Sat.Nov 09, 2024 - Fri.Nov 15, 2024

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4 Critical Pieces of Every Lesson and How to Gamify Them video

Ask a Tech Teacher

Gamification of Education This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: –summarize with NoteGPT Summary Jacqui Murray discusses the integration of technology in K-8 education, focusing on gamification to enhance learning. Highlights Gamification enhances learning by incorporating game elements into education.

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5 Essential Questions Educators Have About AI

ED Surge

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Teachers are exploring how AI can be used to redefine learning experiences, strengthen student-teacher relationships and support students as ethical AI users and creators.

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Practical Tips on How to Teach Reading from Jennifer Serravallo

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Sometimes, teachers can struggle to “fit it all in” when it comes to reading. With all of the news on reading, how do we teach reading? What a relief it is to hear reading instructional leaders like Jennifer Serravallo talk about the artistry of teaching, how to overcome the challenges of teaching reading, and teacher autonomy and responsiveness.

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Schools: Enter The All About STEM Competition Challenge Day Draw!

All About STEM

Fancy a STEM Day for your class? Enter our prize draw to win a fully-funded Competition Day facilitated by All About STEM!

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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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How to Put Kindness in Your Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

World Kindness Day, celebrated on November 13th each year, promotes kindness across the globe and emphasizes compassion toward others. This day encourages us to look beyond boundaries, religions, and cultures, focusing instead on the simple act of being kind. Founded in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, it is observed in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Inspiring Understanding Using Personal Stories

Middle Web

Exploring human experiences through personal stories promotes discussions that focus on facts and individual realities rather than generalizations and stereotypes and helps students develop empathy, compassion and understanding, writes Kasey Short. Reading suggestions included! The post Inspiring Understanding Using Personal Stories first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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National Apprenticeship Week 2025

All About STEM

Learners can celebrate National Apprenticeship Week and the positive impact of apprentices with the latest resource bundle from Amazing Apprenticeships! The annual week-long celebration aims to showcase and celebrate apprentices, employers and training providers. It’s the perfect time for students to discover the amazing benefits and opportunities apprenticeships can offer.

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Geography Awareness Week: November 11-15, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher

Promoted by National Geographic, here’s what you should know about Geography Awareness Week: Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. National Geographic created Geography Awareness Week to raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American education and excite people about geography as both a discipline and as a part of everyday life.

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What If Finding Child Care Online Were as Easy as Making a Dinner Reservation?

ED Surge

In 2024, if you want to make a dinner reservation, you’re very likely to open an app on your phone, input a few details and then filter your results to see which restaurants have availability for your party size, date and time. If you want to find child care, on the other hand, good luck. In most states, you can visit a website and see a map of providers in your area, along with some basic information about them — ages served, operating hours, quality rating — but details about their enrollment

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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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Empowering Students to Own Their Learning

Middle Web

Aaron Hansen provides a vision and guidance for a student centered approach to learning, backed by practical strategies and real-world examples. While the journey to implement these changes may be challenging, the potential rewards are immense, writes educator Melinda Stewart. The post Empowering Students to Own Their Learning first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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CREST Awards: Run a Discovery Day in School!

All About STEM

CREST Discovery Awards offer an introduction to real project work and give students the freedom to run their own investigations. They can be completed in one day, with students (10-14) working together in self-managed groups. The Challenge Students work in groups to solve a STEM challenge, or challenges, with minimal adult intervention. Then students present their work.

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14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them (click for updated links) : Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app) Canadian Thanksgiving Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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Is There a Problem With ‘Mathbots’?

ED Surge

When GPT-3 burst on the education scene, it caused a flood of reactions, ranging from gleeful to apocalyptic. But more than that, it unlocked money. In 2023, generative AI claimed businesses in the U.S. and Canada claimed almost 45 percent of all private equity-backed investments, by one estimate, with an eye-popping value of $2.18 billion when much of the rest of the deals in that world were declining.

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Designing Questions That Support Scaffolding

Middle Web

Effective questions build in opportunities to scaffold student learning. Teaching coach Barbara R. Blackburn suggests creating questions that encourage multiple answers, include hints and context, allow students to help each other, and provide a clear indicator of success. The post Designing Questions That Support Scaffolding first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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12 of the Coolest Winter Science Experiments & STEM Activities

STEM Education Guide

The weather may be getting chilly, but that means plenty of time for fun winter science experiments! This is the time for holiday crafts, exploring snowflakes, and so much more! We’ve rounded up our favorite science and STEM activities for the winter. 1. Salt Crystal Snowflakes by Living Well Mom Learn about crystallization with this easy experiment.

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Enter The All About STEM Competition!

All About STEM

IT’S TIME! We have been blown away by the quality of entries over the last four years and can’t wait to see all the amazing posters from our schools. So without further ado, The All About STEM Competition is now open! ⚡️There is no theme this year, all ideas are welcome so the possibilities are endless!

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Students Need Learning Opportunities Beyond Core Subjects. Here's Why.

ED Surge

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state. This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem.

