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Happy New Year! And Public Domain Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2024: The picture above is interactive on the website. ” Here’s a 7-minute animation of Steamboat Willie from YouTube, with over 13 million views: Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Students Learn Valuable Skills Playing Esports in School. Participating in a school esports team provides an environment for these kids to learn and practice these skills. Esports in Schools Fosters STEM Learning.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

(CNY) In the spirit of celebrating cultural diversity and love of world cultures, I went ahead and prepared this list of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals that you can share with you students and help them learn more about Chinese New Year and its traditions. Chinese Zodiac Animals 1. Emperors were viewed as ‘reincarnation of dragons’.

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5 things to know about high-dosage tutoring

eSchool News

Key points: COVID learning loss is still real–here’s how districts are leveraging tutoring strategies Transforming summer school with high-dosage tutoring 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program For more news on tutoring, see eSN’s Educational Leadership page The benefits of high-dosage tutoring can’t be ignored.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. As of 2024, California is the only state that still doesn’t post serious injury or abuse data online at all. Here’s where we stand, 10 years later.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

Poorly maintained buildings make it harder for kids to learn, research shows , and can cause health problems for both the country’s 50 million students and 6 million staff , who spend a third of their waking hours in schools. It’s happened before. In 1917, floodwaters ripped Seward’s first schoolhouse from its foundation.).

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