Career in STEM
JUNE 2, 2022
Looking for some fun summer STEM activities? Don’t be bored at home this summer! Here are some of my favorite ideas to get active, engaged, and exploring in STEM all summer long: Museums and Libraries. Your local libraries and museums are a great resource. Many offer summer programs for kids to keep them engaged over the summer and prevent learning loss.
Educators Technology
MAY 31, 2022
Nitro Type is a free online car racing game that helps players enhance their typing skills through competing with other players in real-time. Each player has a race car whose speed is determined by.read more.
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CSTEM
MAY 31, 2022
Written by: Reagan Flowers, Ph.D. This time of year is always an exciting one. My team and I get to celebrate the achievements of our STEM students as they graduate and move on to the next steps in their paths. However, as we celebrate these inspiring grads, we also continue to look forward proactively to those who will graduate in the coming years.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 31, 2022
Teaching Channel is one of my favorite hands-on resources for how to teach. They offer lots of videos from the classroom, showing teachers at work, but also well thought out discussions on topics that impact education. This one is on mindfulness. I hope you enjoy it: Mindfulness to Calm, Focus, & Learn. By Alexa Simon on May 5, 2022. Mindfulness is a health and well-being practice utilized by families from around the world.
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.
ED Surge
JUNE 1, 2022
Diving into a magnified human cell. Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Tossing a Frisbee on the quad with a classmate who lives 700 miles away. These scenarios are far-fetched for most college students. Yet a new virtual reality experiment aims to make them possible. Ten higher education institutions across the U.S. have signed up to create digital versions of themselves that look 3D and feel immersive when accessed by students wearing VR headsets.
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Defined Learning
JUNE 1, 2022
Many of you know and love meal kits – the kind you can order from Home Chef, Hello Fresh, Blue Apron or many other companies. I think they’re a fitting analogy to the kind of pre-built performance tasks offered by Defined Learning.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 2, 2022
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: Laptop frozen? Do this. Category: Security, Problem-solving.
ED Surge
JUNE 1, 2022
Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. WASHINGTON — Curiosity and creativity were on display when dozens of top teachers from around the U.S. gathered on the National Mall at the end of April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Educators Technology
MAY 29, 2022
Over the last nine months, PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for the freedom of expression, found that American schools have banned 1,145 books. In 41 per cent of these books central characters.read more.
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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.
Vivify Stem
JUNE 1, 2022
Design a Sustainable Eco-House STEM Project Post by Kristina Ohl June 1, 2022 In the Eco-House Extravaganza STEM project, students work in teams to complete the ultimate project-based learning STEM experience: planning and designing an energy-efficient, eco-friendly house! Read below for how to implement a project that incorporates environmental and earth science, STEM careers, sustainability, and teamwork.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 30, 2022
I’m taking the day to honor our all soldiers on America’s Memorial Day. Without their sacrifice, where would we be?
ED Surge
JUNE 3, 2022
Over the past decade, global investment in edtech has soared to new heights. The urgent need to educate children at home created by COVID-19 lockdowns turbocharged already existing momentum, and analysts now expect edtech expenditure to reach an eye-watering $300 billion globally this year. But the sudden reliance on edtech during global school closures also painfully exposed some of its current weaknesses.
Educators Technology
JUNE 1, 2022
ABCya is a website that provides free learning games for kids in grades Pre K through 6. ABCya learning Games are organized by grade and subject area and cover a wide array of topics including.read more.
STEM Next
JUNE 1, 2022
Looking Beyond the Classroom to Get Students Back into Learning. A note from Ron Ottinger, Executive Director STEM Next Opportunity Fund. Everywhere we turn, we see headlines and stories hyper-focused on student “learning loss” with the release of daunting new data assessing student learning. It can be overwhelming at best. . However, this moment gives us the opportunity to address the issues with the proven measures we know work.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 2, 2022
June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. get 3 free print books of the grade level you purchased. (domestic purchase or freight-forwarders only). Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between June 4th-8th get three per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one. To take advantage of this special, purchase from Structured Learning with PayPal or a PO.
ED Surge
MAY 31, 2022
Like tech stocks in general, edtech has taken a nosedive over the past six months or so. There have been stunning valuation declines, with brand name failures like Robolex, once acclaimed as the “future of education”—seeing half its stock value vanish in the past year and with investors predicting more tough times ahead for the company’s shareholders.
Educators Technology
MAY 28, 2022
FlexiQuiz is an online test maker that allows teachers to create and share a wide variety of quizzes, assessments, and exams. It offers an intuitive and easy to use editor that can help you configure.read more.
