Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 25, 2025
Here’s what most educators and parents innately know as a truism of education: “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” –Albert Einstein Peer-to-peer learning–acquiring knowledge from a peer group–has become a popular strategy as teachers move from a teacher-lecturer education model to teacher-guide.
ED Surge
MARCH 17, 2025
Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city. But what to do with all of those empty buildings?
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Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 28, 2025
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today is AI Literacy Day, Friday, March 28, 2025. So, as my part in celebrating this day, I thought the best people to speak about this topic is my students. So, I issued a call to my AP students and two of them showed up this past Tuesday and we recorded this show. I think that their honest, intelligent, reflective thoughts of the issue of their generation and their concerns and hopes for the future where my student
Computer Science Teacher
MARCH 23, 2025
Ive been rather wrapped up in moving the last few weeks so havent been thinking about high school, or K-12, computer science education as I intended since my last blog post. Mark Gurdial thought has been doing some thinking. Check out School teachers dont need to recruit students into CS: An alternative model for K-12 computing education for his latest post.
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.
All About STEM
MARCH 7, 2025
British Science Week is a 10-day celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) taking place 7-16 March 2025, and this year’s theme is ‘Change & Adapt’ To celebrate British Science Week, BBC Teach will stream a KS2 Live Lesson so learners can discover what it takes to become an astronaut!
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 18, 2025
Minecraft has been popular with kids for a long time with no sign of slowing down. It’s useful for teaching a plethora of subjects, from history to math to geology to tech skills. Just as important, it’s that rare fun lesson that teaches problem solving and critical thinking without the usual pain. Edweek has a good article that focuses on Minecraft and coding, a quick three-minute read that is well worth your time: How Playing Minecraft Can Help Students Learn Coding Skills “S
ED Surge
MARCH 31, 2025
The state of early care and education today is, in a word, unsustainable. Thats what a recent survey of 10,000 early childhood educators found, and its what providers continue to share anecdotally. With the pandemic in the rearview and the accompanying funding it brought the field now a fading memory many early education providers find that they cannot keep up with rising costs, staff shortages and low morale.
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 17, 2025
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In the world of music education, building a thriving music program is both an art and a science. Music teachers play a crucial role in shaping the future of their students, and expert Adrian Gordon offers invaluable insights into this rewarding journey. With over 20 years of experience in the music classroom, leading all-state choruses, and authoring the book “ Note to Self: A Music Directors Guide for Transiti
Computer Science Teacher
MARCH 30, 2025
One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught. There is very little degree of agreement of what must be taught. Teachers do the best they can but there is a good amount of variation on what gets taught. One thing that seems to always (or close to always) get left out is writing safe and secure code.
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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.
All About STEM
MARCH 4, 2025
Celebrate International Women’s Day in the lead up to the 8th of March with these fantastic resources! This year’s theme is Accelerate Action: “Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality.” – IWD Let’s forge a diverse, equal, equitable, and inclusive world together!
Middle Web
MARCH 19, 2025
Communication, adaptability, and problem-solving are among the "soft" social-emotional skills that are behind-the-scenes champs of the learning process. Literacy interventionist Kelly Owens shares 10 ways she is weaving the "intangibles" employers prize into existing lessons. The post Soft Skills: Superstars of the Learning Process first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 14, 2025
Two math celebrations are coming up: Pi Day and World Maths Day Pi Day Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant (pi). It is observed March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of in the decimal form. Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, held the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes until 2015 when Rick de Jong of the Netherlands recited pi to 22,612 digits in five hours and
ED Surge
MARCH 4, 2025
Near the beginning of every semester, Sarah Z. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first. While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin.
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 14, 2025
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Im honored to contribute to The Future of Education Technology for K-12 , a new publication exploring how AI, digital citizenship, career exploration, cybersecurity, and classroom technology are shaping the future of education where I share my thoughts alongside other thought leaders including Ms.
Computer Science Teacher
MARCH 7, 2025
I love programming. I took a computer science course as an undergraduate and really fell in love with programming.While I made my living writing code for many years, my wife once wondered if I would have been happier with coding as an avocation rather than a vocation. Thats a bias I have no doubt taken in my teaching career. But is it the right bias for developing high school CS curriculum?
