Computing Education Research Blog
MAY 25, 2022
In February, I was invited to give a lecture at the University of Washington’s Allen School. I had a great day visiting there, even though it was all on Zoom. My talk is available on YouTube: I got a chance to talk to Jeff Heer and Amy Ko before my visit. The U-W CSE department had been thinking about making a push into computing education research.
Middle Web
MAY 24, 2022
Writing a decade ago, Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters wondered if online learning could replace physical school. Now as they evaluate the costs to students of pandemic driven education, the teachers turned school leaders have their answer: Content in a human vacuum can’t sustain itself. The post Can Tech Replace the Classroom? Should it? first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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Educators Technology
MAY 23, 2022
Annotation is a great way to capture and record your thoughts as you interact with reading resources (e.g., web pages, documents, PDFs, images, and videos). Annotation also offers a deeper.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 23, 2022
If you’re not familiar with Kiddom , you should be, especially in the changing environment of today’s classroom. Kiddom is an all-in-one education platform for remote or in-person learning or a hybrid of the two that provides a high-quality digital curriculum capable of integrating curriculum management, instruction, assessment, and communication tools into one location.
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.
Cool Cat Teacher
MAY 21, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The end of the school year can be so exciting and give us ideas for great teaching. Jillian DuBois talks about her end of the school year and from the conversation we have twelve inspiring ideas for classrooms everywhere including: How to Use the element of surprise in learning.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Educators Technology
MAY 26, 2022
It was never a mystery that teachers get so many papers to check before a specific deadline that they’re often ready to drop everything and fall asleep at the end of the day. Irritation and stress.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 26, 2022
As you end your school year, there are lots of details that must be taken care of. If you use Google Classroom, here’s a list, created by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Scott Winstead: How to Clean Up Google Classroom for the Summer. As the school year comes to an end, teachers everywhere are getting ready for summer break. For many, this means cleaning out classrooms and organizing materials for the next year.
STEM Next
MAY 26, 2022
Seven Fun and Family-Friendly Ideas for a Summer of STEM. coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew. Photo by Christopher Beloch on Unsplash. Summer is coming. So is the search for ideas to support summer learning. With less structure and more time for self-directed play, summer is an ideal time to encourage children’s interests, confidence, and creativity.
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
The pandemic forced lasting changes on the American education system. It also brought an explosion of private investments into edtech. What exactly that means for the future technology in schools is still uncertain. The pandemic bump that many edtech firms experienced has faded, but private capital’s interest in edtech, and in shaping the education system, remains.
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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.
Educators Technology
MAY 26, 2022
What is plagiarism and how to avoid it? Two questions every student need to be able to answer clearly and decidedly. To this end, I compiled this collection of educational videos that will help you.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 25, 2022
Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Here is a good discussion on the pros and cons of Turnitin as well as options available, from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: Reliable Turnitin Alternatives for K12. It was never a mystery that teachers get so many papers to check before a specific deadline that they’re often ready to drop everything and fall asleep at the end of the
Middle Web
MAY 22, 2022
When differentiation and rigor are intertwined the result helps all students learn at high levels. Combining the two is not more work, it’s more effective, says teaching consultant Barbara R. Blackburn. Using a content literacy lesson, she shares her three-group strategy. The post How to Keep the Rigor in Differentiated Lessons first appeared on MiddleWeb.
ED Surge
MAY 24, 2022
The fast-growing startup Class Technologies will acquire the virtual classroom tool Blackboard Collaborate, according to an announcement last week. Class Technologies became one of the best-funded new edtech startups since the start of the pandemic, having raised more than $164 million to build out a series of classroom features on top of Zoom. That means colleges, schools and corporate-training operations pay Class for the ability to do things like give out assignments, proctor tests and take a
Educators Technology
MAY 21, 2022
When it comes to creating engaging training videos, screen recorders are among the best tools to use in this regard. They are simple, easy to use, and, most importantly, enable you to add a personal.read more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 27, 2022
Memorial Day (May 30, 2022) is the time we remember all of those soldiers who gave their lives in the defense of American freedom. In war and peace, they made the ultimate sacrifice and because of them we are privileged to live the American Dream. Once a year, we honor them, their sacrifice, and those they left behind. Here are some activities to help students understand the import of this day: Folding the American flag.
User Generated Education
MAY 22, 2022
One of my favorite things to do as an educator is to create lessons plans that help students address content standards through authentic learning activities and develop transferrable skills. For the stop motion animations, both English Language Arts Common Core and ISTE Standards were addressed. Plus, students had fun, were fully engaged, and developed a greater tolerance for long term projects.
