ED Week

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nearly 40 years after a teacher made me believe I wasn’t “cut out” for STEM, it’s disheartening to still see the same barriers I faced.

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Defined Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way”. - Alan Menken. Preparing our students for the future means that we need to continue to learn more about the types of jobs that are in demand and create opportunities for our students to develop a variety of skills that are transferable to many types of work.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Digital storytelling can be an effective way to engage students in hands-on and creative learning experiences. We all love stories and stories have the potential to intrigue, immerse, and educate in various ways. As teachers and educators, we need to draw on the expressive and communicative strength of digital storytelling to provide students with optimal learning experiences where they get to engage wholly in the learning process: mind, body, and spirit.

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STEM Education Works

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hello everyone, Today we have a very special guest for this week’s blog! Geoffrey Lentner is a longtime friend of mine and fellow Purdue University graduate; we actually first met as physics undergrads at Purdue working in an astrophysics lab as research assistants! Since then, we’ve shared many of the same experiences both in terms of our educational and career paths and, of course, our love for physics (especially astrophysics).

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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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Magic EdTech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Assessments have always been an integral part of education. Until now, they’ve measured one’s ability to remember what has been taught, academic literacy, logical fluency, and the ability to perform structured tasks under controlled periods. Though assessments perform various functions in an educational space, It mainly tells educators how much of what’s been taught is being retained, understood, and applied.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The purpose of this post is to share with you a collection of teacher-tested websites and apps for creating online quizzes. These are simple and easy to use applications that will enable you to create different quiz types and formative assessment activities. Some of the features you will have access to include pre-designed quiz templates, numerous question types, multimedia support, instant grading and scoring (some of them not all), performance reports, and more. 1.

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Accelerate Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Research indicates that attitudes towards mathematics, especially at a young age, can significantly influence a child’s success in math. The good news is that there are simple strategies for introducing math concepts to play that can foster a positive attitude.

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Middle Web

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This fall with some tweaks and fresh online tools and resources, Halloween can be fun and packed with learning. Check out MiddleWeb’s updated resource collection for ideas across the content areas. The post Bring Halloween to Class for Fun and Learning first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The company that owns Lego is diving headlong into K-12 education’s switch to digital. Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired the video animation company BrainPOP for $875 million. The deal was announced Tuesday. Fueled by the digital transformation of K-12 learning, the acquisition is expected to be only the first of many for Kirkbi A/S.

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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.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Gamification is a cross-disciplinary concept that has been adopted in several sectors including marketing, healthcare, professional development trainings, politics, among others. By definition, gamification is "the incorporation of game elements into non-game settings" 1. In education, the concept of gamification has especially gained traction during the last decade or so due mainly to the advance of web technologies and mobile applications.

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Starfish Education

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The post Flexible STEM with Rolly Polly appeared first on Starfish Education.

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Middle Web

OCTOBER 9, 2022

To lead middle grades students into paying more attention to poetry ––– and even changing their often negative attitudes about reading and writing poems – author and teacher Linda Rief suggests kids create heart books, do quickwrites and illustrate lines of their own work. The post What Changes Kids’ Minds about Poetry? first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. Last year’s stress led to record levels of teacher burnout and mental health challenges for students. Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Visuwords is both a dictionary and a thesaurus that offers visual representations of words. When you search a word on Visuwords you will be able to access its definition, examples of usage when available, and the term's associations with other words and concepts. I think the strength of Visuwords lies in its ability to visualize word associations allowing users to discover a wide range of related terms and concepts.

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Scientix

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Education 2030 Framework Action, is coordinated by the UNESCO Education Agency and aims to “provide equal and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”. UNESCO’s report “Redesigning our future together: a new social contract for education” states that we need renewed and more effective approaches to help students improve

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Box Light

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It’s going to be a full day for a Lyrik like me. Ms. Rogers already had her morning cup of coffee and greeted everyone in the school office. The main office sure is a busy place! Soon Ms. Rogers and I will be heading out to help direct cars while students and parents cross the street. We want to make sure everyone gets to school safely, and Ms. Rogers always takes me along so that instructions can be heard loudly and clearly.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings. Life just happens to us, and there’s not much we can do about it. A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. Not exactly what Whitman had in mind, but I digress. While I am accustomed to hearing stories about former students, this one surprised me more than others.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay.

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Online Math for All

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Pascal Triangle and Binomial Expansion Worksheet

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EiE Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, you and your learners can build cross-curricular connections with relevant cultural stories, like Tehya's Pollution Solution Storybook.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Some introductory courses have a “weed-out” reputation for narrowing the paths students can take through college. ( Organic chemistry , anyone?) Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. For example, a new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus found that, among students who perform poorly in intro STEM classes, those who are underrepresented mino

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Language learning has never been as easier as it is right now. The Internet is teeming with all kinds of resources from online tutoring services to mobile apps focused exclusively on helping people learn new languages. One can learn to speak a language fluently right from the comforts of their own place. Dictionaries are key in this regard. In fact, they are central tools in the toolkit of not only language learners but any literate individual.

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Online Math for All

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Pascal Triangle and the Binomial Theorem - Concept - Examples with step by step explanation

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Know Adam's Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” - John Berger. What is the Explanation Game? The Explanation Game thinking routine, developed by Ron Richtart and researchers at Project Zero, supports students in increasing their understanding of a concept by crafting multiple explanations based on evidence. The routine is designed to push students’ thinking as they explore complex topics and attempt to understand the whole by examining various parts and features.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Users can scroll through more than 230 “regions” across six continents, including Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Montenegro and Myanmar. It’s a marked change from the education company’s origins, which, up until about a year ago, catered almost exclusively to students in mainland China, offering one-on-one English classes with tutors from the U.S. an

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Middle Web

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Educational leadership classes are great for the principalship. Not so much for the job of assistant principal. AP DeAnna Miller shares helpful advice she has found on her own in the books of Baruti Kafele (values and beliefs) and Ryan Donlan (day-to-day management and more). The post No One Told Us How to Be Assistant Principals first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Can we control the electrical activity in our brains? Published: Neuroscientists aim to understand how our brains work and what happens when they are not functioning properly. At the University of Oxford in the UK, Dr Adam Packer and his team are exploring how neurons transmit electrical signals and discovering how they cause us to feel sensations, by manipulating the neural activity in mice.

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ED Week

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Districts struggle to find teachers, keep up with a fast-changing field, and address racial and gender disparities in course enrollment.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Now that so much college work is done digitally in learning management systems, many colleges are trying to analyze student data from those platforms to predict which students need help. But the practice is so new that it’s not yet clear how well the approach actually works. Can big data from the LMS predict success in a class? That’s the question tackled by a research paper published this week.

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Northeastern University

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Welcome to Newsletter 40! >> Click Here for this week’s Newslette r << Welcome back! For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030. In our newsletter you will be introduced to a STEM topic and find a related-activity to work on during the week (please share your results with us!

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Futurum

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Can we harness the power of the oceans? Published: Professor Jennifer Franck leads a team of mechanical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, who are working on a device that could turn the immense power of ocean tides into a sustainable electricity supply. TALK LIKE A MECHANICAL ENGINEER. RENEWABLE ENERGY – a source of energy that will never run out.

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Defined Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2022

People in project-based learning circles have been using the term “voice & choice” for a long time. The two words were usually lumped together since they seemed like similar ideas and, well, it was a catchy rhyme. I know I used to lump them together, going back to a 2010 article where I and John Mergendoller listed it as one of the “ Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning.”.

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