Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Parents When students use the internet to research a topic, likely they get hundreds—or thousands—of possible resources. Beyond selecting based on key words and extensions (such as selecting websites that end in .edu and.gov), how can they make choices that will inform their learning rather than misguide i

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction? If you’re a teen, you could be exposed to conspiracy theories and a host of other pieces of misinformation as frequently as every day while scrolling through your social media feeds.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we dive into essential qualities of effective school leadership. From building relationships to tackling teacher burnout, our guest principals and educational experts share their strategies for creating positive, high-impact school environments. Hear from award-winning principals like Tracie Anderson Swilley and Carlos Ramirez, alongside thought leaders George Couros, Eric Sheninger, and top episodes

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Computer Science Teacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Today I was able to attend the 2024 CSTA New England conference. There were 14 exhibits at the conference and I spent some time with several of them. One of the images below shows the list of conference sponsors. It was great to see so much support for CS education. GradeThan was one of the firsts booths I visited. They have an online development environment that incorporates Visual Studio Code.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

National STEM Day is November 8, 2024, the unofficial holiday that celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education throughout the United States. Many add ‘art’ to the celebration for the acronym, STEAM. Here are some great ideas that remind your students of the excitement that is these core subjects: Ten Ways to Celebrate National STEM Day with NASA National STEM Day focuses on helping students advance in STEM fields, a priority of NASA as we continue to

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Tracie Anderson Swilley the Principal of Fairfield High School in South Carolina was named the 2025 Principal of the Year for the United States by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Today we're going to talk to her about the culture transformation at her school that improved their graduation rate and built a school pride that is promoting excellence in everything they do.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We are so proud of our STEMsational schools! This year, The All About STEM Competition challenged students across the North West to use their STEM skills to develop a problem-solving idea around the theme of food. The projects came rolling in and we were wowed by the quality of entries and the technical knowledge within them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Here are 26 resources to help you select the right LMS for your school ( click for updates to list ): Alma Brightspace Buncee –free trail; multimedia lessons on a shared digital canvas Canvas Cikumas Cloudschool –free LMS Echo EdHitch Google Classroom –only for GAFE schools Hapara Teacher Dashboard Instructure iSpring — downloadable LMS Joomla JupiterEd Moodle –Open Source, free (but requires customizing) Otus Schoology Seesaw –student-driven digital portfolios Show

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the United States, young children attend programs that most refer to as “daycares” or “child cares,” staffed by people that many think of as “workers.” That has to change, argues author Dan Wuori in his new book, “ The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It). ” We ought to eliminate those terms from our lexicon and, instead, think of those programs as schools and the adults employed there as teachers, Wuori writes.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Welcome to Cool Cat Teacher Talk Episode 6, where we dive into the essential role of teachers, parents, and communities in helping children heal from trauma. This episode focuses on supporting children impacted by recent natural disasters and life’s storms, with insights from leading educators, child psychologists, and leaders who know firsthand the challenges and power of resilience.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Visit All About STEM on Pinterest for our recommended (and favourite) Christmas activities! Our Pinterest boards are packed with fun projects with categories ranging from subject to season. All of our boards are regularly updated and you can view them all here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As you prepare for the holiday break and then a new year, it’s a great time to think about resources available in your classes for students with special needs. Ask a Tech Teacher has a long list of online websites and apps for a variety of special needs , but if you’re looking for a good overview of general tips, check these out: Tips for Supporting Students With Special Needs Using Technology You might not realize that over 60% of students with special needs benefit remarkably from

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I've had several people lately say “just breathe” and others say “take care of yourself.” But how? How do we take care of ourselves when things are so busy? How do we make the time? I typically listen to teachers but often the well-meaning advice of others falls short.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Young Coders is a competition for primary and secondary schools (Years 4-8) that aims to help adults become more confident in teaching coding skills. Any teacher, tutor or parent can run the competition, whether they are familiar with coding or completely new to it. All the planning is done for you, so you can learn alongside your pupils or children.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: ASVAB or a Service Academy? You Decide. Warm-ups–Watch the video Compare-contrast Digital Tools 70+ Online Resources to Gamified Education Digital Citizenship Week: What to Teach When–a video Digital Citizenship Resources–Lots of Them 12 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship–by Grade Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations–the video National Bullying Prevention Month 13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom Here’s a prev

