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Resources to Teach Taxes

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a passionate Economics major in college (which grew into an MBA), I find Econ at the root of much of the world around us. It starts with counting coins in first and second grade and grows up to a peek into NASDAQ and other adult subjects in middle school. In the US, tax day is April 15th. Here are some good websites to discuss what is probably a popular topic in families: Taxes.

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WHY STEM EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS?

STEM Discovery

STEM education, from an educator’s point of view; Although it is defined as a rich set of activities that replace the lesson-based teaching strategy with more student-centered strategies based on inquiry and project, it is actually a concept that structures … Continue reading → The post WHY STEM EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS?

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A STEM-Driven Marble Run Using Instructables and Tinkercad

User Generated Education

STEM lessons are a strong focus in my 4th-6th grade gifted classes. I teach at two Title 1 schools with primarily Hispanic students. Our district works to identify students often underrepresented in gifted education programs. My mission in working with my students includes helping them gain knowledge and skills to situate them to be competitive with more privileged students when they get to high school and college.

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TypingClub- Learn Touch Typing Through Interactive Games

Educators Technology

TypingClub is a web-based platform that helps you learn touch typing through a wide variety of lessons and interactive games. TypingClub also provides a school edition which allows you to.read more.

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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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Assistive Technology in Colleges

Ask a Tech Teacher

With technology, it is so much easier to offer students the assistive technology they need to pursue their education dreams. The Tech Edvocate has so great suggestions for apps and prograsms to help those with specialized needs: What to Ask Colleges About Assistive Technology – The Tech Edvocate. 10 More Educational Technology Concepts Every Teacher Should Know About.

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Pandemic Learning Was Tough On Everyone. Bilingual Students Faced Additional Challenges

ED Surge

PHARR, TEXAS — In the entryway of Graciela Garcia Elementary, visitors are greeted twice. Once by a huge multi-colored sign that says “Welcome” and again by one that reads “Bienvenidos.” Another sign cheerfully declares, “Today is English day!” All that is made explicit because Garcia Elementary is a dual-language school. Just a couple days after Thanksgiving break 2021, its teachers aren’t just trying to get students caught up on multiplication tables or grammar.

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Best Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers and Students

Educators Technology

A mind map, as AYOA defines it, is a 'visual thinking tool used to capture information and ideas'. It is a mental heuristic that helps us capture and organize our ideas and thoughts in a more.read more.

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Tech Tip #53: How to Make a Program Easy to Find

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: How to Make a Program Easy to Find.

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Last Mile Education Fund–Making a Big Difference

Computer Science Teacher

We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rule (no calculators back then) and it really slowed me down with math. I sometimes wonder what a more expensive and accurate slide rule would have done for me. I had other privileges and did well in the long run. But that is not the case for everyone.

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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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The Pandemic Is Changing How Colleges Offer Tutoring. Will Students Use It?

ED Surge

Getting tutoring at Arkansas State University has long been easy. A student could just walk into a campus tutoring center and get help from a tutor, on demand—for free. But in practice, that approach hasn’t always worked for students. For one thing, even though tutoring centers at the university offer expert tutors in a long list of subjects, not all of those experts were on hand at any given time.

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GitMind- A Great Online Mind Map Maker Tool for Teachers and Students

Educators Technology

GitMind is a free web based tool that enables you to create beautiful mind maps. It is an ideal tool for brainstorming and project planning. Collaborative teamwork is another great feature.read more.

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18 Easter Websites and Apps

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Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and gifts — and chocolate! Overall, it is America’s most-popular holiday with Christmas a close second. The date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox.

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Looking Ahead to the Last Weeks of School!

Middle Web

What can you and your students accomplish the last few weeks of school? In this MiddleWeb Resource Roundup educators share activities that align learning with fun, offer ideas for responding to stress, and suggest strategies to help sustain your classroom community. The post Looking Ahead to the Last Weeks of School! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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A Major Textbook Publisher Has Gone Private. What Does That Mean For Its Transition To Digital?

ED Surge

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based K-12 education content and technology provider, has finished its sale to Veritas Capital, an investing firm which markets itself as seeking to improve education.

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Top 5 Text to Speech iPad Apps for Teachers and Students

Educators Technology

Speech to text technology is one of the best inventions that has radically transformed the human life. There is no known period in our history in which people were able to convert reading.read more.

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Tech Tools for Reading Fluency

Ask a Tech Teacher

SmartBrief has an excellent article worth your time to read: Top 5 tech tools to maximize reading fluency. It is written from the perspective of a 2nd-grade teacher: Teaching in a pandemic presented teachers with a whole new batch of problems to solve, whether through distance, hybrid or in-person learning models. Putting all technicalities and connectivity issues aside, teachers wanted to maximize engagement and student learning all the more. .

