Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Click to enlarge lesson plan A Holiday Calendar Kids love making this calendar. They get to talk about their upcoming vacations and hear what their friends are doing. It’s simple enough for third grade with advanced tools that satisfy a fifth graders growing intellect. A Holiday Newsletter Have students collaborate on a newsletter for a classroom unit of inquiry or a theme (colonies, animals, etc).
ED Surge
DECEMBER 3, 2024
All year long, schools have been grappling with how to respond to student cellphone use, which, according to many educators, had become almost constant among kids in older grades and increasingly disruptive to instruction. What many schools have not tackled, over the same period, is the rise of smartwatches among younger kids. A few years ago, smartwatches — high-tech wearables that can send and receive calls and texts, take photos and videos, and share precise location-tracking data, among othe
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Cool Cat Teacher
DECEMBER 4, 2024
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we’re exploring one of the most exciting and relevant topics in education— teaching kids to code. Featuring insights from leading computer science educators, this episode provides actionable strategies, tools, and ideas to make coding education engaging for all ages.
All About STEM
DECEMBER 3, 2024
This Bronze CREST Award could encourage your learners to be waste-free in school! The idea of this project is to introduce a new school lunch programme. Students work through the CREST booklet completing tests and research to produce a leaflet and/or poster presentation. Their programme should inspire pupils to use recycled or reusable packaging in their lunches.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Here are the most-read posts for the past month: Tips for Supporting Students With Special Needs Using Technology 26 Online LMS Resources 7 Ways to Evaluate Websites National STEM Day Nov. 8th A Day to Remember Veterans Geography Awareness Week: November 11-15, 2024 How to Put Kindness in Your Classes 4 Critical Pieces of Every Lesson and How to Gamify Them video 14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning Here’s a preview of whatR
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Cool Cat Teacher
DECEMBER 4, 2024
All About STEM
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The GCHQ Christmas Challenge is back! Every year schools & colleges across the country take on mind-bending brainteasers set by GCHQ puzzlers. “At GCHQ, we love creating puzzles and breaking codes. That’s why every year we create the GCHQ Christmas Challenge, a series of fiendish puzzles, designed by our very own team of codebreakers.
Stephen Wolfram
DECEMBER 5, 2024
This is a follow-on to Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes [May 3, 2024]. Even More from an Extremely Simple Model A few months ago I introduced an extremely simple “adaptive cellular automaton” model that seems to do remarkably well at capturing the essence of what’s happening in biological evolution.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. For students, digital citizenship isn’t just a skill — it’s essential to navigating everything from staying connected with their friends to learning about the world around them, to preparing for college and career. But with technology advancing so quickly, how can we help young people make healthy choices?
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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.
Computer Science Teacher
DECEMBER 1, 2024
Eugene Wallingford let me in on A December Adventure From the website “The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every day in December.” It’s sort of like an Advent of Code but not as intense or competitive. I love the idea of the Advent of Code but it’s more work than I want to put into something. On the other hand, I like to idea of spending a bit of time on a new project every day.
All About STEM
DECEMBER 4, 2024
PROMYS Europe – Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists PROMYS Europe 2025 opens for applications soon! PROMYS Europe is designed to encourage mathematically ambitious students who are at least 16 to explore the creative world of mathematics.
Teach Hub
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Mornings can set the tone for your entire day as an educator. Whether you’re having a productive start or a chaotic rush, how your morning unfolds can influence your mood, which can influence how you interact with your students. That’s why it’s essential to have a consistent morning routine. Just as you create a routine for your students to ensure mornings go smoothly, you too need to establish a solid, structured routine.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 6, 2024
AI has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives and it is already doing so. According to Microsofts 2024 Work Trend Index , 75 percent of knowledge workers use AI, double the percentage of just six months before. Its clear that the ways we communicate, make decisions and solve problems are changing as we embrace this new technology. Education is no exception.