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With all the talk of the downsides of smartphones for teenagers, parents have looked to smartwatches as a way to stay in contact with their young children while avoiding the full internet and social media access of a phone. At least that was the narrative a couple of years ago. But more recently, more companies have been marketing smartwatches to kids as young as 4 and 5 years old.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this heartfelt episode of Cool Cat Teacher Talk, we reflect on the remarkable careers of Mrs. Grace Adkins, who retired at age 94 after 77 years in education, and Mrs. Sharon Howard, who taught kindergarten for 44 years. These veteran educators share invaluable lessons on resilience, compassion, and the love of learning that every teacher can carry into their own classroom.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In the Spring Term 2025, STEM Learning is running a free online student mentoring programme, funded by GSK. All About Futures/ All About STEM is managing school engagement in the Cheshire & Warrington, Merseyside, Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire regions. “We’re requesting that schools express their interest now if they might wish to be involved.

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Middle Web

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Beginning with reflective exercises to help readers identify their leadership tendencies, Brad and Jeremy Johnson offer a nuanced exploration of the tension between assertiveness and compassion in school leadership and then provide actionable strategies to achieve balance. The post Effective Principals Find Their Leadership Edge first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Evaluating and validating tech tools takes time and energy — resources that are always in short supply. An overwhelming variety of tools are available, each claiming to improve student outcomes in different ways, making it difficult to discern which will have the most meaningful impact. Added layers of complexity about compatibility, security and cost can lead to decision fatigue.

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STEM Everyday Podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Kath Geramita is the co-Founder and COO of CreositySpace. She has also been an engineer, chemist, and entrepreneur with a passion for making science and technology useful and accessible to everyone. Kath got her start in a number of technology start-ups developing products ranging from electronic ink and cement made from CO2, to materials improving the storage capacity of batteries and fuel cells.

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This series, Creating Careers Pathways: Parent & Carer Information Sessions, will explore Apprenticeship and Technical Education (ATE) routes in the Liverpool City Region, designed to give you the information you need to effectively inform and prepare your young person for their best next step.

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Middle Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Chunking alone won’t help multilingual learners with the deluge of new content they experience. Tan Huynh shares the Input-Output Loop, a strategy to make chunking more effective by assuring immediate processing time and segmenting content into units students can internalize. The post The Input-Output Loop: It’s Chunking 2.0 for MLs first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Post by Lauren Kelly November 2, 2024 If you're a Texas educator, you’ve likely heard about the new science standards that now include engineering practices. But you might be wondering: What exactly are they, and how can you integrate them into your teaching? In this post, we’ll explore what Scientific and Engineering Practices (SEPs) are, why they’ve been added, and how you can seamlessly incorporate them into your classroom.

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Career in STEM

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Michigan Tech engineering professor Joshua Pearce has an approach that can help people in the real world save money on STEM education, state-of-the-art scientific equipment and many consumer products we all use every day. Pearce is well known in the research community for savings scientists millions of dollars using open source tricks. Now he is explaining his approach and sharing his tricks for the general public in his new book Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects from McGr

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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Visit All About STEM on Pinterest for our recommended (and favourite) Christmas activities! Our Pinterest boards are packed with fun projects with categories ranging from subject to season. All of our boards are regularly updated and you can view them all here.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Creating a self-organized classroom as a teacher involves more than just tidying desks or sorting paperwork. It’s about fostering a space where students take ownership of their learning. It’s building an environment that operates efficiently and where students are empowered and driven to learn. In this space, students can develop critical life skills and are encouraged to engage in higher-level thinking.

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Defined Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Maintaining student engagement throughout the school year can be a challenge. Learn how integrating hands-on learning activities such as STEM, project-based learning (PBL), outdoor activities, gamification, and more helps maintain student engagement and develop essential skills like creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration.

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