Here are some great blog posts from this past week:
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The final missing piece of the human genome has been decoded | Popular Science
Despite its macho connotations, the Y chromosome is among the tiniest of the 46 chromosomes in the human genome. It makes up only 2 percent of a human cell’s total DNA. But because of its seemingly endless repeating bases, the Y chromosome is one of…
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20 Best Math Teaching Apps for Teachers in 2023
Struggling to engage your students with traditional math teaching methods? In this blog, we’re going to explore some of the best math teaching apps for teachers that are not only fun and interactive but also come equipped with powerful analytics and…
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Digital citizenship, digital literacy, and education
Editor’s note: This article on digital citizenship in schools originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Sometimes it feels as though social media has taken over the world. We live in an age of competing attention to ho…
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Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Posters for Classroom – Educators Technology
Cultural diversity and inclusion posters for classroom is the topic of our blog post today! As a teacher, educator, and researcher with over 15 years of experience, I’ve long championed the importance of creating classrooms where every student feels…
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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class – Educators Technology
Strategies to talk about race in class is the topic of our post today! In today’s increasingly diverse and interconnected world, conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion have become essential components of education.
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Digital Literacy in the AI Era | EdSurge News
With AI — and all it entails — on our horizon, what better time is there than now to focus on enhancing digital literacy, improving digital access and strengthening digital skills? With the proliferation of AI, digital literacy is an imperative.
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How Robots Are Helping Better K–12 Schools | EdTech Magazine
Berger is using robots, programmed by students in the district, to automate tasks such as cutting the grass and cleaning the floors in schools. In turn, the students are learning valuable STEM skills while school maintenance doesn’t go unchecked.
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How Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships
How do teaching methods influence understanding? What can you do to make things work better in the classroom with simple fixes? Find the answers here. Mastering cause-and-effect relationships in research is crucial for a student’s academic future an…
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As we head into the 2023-24 academic year, I wanted to compile and share some resources related to social-emotional learning, mindfulness, check-ins, self-care, understanding feelings, celebrating one another, creating a culture of respect, and more.
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Why You Shouldn’t Pull Students Aside To Discuss Their Misbehavior Smart Classroom Management
Pulling a student aside for a chat about their misbehavior is a common practice. Intuitively, it would appear to make sense. But the truth is, it’s a mistake that causes more misbehavior, not less.
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How to Change the Date Format in Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration
Dates in Google Sheets are internally stored as numbers and the value is equal to the number of days since 30th December 1899, midnight. The time values are stored as a fractional number. For instance, if the date in a cell is Jan 1 1990, Google She…
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Google Workspace Updates: Third-party app access enhancements for Google Workspace for Education
Users designated as under 18 using the age-based access setting are required to request access to apps that aren’t already configured by admins with a trusted, limited, or blocked access setting.
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Digital Math Manipulatives with Mathigon – Teacher Tech
Who doesn’t love manipulatives for math?! To quote my favorite math instructor, Jo Boaler, “Math is creative and visual.” In an age of Chromebooks, how do we provide students with high quality digital math manipulatives? One source of digital math m…
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7 Great Science Posters for Classroom – Educators Technology
Science posters for classroom is the topic of our blog post today! Science education is more than just textbooks and lectures; it’s about igniting curiosity, fostering a love for exploration, and building a deep understanding of the world around us.
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Five Lesson Plan Tweaks I Borrow from Marketers
Have you ever considered how life experiences factor into your teaching practices? Before I entered education, marketing was my first career. They may seem worlds apart, but the parallels will surprise you.
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8 Tips to Make Web Content Filtering More Effective at Your School | Lightspeed Systems
Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a lot of tips to share with others.
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Is Generative AI The Most-Wanted Cyberbully? | Tech & Learning
Teachers across the country have become Instagram famous. Unfortunately, one such teacher has also experienced AI cyberbullying.
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6 Great Periodic Table of Elements Posters – Educators Technology
Periodic table of elements posters is the topic of our blog post today! The Periodic Table of Elements is more than just a scientific tool; it’s a visual guide to understanding the building blocks of our universe.
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OPINION: The charade of ‘test-optional’ admissions
As schools and testing centers shut down in spring 2020, it seemed only fair for colleges and universities to suspend ACT and SAT admissions requirements. A pandemic is as good a reason as any to change the rules.
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Active Learning vs. Passive Learning: It’s All Active Learning | EdNews Daily
Like many topics in education, the debate between “Active Learning” and “Passive Learning” relies more on philosophy than science and uses the word “learning” when what is actually being discussed is teaching.
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Finding the Low Tech, High Impact Solution to Computational Thinking Instruction – Digital Promise
The thought of teaching computational thinking (CT) to primary age students was overwhelming to teachers in Eastern Kentucky (East KY) just a few years ago, but now two teachers are leading trainings that make the daunting responsibility of developi…
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First Day of School Activities for Early Elementary Students | Waterford.org
When putting together lesson plans for the upcoming school year, it can be tempting to dive into reading and math curriculum from day one. There’s always so much to get through, and time seems in short supply. But it’s worth making time for social-e…
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A New Device Could Help Students with Disabilities Navigate Technology | EdTech Magazine
After Vega began to stutter as a child, he became interested in computer keyboards’ capacity to enable expression, something he later realized might be beneficial for people whose ability to speak or move is impaired.
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SearchReSearch: SearchResearch Challenge (8/23/23): What’s that in the belly of the Redondasaurus?