Defined Learning
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Data suggests a significant decline in U.S. students' math performance exacerbated by the pandemic but rooted in pre-existing issues such as stagnant scores and superficial teaching methods. Learn how to address this issue through systemic changes in math instruction, emphasizing conceptual understanding, discovery-based learning, and project-based learning (PBL) to improve retention and application of mathematical skills in real-world contexts.
Middle Web
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Using the simple question "How am I reacting?" NBCT and author Marilyn Pryle shows how she teaches students to observe, identify, and manage their emotions when they encounter any text so that they become not only stronger critical thinkers, but better citizens and human beings. The post How Am I Reacting to the Text I’m Consuming? first appeared on MiddleWeb.
All About STEM
DECEMBER 2, 2024
All About STEM manages the Unilever R&D Port Sunlight Work Experience Programme. The programme offers Year 12 students a week’s work experience during the second half of the Summer Term. As this is an extremely popular programme, we offer a preparation sheet that learners can use to prepare their answers before they complete their Online Application Form.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. On a Friday during one of those long, exhausting days, two birds flew into my classroom. It was comical and absurd — for sixty minutes, I watched my high schoolers run around the room, trying to catch these birds. I had to run after my students a couple of times when I saw them doing crazy things like standing on desks and chairs and window sills trying to catch them.
The Innovative Educator
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Google Chrome moved its QR code generator. If you want to access it now, here's what you do: Click the three dots on the top right of your screen Scroll down to "Cast, save, and share" Select "Create QR code" The screenshot below shows exactly how to do this.
Basic-Mathematics
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Learn factoring by grouping with interactive lesson, step-by-step guidance, instant feedback, and clear solutions to help you master factoring effortlessly.
Box Light
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Get ready! Connect with Boxlight at the Virginia Society for Technology in Education Annual Conference (VSTE) - Booth 424 - December 8 -10th, 2024 , at the Virginia Beach Convention Center (Virginia Beach , VA ). Explore our innovative solutions in action and see how were enhancing c ampus and classroom communication.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The theme song of a podcast may only play for a few seconds at the beginning and ending of an episode, but the short clip sets the tone for the show. In searching for a theme song that fit, I spent hours clicking around on online music libraries including the Free Music Archive for songs with just the right mix of seriousness and playfulness to encapsulate our weekly interview show about the future of learning.
Northeastern University
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Today is National Giving Day! It’s the season of giving and you can give back to the Center for STEM Education. Funds raised have a direct impact on programs we run: each year, the Center for STEM Education is able offer STEM experiences to over 1,500 K-12 students, teachers, and families through initiatives such as the Young Scholars Program, STEM Field Trips, Building Bridges, Science Fair, and After School Programs.
Basic-Mathematics
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Estimating a sum by rounding to the nearest 10 or to the nearest 100 and choosing the best estimate
EiE Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Mindlabs (Explore Interactive) & Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) team up to enhance student learning with augmented reality and hands-on STEM education.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 4, 2024
At its core, personalized learning is about recognizing that no two students learn exactly the same way. It moves beyond the one-size-fits-all approach by focusing on each student’s strengths, needs and learning pace. By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally.
Middle Web
DECEMBER 1, 2024
While many multilingual students gain social language in two years, abstract, highly structured academic language requires much more time. Tan Huynh advocates teaching MLs at the sentence level because it facilitates understanding of content and fosters academic writing skills. The post Unlock Academic Writing One Sentence at a Time first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ellipsis Education
DECEMBER 6, 2024
A Month in the Life of a Computer Science Advocate: Collaborating with AI to Advance Education As an educator and leader in K-12 computer science, I have always sought tools that enable meaningful innovation while keeping teachers and students at the center of every decision. Over the past month, I have leaned into AI, not as a replacement for expertise but as a collaborator that challenges, amplifies, and refines my ideas.
Carly and Adam
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Bring some holiday cheer into your STEM classroom with a festive and engaging activity: the Elf on the Shelf STEM Challenge ! This challenge encourages creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving as students work to construct a tower sturdy enough to hold a mischievous elf. Want more Holiday STEM Challenge Ideas? Check out the replay of our December STEM Planning Party!
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