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
Educator shortages continue to be a top concern for many. And the trend of teachers leaving the classroom is unlikely to reverse course anytime soon. In a recent National Education Association survey of roughly 3,600 educators, more than half indicated that they were likely to leave or retire from education sooner than planned because of the pandemic.
Educators Technology
MAY 27, 2022
Google Classroom is a platform that helps facilitate and enhance teaching and learning. It provides a set of powerful features that make it an ideal tool to use with students. In this post, I.read more.
Starfish Education
MAY 26, 2022
The post STEM Fair Resources for Busy Teachers appeared first on Starfish Education.
STEM Discovery Education
MAY 27, 2022
Summer is supposed to be fun—and summer learning should be, too! Whether you’re looking for curriculum support, at-home activities for students, or professional learning resources, we’ll help you make this a summer to remember! Dive In to Ready-to-Use Activities. Kick off summer with the Summer Learning Activities Channel , full of ready-to-use activities that cover a wide range of topics, subjects, and grade levels.
ED Surge
MAY 24, 2022
Scientists ran an unusual summer camp in the 1970s and ‘80s—and its main purpose was to study the sleep patterns of kids and teens. Campers actually wore electrodes all day so they’d be ready to plug in for monitoring. What researchers found, and have continued to study in the years since, is that teens have different, and greater, needs when it comes to sleep than people of other ages.
Educators Technology
MAY 27, 2022
The post-pandemic learning landscape is evolving quickly as universities once again transitionaround the pandemic. Some are calling for in-person only learning now all restrictions have.read more.
Computing Education Research Blog
MAY 26, 2022
I met Ruthe Farmer ( Wikipedia page ) when she represented the Girl Scouts in the early days of the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) alliances. She played a significant role in NCWIT. I had many opportunities to interact with her in her roles at NCWIT and CSforAll. Ruthe organized the White House summit with ECEP in 2016 (see blog post ) when she was with the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama administration.
Career in STEM
MAY 23, 2022
win $500 to launch your future STEM career, today! Dates: June 1 to August 16, 2022 Award Amount: $500. Description: In the Career In STEM® Summer Scholarship Contest you will plan, create, and share a Personal Passion Project (PPP). A PPP can be anything – create a video game, organize an event, invent something using engineering, it’s your call! The goal of the PPP is to take a deep dive on something you are interested in to build your talents and change the world ??
ED Surge
MAY 26, 2022
There was so much data waiting to be explored in College Scorecard’s seemingly endless depths that we went back for more. This time, we’re taking a look at what its thousands of data points can tell us about graduation at institutions in the U.S. Getting To The Finish Line Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard | Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo Plenty of students enter community college with the goal of transferring to a four-year institution.
User Generated Education
MAY 23, 2022
Toy Take Apart and Repurposing is always a great favorite both with my gifted students and with my campers during my summer Toy Hacking and Making camp. I purchase battery-operated toys from ebay and thrift stores. Because I am always seeking ways to improve my lessons, I was excited to add the repair mindset reflection, the micro:bit driven Plushpal, and circuit jewelry to this activity this past spring.
Jay Flores
MAY 26, 2022
I recently served as host of PBS’s Innovation TV show Make48! During that experience I was able to interact with engineers and product designers from Trek Bicycle. It was so cool to learn about all of the innovation that goes into creating bicycles and bike share stations. This experience along with my personal love for bicycle riding is why I was so excited to answer the Mystery Science question: How were bicycles invented?
Online Math for All
MAY 22, 2022
Exponential Growth and Decay - Concept - Formulas - Problems with step by step solutions
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
Michelle Kang has spent much of her first month as the new CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) on something of a listening tour. She’s visited child care programs to see and hear what providers and educators are facing more than two years into the pandemic. She’s had numerous conversations with folks in the field about the challenges that are holding them back from thriving in a profession they love—staffing shortages, low pay, better opportunities elsewhe
Box Light
MAY 25, 2022
In this lesson Meredith Williams, Boxlight MimioMaster, shares how she used the MyStemKits Density Cubes Kit to help her students demonstrate understanding of the concept of density.
Middle Web
MAY 25, 2022
Literacy mavens Brenda Krupp, Lynne Dorfman and Aileen Hower are more than excited about the possibilities of summer reading this year. Check out their many ideas for choice-based summer programs, including book swaps, virtual author visits, online clubs and more. Plan now! The post Help Students Become Super Summer Readers first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Online Math for All
MAY 22, 2022
Linear vs Exponential Growth - Concept - Examples
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