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Becoming Financially Literate

Defined Learning

In many schools across the country, we are starting to see an increased focus on the importance of financial literacy. April is Financial Literacy Month, a time to focus on helping students to develop essential skills that will be an important part of their everyday life, not just in the future , but now. The focus on financial literacy in April shifted from being a small event to an annual event, led by the non-profit organization Jump$tart Coalition.

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Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand

ED Surge

Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. On June 30, founder and CEO Alan Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will step down, allowing Charles Salter to step into the top spot.

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Top 10 Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Apps for iPad

Educators Technology

Below is a collection of some of the best apps for creating mind maps. The apps offer a wide variety of helpful features that make it easy to visually capture your ideas and thoughts into.read more.

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5 Innovative Skills Children Get With Robotics

Robot Lab

By Nancy Howard. Robotics is already used by schools all around the world. Machines such as RobotLAB’s Pepper Robot are the primary examples of what robotics ideally looks like in practice and how it can be applied in different activities. Indeed, children find robots interesting and programming them entertaining. Robot kits like Lego Mindstorms have become popular precisely for those reasons.

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Apr 14, Playing Cards Probability

Online Math for All

Playing Cards Probability - Concept - Practice problems with step by step explanation

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

Is a university degree “the worst investment a young person can make?” That question was the focus of a surprising debate held at a recent education conference. And the people arguing for and against the motion were both devoted educators. The venue was the Teacher Tech Summit, a two-day virtual event last month run by T4 Education, and co-hosted with the World Bank and the edtech investment firm Owl Ventures.

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STEM Everyday #224 | NASA STEM Engagement| feat. Michael Kincaid and Alicia Baturoni Cortez

STEM Everyday Podcast

Space inspires. The United States’ space agency NASA has propelled technological breakthroughs, pushed the frontiers of scientific research, and expanded our understanding of the universe through journeys to space. These accomplishments, and those to come, share a common genesis: education in science, technology, engineering, and math. NASA STEM Engagement delivers tools for students and educators to learn and succeed.

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Top 20 Education Grants

Box Light

Many educators envision a “dream” learning space where materials, resources, and tools truly enhance the instructional experience for every student. What could that space include? A variety of manipulatives for hands-on learning, interactive displays for dynamic collaboration activities, and STEM equipment like 3D printers to boost creativity. Of course, the “reality” budget doesn’t always align with the “dream” classroom.

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K?zlar? STEM’de Kariyer Yapmaya Te?vik Etmek

STEM Discovery

How can female students be interested in STEM fields in secondary education? Research in the STEM field states that female role models are very important for STEM career fields (Hiil, C., Milgram, D. & Zachmann, K). For this reason, the science … Continue reading → The post K?zlar? STEM’de Kariyer Yapmaya Te?vik Etmek appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Why LMS Migrations Need to Be Automated

ED Surge

Over the past couple of decades, the explosion in online learning has brought with it never-before-seen innovation that has completely transformed the higher education landscape. Yet, as we’ve seen this spike in edtech innovation happening across the globe and real problems getting solved with powerful technology, it’s important to note that some big problems still exist.

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Apr 11, How to Find the Direction Cosines of a Vector With Given Ratios

Online Math for All

How to Find the Direction Cosines of a Vector With Given Ratios

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Four Paper STEM Challenges that are Fun and Low-Cost!

Science and Steamteam

Paper STEM activities are a great way to introduce children to STEM (STEAM) challenges. First of all, you have at least one of the materials. You can use printer paper, newspaper, construction paper, tagboard, index cards, and even recycled wrapping paper. Secondly, most students are highly engaged in these challenges. Some even see them as play. However, they are learning about teamwork and cooperation and usually some important science concepts.

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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Choice Boards Can!

Middle Web

Shake things up in your differentiated classroom by offering students choice via Choice Boards, Unit Menus, and Tic-Tac-Toe boards. Sixth grade literacy teacher Kelly Owens shares the why and the how without teachers reinventing the wheel. Design considerations included! The post One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Choice Boards Can! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Importance of STEM in the Classroom – 4 Ways Educators Are Acclimating to STEM Education

STEM Education Guide

It’s no secret that today’s earliest primary grade education maintains some of the staples of classrooms over the years. They range from big books for an entire class to read-aloud and calendar activities to tables for small group learning. Along these hallmarks are newer additions. Although computer centers may have substituted the housekeeping counterparts, wooden blocks are no longer the only building supplies available.

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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of 90 Degree Minus Theta

Online Math for All

Trigonometric Ratios of 90 Degree Minus Theta - Concept - Examples

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Can we decipher the mechanisms that allow plant cells to communicate?

Futurum

Can we decipher the mechanisms that allow plant cells to communicate? Humans depend on plants for their survival. Plants provide the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat, but much of their functioning remains a mystery to us. At Professor Dave Jackson ’s lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York, USA, scientists are studying the mechanisms that co-ordinate plant development.