Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 21, 2022
Here are some Winter activities to share the joy of winter: 5 Videos to teach about winter. Animal Winter Games. Winter Facts and Worksheets. The Winter Solstice, from PBS–a video for youngers. Winter Vocabulary –a video. What is a Solstice, from National Geographic–a video. What is the Winter Season –a video. Winter Coloring Pages, Printables, and more.
Educators Technology
JANUARY 16, 2022
Edpuzzle is an educational platform that enables teachers to create and share annotated video lessons with their students. Teachers can use YouTube videos or upload their own, add questions, notes,read more.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 20, 2022
When I first began attending school, my teachers often seated me in the back of the classroom. My parents immigrated from Mexico and were farm workers who lived in Florida and migrated around the country based on the season. That meant I didn’t just attend school in Florida, but also in the states that we traveled to, such as Indiana and Michigan. At the time, I could not speak English, so it was easy for me to be overlooked by my peers and teachers.
Computer Science Teacher
JANUARY 17, 2022
My grandson in kindergarten has a class in reading. It makes sense as he is just learning how to read. Over time, school spends less time teaching how to read and a lot more time using using reading to support learning. For many years, I have been saying that computer science and its tools should be the same. Early on I thought of things like using spreadsheets to look at data.
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
JANUARY 17, 2022
Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Christian Miraglia, Educational Consultant for T4Edtech, reminds us that how we used it at first is probably not how we use it now: I Need an Idea, and I Need it Now!
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ED Surge
JANUARY 19, 2022
Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. He usually begins the academic year with lessons on written profiles, but in the fall of 2020, he felt that wouldn’t meet the moment. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief.
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 20, 2022
If you follow the fear-mongering mainstream media, you’d think today's youth is doomed as a result of the “learning loss” caused by the emergency remote learning students were involved in during the pandemic. Innovative educators (and their students) understand this is untrue. There is not one moment in time when any particular subject or topic needs to be learned.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 18, 2022
It used to surprise me that it became the school’s job to teach empathy. Shouldn’t parents do that? The truth is it doesn’t always happen in homes. Since children spend much of their daylight hours in school, it is a logical place to reinforce empathy as a life skill. Edsurge has an interesting article, How to build empathy among students , that shares one teacher’s experiences: Lessons in empathy often are taught with a focus on the individual, rather than the collectiv
Middle Web
JANUARY 16, 2022
Active listening is a key skill for school leaders, especially when faced with the need to mediate complex or volatile issues. Consultants Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn describe 5 barriers to effective listening and 10 tips to help every leader become more successful. The post Leadership: Listening to Others in Volatile Times first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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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
JANUARY 19, 2022
Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an edtech tool that gave shy students superpowers in their college courses. Her premise was that a key link between professors and students was broken. Specifically, she felt that emails between professors and students led to inequalities when it came to which students understood material or got clarifications on how to do assignments.
Free Technology 4 Teachers
JANUARY 19, 2022
This blog post was sponsored by Lumio, but it features a bunch of other great tools as well. At this point in the school year and our second school year in a pandemic, we’ve all become familiar with the nuts and bolts of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, or whatever other platform your school uses for live, online instruction. The challenge is no longer how to use those tools, it's how to use them in conjunction with other collaborative learning tools so that our students don’t suffer from dev
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 20, 2022
Student success depends mightily on three pieces: student, teacher, parent. But there are times as teachers we wonder if we are communicating effectively with parents. Teaching Channel addresses this in this fascinating article: 10 Ways to Manage Difficult Families. Middle School Math Teacher, Kelly Ann Ydrovo recently completed Learners Edge continuing education Course 859: Parent Trap: Achieving Success with Difficult Parents & Difficult Situations and outlined her top 10 strategies for
Middle Web
JANUARY 17, 2022
Co-teaching is the preferred way to serve multilinguals, but it's not the only way to collaborate with colleagues. Language specialist Tan Huynh shows how we can make pull-out services more impactful with co-planning that emphasizes both grade-level content and language skills. The post How Pull-Out Models Can Be Collaborative first appeared on MiddleWeb.
ED Surge
JANUARY 21, 2022
What is a day in the life of a school principal like right now? Well, it starts the night before when staff start texting and emailing to let you know that they’ll be out. You hope they’re OK and remind them to put the absence in the online management system in the hope that a substitute will pick it up. You go to sleep, though it may be a restless one, given all that tomorrow will bring.
Free Technology 4 Teachers
JANUARY 20, 2022
Earlier this week a reader reached out to me with a concern about ViewPure. For many years ViewPure has been a popular tool for teachers to use to hide distracting sidebar and "related" content when playing YouTube videos in their classrooms. There are other tools like it. If you find yourself looking for alternatives to ViewPure, here are some things to try.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 19, 2022
When testing moved online, it became painfully apparent to teachers how little students knew about using digital devices other than the internet, some apps, and iPads. The focus on online learning, thanks to COVID, has made that even more critical. IT Pro has an interesting article discussing the importance of digital literacy: Digital literacy is as important as reading and writing, Vodafone claims.