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Must Haves for a Successful STEM Night

Career in STEM

October is a popular month for community events, open houses, and activity nights. A growing trend is STEM Nights, where students and families gather to experience the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thinking of running your own STEM Night? Here are the top must-haves for a successful STEM-themed special event: A Theme Other than the date and location, setting a theme is one of the most important things you must do for a successful STEM Night event.

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The Best STEM Gifts for this Holiday Season

STEM Education Works

Hello everyone! The holiday season is upon us, and what better gift to give friends and family this year than the gift of STEM? We are highlighting the best affordable STEM toys, gadgets, and devices with our Holiday Gift Guide ! I wanted to cover a few of my favorite products that we’re highlighting this year: Brown Dog Gadgets Kits: Our Brown Dog Gadgets products are the perfect combination of creative crafting and innovative learning … and they make perfect stocking stuffers.

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STEM For Kids and UNESCO-Aligned Partners Launch Free Global STEM Contest

STEM for Kids

Raleigh, North Carolina USA 11/13/2024 STEM For Kids is proud to announce the Global STEM Contest, a free international competition for children ages 7-14. This exciting, hands-on contest invites young learners to collaborate on projects in biomedical engineering, data science, and AI, with the aim of solving real-world problems through STEM. Participants will gain exposure to fast-growing fields and develop vital skills for future careers.

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Revolutionizing How Educators Find Tech Solutions

ED Surge

With a new school year now in full swing, educators are in a bind. They want to implement innovative edtech tools in the classroom but don’t necessarily have the time to research and evaluate solutions before procurement and classroom implementation. Enter the concept of curated online marketplaces — a potential game-changer in the edtech landscape.

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Snowflake Science Activity: How to Collect & Observe Snowflakes Under a Microscope

STEM Education Guide

If you live in an area where snow is a regular occurrence, you can do more than look at snowflake pictures. Learn about snowflakes hands-on by catching, collecting, and observing snowflakes under a microscope. You’ve likely seen the beauty of snowflakes with just your naked eye. When a snowflake falls on your sleeve or into your hair, you can see the intricate, unique pattern of the ice crystal.

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LCR Mayor Celebrates Games Industry Programme for Students

All About STEM

On the 8th of October, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram joined games employers, community organisations and education and careers providers to celebrate a successful year of GameChangers.

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Williams College x talkSTEM: Environmental Field Methods – Summer Science Program 2024

Talk STEM

When picturing a college science class, many people may recall long lab sessions, rigorous training, and extensive lab reports. This past summer, however, this stereotype was broken. As part of the Summer Science Program at Williams College, an environmental field methods class was taught entirely with social media as the medium, with equal emphasis on research communication as the science itself.

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Unveiling CRISPR: The Revolutionary Gene-Editing Tool

STEMe

Sydney, Australia CRISPR in action In the realm of science, few discoveries have captured the imagination and potential for transformation quite like CRISPR or ' Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats' Imagine a tool so precise that it allows scientists to edit DNA with unprecedented accuracy, offering hope for curing genetic diseases, enhancing crop yields, and even potentially altering the course of evolution itself.

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Best STEM Summer Camps In Des Moines (2024)

The Maker Mom

Des Moines is a major city in Iowa known for its technology and business sector. Tech giants like Microsoft and Facebook have large data centers in this lively city, and there are many opportunities for children to study STEM topics. Summer camps throughout Des Moines offer interactive programs to capture your child’s attention. These STEM programs introduce students to technology concepts from an early age and show them how fun science and tech can be.

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CREST Awards: Run a Discovery Day in School!

All About STEM

CREST Discovery Awards offer an introduction to real project work and give students the freedom to run their own investigations. They can be completed in one day, with students (10-14) working together in self-managed groups. The Challenge Students work in groups to solve a STEM challenge, or challenges, with minimal adult intervention. Then students present their work.

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Tune Into STEAM: Engage Students with Music and Sound

Box Light

Ever wondered how music can transform your STEM lessons? Don’t miss the free 20-minute session titled “Tune Into STEAM: Engage Students with Music and Sound” led by Evan Brus, EOS Education Training and Development Specialist. Learn creative methods to teach key concepts to K-8 students through interactive activities that spark interest!

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How to Make Your Own Bouncy Balls at Home

STEM Education Guide

These homemade bouncy balls are so easy to make, and you only need a few supplies. I’ll admit, they don’t bounce like the super bouncy balls that you buy at the store. But they’re still really fun to play with and make! (DIY always makes it better, right?!) We were recently making this easy slime recipe at home. Many of the ingredients you use for slime are the same as this bouncy ball.

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Holiday Giveaway this Thanksgiving! Open to all talkSTEM Learning Network Members

Talk STEM

talk STEM is thrilled to announce the launch of our new talkSTEM Educator Dashboard and Student App!! Designed to inspire curiosity, fuel learning, and make science, technology, engineering, and math accessible and engaging for everyone. Our talkSTEM Educator Dashboard and Student App combines interactive STEM Walks , hands-on and real-world problem-solving to bring STEM concepts to life.

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Nov 15, Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 70)

Online Math for All

Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 70)

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The 4C’s in STEM: Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration

Starfish Education

Using the 4C's in STEM targets skills that employers seek and helps students build 21st century skills to become well-qualified job candidates.