’ Scores Trended to Historic Lows on National Tests.

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How Can Colleges Break Out of the Funk of Low Morale?

ED Surge

Low morale of professors and college leaders is turning out to be one of the biggest issues in higher ed this year. Just look at the “most read” list here at EdSurge over the past few months, and you’ll notice that the top headlines involve demoralization and burnout. And social-media chatter about these articles—and similar stories in other publications—shows an increasing sense of being fed up by working conditions on the nation’s campuses nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Biggest Takeaways For The Post-Pandemic Future of Education

Robot Lab

By Lisa O’Masta, President, Learning A-Z. Lessons learned over the course of the pandemic have highlighted ways that schools and districts can best support teachers and students.

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The Top 10 PBL & STEM Education News Articles of 2021

Defined Learning

2021 has been another challenging year for educators, but through those challenges, inspiration, and dedication prevailed. Below are the top ten most inspiring and educational articles that were written on Project-Based Learning (PBL) and STEM education this year. Topics range from PBL best practices to social-emotional learning, and equity in STEM education.

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Have Santa Call Your Kids!

Ask a Tech Teacher

DialMyCalls (an AATT sponsor) has a special Christmas offer for kids: Free Santa Calls To Your Family This Christmas. This Christmas we have a great gift for everyone! Whether you’re an existing DialMyCalls user or not, you can take advantage of our completely free phone call from Santa. Imagine the look on your child’s face when they receive a personalized phone call from Santa with his or her name on it!

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Students Are Suffering From Low Academic Self-Esteem. Democratizing the Classroom Can Save Them.

ED Surge

I will never forget sitting down with Elijah when school began last year. As a 5th-grader, he didn’t understand the concept of multiplication. I started at the beginning, teaching him that any number multiplied by zero is zero. Then, I taught him that any number multiplied by one is that number, one group of five or five groups of one is five, and so on.

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Dec 11, Properties of Multiplication

Online Math for All

Properties of Multiplication

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

ImageStitch. RegionFit. TimeSystemConvert. TrainImageContentDetector. EdgeChromaticNumber. ChemicalFormula. BioSequencePlot. GeoGraphValuePlot. TrainTextContentDetector. ConcaveHullMesh. SpatialEstimate. SnippetsVideo. ChemicalReaction. DominatorTreeGraph. $ContextAliases. FindRegionTransform. WebItem. FindEdgeColoring. CenteredInterval. OverlayVideo.

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What a Year it’s Been! Three Important Highlights from 2021 You Will Want to Know About

Talk STEM

As we enter the holiday season, we are sure that we are all extremely busy. At talkSTEM, we have been extremely busy for the past few months, and wanted to take the time to thank our subscribers and also give you a quick update on some important highlights here at talkSTEM! Despite the challenging nature of 2021 that we all have faced, we are grateful for our partnerships that have allowed us to grow impact and continue to work on our mission of empowering children from all income levels, ethnic

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Chronicle Cloud

Technology Tidbits

Top 5 Features that make Chronicle Cloud the best notes taking app for teachers: What should a teacher consider when choosing the best mobile application for managing their classroom efficiently? A tool that assists teachers with taking notes, grading, assessm ents, maintaining a record of every student, organizing classes, and connecting with parents to efficiently manage their classroom.

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Dec 11, Constant Speed

Online Math for All

Constant Speed - Concept - Formulas - Examples with step by step explanation

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Staffing Your STEM Club

Thimble

Can’t Find Someone Willing to Champion Your STEM Club? A STEM Club is only sustainable with a reliable captain at the helm. Thanks Captain Obvious. … The post Staffing Your STEM Club appeared first on Thimble Online STEM Classes.

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Inspiring Distracted Students by Making Lessons More Epic, Practical and Relevant

Defined Learning

In this five-part series, I'll be sharing best practices and advice from educators that I interview in my new weekly fifteen-minute online Bam! Radio Podcast; Practical PBL Strategies.

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EDpuzzle Originals

Technology Tidbits

EDpuzzle the leading digital video platform for education just got better w/ the introduction of "EDpuzzle Originals". EDpuzzle Originals are professional made curated videos by educators that cover a wide range of subjects such as: Social Studies, science, Math, and more. EDpuzzle is the innovative platform that lets educators seamlessly flip a lesson or classroom and make any video their own.

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Dec 17, Doubles Word Problems

Online Math for All

Doubles Word Problems

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Holiday STEM Learning and Fun!

EiE Blog

Here at EiE ® , we are honored to be a part of such an amazing community of educators and experts who have inspired students —and us all year long. As a thank you for your creativity, perseverance, and commitment during this challenging year, we’ve created this collection of fun, holiday-themed activities and videos to help you keep STEM learning in your hearts and classrooms this holiday season.

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List of Names of Large Numbers

Basic-Mathematics

What are the names of large numbers? Here is a comprehensive giving you names of numbers that are really very big!!!

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