User Generated Education
JANUARY 17, 2022
I’ve discussed experiential learning in The Imperative of Experiential and Hands-On Learning and the lesson I describe in this post meets the characteristics I described in that blog post: In an effort to engage students both in a STEM activity and learn more about the Olympics, I created a lesson on bobsledding. Standards Addressed. As a STE(A)M lesson, it addresses cross-curricular standards: Next Generation Science Standards (Science).
ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2022
The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. In fall 2021, I took my first steps into the world of ungrading. Inspired by Susan D. Blum’s book “ Ungrading ,” I went fully gradeless in my upper-level Euclidean Geometry class. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. The general plan was to have students describe how they met criteria for success that I laid out, include a portfolio of their work to support it, and decide for themselves what f
Free Technology 4 Teachers
JANUARY 21, 2022
This is an excerpt from the most recent issue of my weekly Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. Video projects provide a great opportunity for students to work together to create something all team members can be proud of. But for any good project to come together, students need to have a plan and need to have roles within the group. This is true whether students are making an animated video made with Canva , a book trailer video made with Adobe Express , a documentary with WeVideo , or just about any
National Science Foundation
JANUARY 20, 2022
This year we will celebrate the 20 th Anniversary of the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program ! This milestone has me celebrating two decades of success and evolution while also asking: What must the next 20 years of Noyce look like to cultivate a national cadre of K-12 STEM teachers and teacher leaders equipped to support America’s richly diverse youth, young adults, and the future needs of our workforce?
Teachers are Terrific
JANUARY 20, 2022
Pipe cleaner projects? Really? Yes, really! I have written about straws and craft sticks, using string, and so many more materials. But never have I focused on pipe cleaner projects! So, let’s take a look at ten projects that include using these versatile fuzzy sticks. In this post, for your convenience, you may find Amazon Affiliate links to resources.
ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2022
A few years ago, Neosho School District in Southwest Missouri realized they were in a crisis. Their suicide rates between 2014 and 2018 were well above the national average. In fact, this small district of roughly 4,700 children was averaging two suicides per year. They knew they had to take action. A few years ago, Neosho School District in Southwest Missouri realized they were in a crisis.
Vivify Stem
JANUARY 19, 2022
Go on a Mission to Mars! An inside look into Space Club’s Mission to Mars Post by Michelle Bogden January 19, 2022 I am a science teacher for grades 5- 8, and last fall, my students went on an epic adventure as we tested out Space Club’s Mission to Mars curriculum! Read below for our experience and two space-themed engineering design challenges you can try in your classroom!
Robot Lab
JANUARY 20, 2022
By Devin Partida. Image source: [link]. T here’s no denying that STEM fi elds lack diversity. For example, engineering and computer science, two of the most lucrative fields, remain male-dominated. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), 21% of engineering college students and 19% of computer science majors are female. Many organizations, colleges, and universities are trying to address these gaps through various educational measures.
Online Math for All
JANUARY 18, 2022
How to Find Slant Asymptote of a Function (Oblique) - Examples with step by step explanation
ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2022
It turns out emergency remote instruction is far from new. Back in 1937, when a polio outbreak plagued the U.S., Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. The system helped keep students learning during a three-week shut-down. But it didn’t lead to a revolution in radio teaching. Will things be different now in a health crisis that is longer, and the technology of the internet and iPads and smartphones are more robust?
Box Light
JANUARY 17, 2022
J.K. Hileman Elementary School in Queen City, TX recently purchased Robo E3 3D printers and MyStemKits standards-driven STEM curriculum. After a half-day training in October, one teacher quickly jumped in to use this award-winning STEM solution. Let us introduce you to Haley Williams.
Love Learning STEM
JANUARY 16, 2022
Task cards are so versatile, and there are so many task card games that you can play in science class! It’s perfect for any time of the year, but especially awesome before major science exams. These fun games won’t even feel like learning, but your students will get the perfect science test prep and review. Below you will find a list of games and review activities you can play in your upper elementary science classes.
Robot Lab
JANUARY 18, 2022
By Dan Matthews. Unsplash. Teaching in a STEM environment is tricky. No matter how hard you try, it always seems as though some students just can’t resonate with the learning material, or have had so many negative experiences with STEM in other classrooms that they’re unwilling to try due to fear of failure or embarrassment. This is a problem for society, as well as teachers.
EiE Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
Using storybooks to support standards-based STEM lessons is essential for cross-curricular learning in elementary grades - and engaging pictures and fun characters are a great way to connect with students. While these books can be used for independent and group activities, reading the stories aloud elevates STEM learning to the next level.
Online Math for All
JANUARY 19, 2022
Converting Recurring Decimals to Fractions - Concept - Examples
Defined Learning
JANUARY 19, 2022
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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