All About STEM
MARCH 27, 2025
Schools – Register today for an IET Faraday® Challenge Day! Free, STEM activity days with a real-world challenge and annual competition for pupils aged 12-13 years. IET Faraday® Challenge Days aim to encourage more young people to study and consider exciting and rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) by using creativity, innovation and problem-solving skills.
Middle Web
MARCH 30, 2025
Eighth grade teacher Sarah Cooper shares a class snapshot to show how much our students can understand. She believes it's the obligation of social studies teachers (and others) to explore imperative issues of the past and present, "even when it would be infinitely easier not to." The post Giving Students Agency to Help Tilt the World first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 17, 2025
St. Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated in America on March 17th to honor St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, credited with bringing Christianity to the country. The day is marked by parades, wearing green clothing and accessories, traditional Irish music and dance, feasting, and the symbolic consumption of foods and beverages like corned beef, cabbage, and Irish stout.
ED Surge
MARCH 27, 2025
One of the perks of Angie Adams job at Samsung is that every year, she gets to witness how some of the countrys most talented emerging scientists are tackling difficult problems in creative ways. Theyre working on AI tools that can recognize the signs of oncoming panic attacks for kids on the autism spectrum in one case, and figuring out how drones can be used effectively to fight wildfires in another.
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 10, 2025
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In the ever-evolving landscape of educational technology, Fortnite Creative is emerging as a groundbreaking tool for physics education and game-based learning. Andrew Vanden Heuvel, an innovative educator, is transforming the way students engage with STEM education through virtual laboratories and interactive learning experiences.
Computing Education Research Blog
MARCH 23, 2025
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) is in the process of updating their influential standards. Its a long process, and it started last summer with a visioning document called Reimagining CS Pathways. Part of their new reimagining includes dispositions which are meant to cross all content and skill areas. I am arguing here that Sense of Belonging in CS should not be in that set.
All About STEM
MARCH 27, 2025
The Liverpool City Region Careers Hub Student Careers Champions Programme is aimed at 11-19-year-olds in Secondary Schools and Further Education Colleges. The Programme is designed to improve pupil, staff and parents’ understanding of growth sectors and a wider understanding of local labour market information (LMI).
Teach Hub
MARCH 6, 2025
Whether a student is constantly interrupting their teachers lesson or quietly texting in class, any type of disruptive behavior can throw a wrench into the lesson plan. Managing these behaviors can be difficult and feel overwhelming. The key is to understand why this behavior is occurring, learn how to respond to it properly and create an environment that minimizes any classroom disruptions in the first place.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 27, 2025
A few spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities: 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring Books from Scholastic about Spring Spring Puzzle Spring Garde n–click to find flowers Spring Games Spring Vocabulary (video) Spring Word Scramble Spring Word Search What Happens in Spring (video) What Happens in Spring –PS (video) Life Cycles Life cycle of a snake Life Cycle Lesson Plans Life Cycle resources Life Cycles Life Cycle Symbaloo Plant life cycle Click for ideas from T
ED Surge
MARCH 19, 2025
In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Furthermore, the Thomas Fordham Institute describes Ohios teacher shortage as unclear due to a lack of data that could shed light on why teachers are leaving, the challenges schools face in the hiring process and the hiring trends across different schools.
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 29, 2025
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, I'm sharing what I've learned and my favorite links from this week. In a world where Perplexity can give us so much, it can't give the perspective of an American teacher who is in the classroom and her observations on what is going on around us. And while I like Perplexity like others do, I used to do these blog posts where I would share what I'd bookmarked from that week.
Computer Science Teacher
MARCH 25, 2025
The last few years have seen a huge expansion in the number and types of cyber security courses in high schools. Much of this has been driven by a growth in the realization that we, society, governments, businesses, need more help making our systems secure from bad actors. CS ed as career development. Great in career technical schools of course. Yet another CS elective in comprehensive schools as well.
All About STEM
MARCH 3, 2025
You can visit the UK Careers Fair at Anfield Stadium on Friday, the 10th of October 2025, to apply directly for hundreds of vacancies and meet local and national employers face-to-face.
Middle Web
MARCH 27, 2025
Through a combination of clear explanations, real-life strategies and vibrant illustrations by Valentina Gonzalez, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners breaks down the task of teaching multilingual students into digestible, well-structured concepts, writes Melinda Stewart. The post An Illustrated Guide to Teaching Multilinguals first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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