This is Redondasaurus bermani. It was huge and utterly evil looking, clearly a watery death machine that was 6.4 m (21 feet) long, and lived in the rivers and swamps of Triassic North America some 252-201 million years ago. Impressive. I’ve seen lot…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Mind Mapping Tools to Try This Year
Earlier this week a reader emailed me to ask for my suggestions for online mind mapping tools for her students to use this fall. My preference is often to draw mind maps by hand and then digitize them by taking pictures with either the Google Keep o…
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Every student deserves to have the opportunity to problem-solve and engage in genuine mathematical thinking. Rich tasks are designed to make these rich learning experiences possible.
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Sembling greatness…
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The Ultimate Guide to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Resources and guides breaking down what is universal design for learning, why implement UDL, and how to get started with UDL. Your essential guide to UDL.
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The Power of I Used to Think…Now I Think – Dr. Catlin Tucker
This is part three of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine.
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Top AR VR to Start the Year – Webinar
Did you miss the webinar this month? I’m excited to share the recording! In this session, you will learn about easy augmented and virtual reality apps that can enhance your lessons. Some of the spotlight apps include CoSpaces and the McGraw Hill AR …
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Flip vs Padlet: What is the best video tool for your class | Tech & Learning
Flip vs Padlet is a comparison on the mind of many an educator, as each tool offers powerful ways to use video in teaching — but which is best for your class?
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Cultivate STEM and STEAM skills with esports – The Thinking Stick
How do we help students learn and play simultaneously? This week’s guest explains how esports links to so many components of academic life. Curious about ways to leverage your existing curriculum, STEM and STEAM programs with esports? You need to le…
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5 Awesome Mental Health Posters for Schools – Educators Technology
Mental health posters for schools is the topic of our blog post today! In our journey to foster an inclusive and nurturing educational environment, the emphasis on mental health awareness has never been more critical.
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Empowering Students to Support Their School Communities Through Student Tech Teams | EdSurge News
As schools increasingly incorporate technology into their classrooms, student tech teams become invaluable resources in supporting both students and teachers.
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America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education.
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AI in Education: A Brief for Educators
Thanks for checking out my brain dump incredibly useful guide for educators on AI in education. This is where I will continue to curate resources on the topic as it evolves in coming weeks and months. If you have suggestions for additions, contact…
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Creativity in the classroom reduces burnout and improves well-being
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D-ID| Make AI Generated Videos From Photos | The Creative AI Platform
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The Intersection of Generative AI and Equity: A Course Overview – YouTube
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Spectacularly Detailed Armored Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Makes Its Debut | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
In 2011, a heavy equipment operator at the Millennium Mine in northern Alberta started digging up odd-colored rock. He stopped to take a closer look, puzzling over the material, which was speckled with strange patterns.
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Helping New Teachers Manage the Fish Without Being a Shark
How can seasoned educators improve the teacher retention rate? By helping new colleagues address two retention factors – student discipline and classroom climate – says middle grades veteran Sharon Ratliff. “Let’s show them how to manage their schoo…
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30 Hilarious Kid Jokes about School – Educators Technology
Kid jokes about school is the topic of our blog post today! Laughter is more than a mere response to a witty comment or a funny joke; it’s a powerful educational tool that can transform the learning experience for children.
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Dan Rather and Elliott Kirschner: The War to Destroy Public Education | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner wrote in their blog Steady about the importance of saving public education from the forces trying to destroy and privatize it. They remind us and the general public that public schools unite us; privatization is inher…
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The Ludic Spirit RAMP – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
I want to keep this Ludic Spirit idea going as it is now shaping how I view pretty much everything in a way that gamification never really did. It is a much simpler way to improve the world around me that does not rely on the sorts of reward framewo…
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Your Virtual Math Tutor. Powered by AI.
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How Virtual Reality Is Revolutionizing Police Training | ARPost
Law enforcement officers face various complex and challenging situations where they must respond to high-risk incidents involving armed perpetrators. Unfortunately, police officers in the US only receive less than six months of police training—which…
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Finding the Right Balance: Reflections on Writing a School AI Policy – Matthew Wemyss
I’ll admit, developing our school’s AI policy felt like navigating uncharted territory. I wrote an original draft policy at the start if summer, just to get “pen to paper”.
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Video Games: How gaming can actually be beneficial for your kids, “Supports cognitive growth.”
Playing video games can to parents seem like a mindless activity for kids – though recent research has revealed many adults believe video games can be quite beneficial.
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Icebreaker Activities for Teachers – Educators Technology
Icebreaker activities for teachers is the topic of our post today! The first week of a new school year can feel like a whirlwind of anticipation, excitement, and, for some, a touch of nervousness.
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Untangling the Debate Over Reading Instruction | Cult of Pedagogy
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Control Alt Achieve: Active Learning with EduProtocols and Google Tools
I am always looking for activities that get students thinking critically, collaborating, creating, communicating, and basically being engaged in the learning process. Recently I had the opportunity to record a training session on just that.
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Dopamine’s Role in Unrewarded Learning – Neuroscience News
Summary: Researchers uncovered that dopamine, the “feel-good” hormone typically associated with rewards, plays a vital role in learning even without immediate incentives.
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AI image generators provide innovative educators with new and exciting possibilities for their students and themselves. They have emerged as groundbreaking tools, offering innovative educators a wealth of new opportunities.
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Student Engagement – Setting Up Google Classroom – Teacher Tech
Google Classroom is boring. It is a box. You dump stuff in the box. The word Google does not make a box of stuff engaging. It requires intentional design and planning for how students will be engaged. Consider how you will setup Google Classroom for…
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The Science and Research Behind the UDL Framework.
“Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” It isn’t something you “do” as much as a framework that drives asset-based beliefs …
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Teach for America (TFA) was a solution to a problem it helped create. Educators have been leaving the profession for decades due to poor salary, poor working conditions, heavy expectations and lack of tools or respect.