STEM Education Works
MAY 31, 2022
Your room is packed up for the summer. The posters are down from the walls for that district-wide painting project. You are just about ready to turn off the lights and lock the door for the last time before summer vacation. But wait! Have you made plans to care for your Sphero robots? In this week’s blog, we’ll look at ways to make sure your Spheros will be ready to go for the new school year (even if you aren’t).
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 3, 2022
Here are the most-read posts for the month of May. Tech Teacher Appreciation Week. Encourage Creativity in the Classroom. #CUE22 and Trending Edtech. 12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year. 5 Ways to Involve Parents. 3 Websites on Architecture/Engineering. 13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading. Kiddom’s Newest Feature–Lesson Launch.
ED Surge
JUNE 1, 2022
Researcher Kathy Hirsch-Pasek has a challenge she would like to see lawmakers in the U.S. Congress take on—call it a dare. She wants all 535 of them to spend a day taking the lead in an early childhood classroom. Just one day would be enough to show the folks in Congress how difficult and important the work is, says Hirsch-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Educators Technology
MAY 31, 2022
Cool Math Games offers access to a wide range of free math challenges that helps students sharpen their mathematical skills. These include free thinking, strategy, and logic games. Cool Math.read more.
Futurum
MAY 31, 2022
Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings. Published: May 31, 2022. Storms or hurricanes can damage buildings in a single incident. New engineering efforts at the Iowa State and Kansas State Universities are creating buildings adept at withstanding the effects of wind – not just through designing stronger structural systems, but by enabling the buildings to change their shape to adapt to changing wind conditions.
Middle Web
JUNE 1, 2022
Teacher educator Curtis Chandler guides us through Global Pandemics, a “fantastic” free Chrome app that transports teachers and students back in time to the lives, choices, and dilemmas faced by individuals during some of the most severe plagues and pandemics in history. The post Global Pandemics App Shares Fantastic Tales first appeared on MiddleWeb.
ED Surge
JUNE 1, 2022
Over the past year, we’ve amplified the voices of educators as they navigated the fallout from the pandemic through our Voices of Change project, creating opportunities for educators to reflect, share and learn from one another through journalism, storytelling and research. We explored how school communities were adapting to meet the needs of all learners, particularly in response to the pandemic and the national conversation about racial identity and racism.
Basic-Mathematics
JUNE 2, 2022
To learn a great deal about exponents and their properties.
STEM Sport
JUNE 2, 2022
Math is among the most widely used skill that students learn during their education. Regardless of job title and lifestyle, people use math in their daily life. This makes teaching kids math fundamentals an essential part of early childhood education. Math is a subject that can be daunting to students, leading to a lack of confidence in the subject.
Middle Web
MAY 30, 2022
You’ve spent the school year teaching students skills and strategies and covering the curriculum, giving your best to all your classes. Now as the year winds down, the time has come to let the students take over. See how Kathie Palmieri’s middle grades kids share learning. The post Kids Love End-of-Year Classroom Takeovers! first appeared on MiddleWeb.
EiE Blog
MAY 31, 2022
As AAPI Heritage Month and Inventors Month are celebrated in classrooms across the country, we’re excited to highlight inventions from Asian American and Pacific Islanders that made the world a better place.
Basic-Mathematics
MAY 28, 2022
Learn how to calculate a break-even point for a business model
Fiendishly Clever
JUNE 3, 2022
Background The inclusive science group is made of interested educators from all phases and sectors who have an interest in teaching students who have additional support needs or special educational needs. It is organised by Rob Butler from the ASE and Jane Essex (ASE and RSC member), who both have an interest in this area … Continue reading "Meeting 9 of the Inclusive Science Education group (ideas to take away and try)".
Middle Web
MAY 31, 2022
Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn have advice that can help school leaders stay attuned to today’s constantly changing school environment, recognize the stress of external factors, and use strategies that encourage teachers’ intrinsic motivation and sense of self-efficacy. The post Motivating Teachers in Challenging Times first appeared on MiddleWeb.
STEM Education Guide
JUNE 3, 2022
My family loves Magna Tiles because they are durable, simple, and can be put together in any shape your kids can imagine. From what I’ve seen, there’s really only one downside, and that’s the price. That’s why I set out to find the best alternative to Magna Tiles. I was happy to invest in a complete set, but I started looking for Magna Tile alternatives when we wanted to expand.
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