EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . Drone Competition Creates Fun STEM Opportunity.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

You may be familiar with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum and how it prepares students to enter the workforce with practical, high-demand skills. But adding the arts alongside these subjects (thus creating STEAM: STEM plus arts) can improve your students’ academic performance. STEAM Curriculum. Genius Hour.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education. elementary schools, according to Mystery Science co-founder Keith Schact. Talks with Discovery Education initially began with this in mind around the end of 2019, according to Schacht.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. . As you can see in my Semester 2 study guide document as we were reviewing Python Programming concepts, I added handouts that let students work problems on the pages as we went through the review guide.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens. I was told to study my own students and investigate what worked best. A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. It is time to know and do better.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 1, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, October 1, 2018 — Vernier Software & Technology and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are now accepting applications for the 2019 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards. Louis, Missouri, on April 11 – 14, 2019. All current K–12 and college science educators need to apply by December 17, 2018. “We

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Dr. Michael Rousell studies these moments and relates them to neuroscience. Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020. Teachers can download a FREE K-12 standards-aligned lesson plan on car design that includes STEM concepts and art.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment. By now, they’ve worked with most districts in the state.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Historical Context in Social Studies : When discussing the Civil Rights Movement in a history class, students draw on their prior knowledge of earlier historical events like slavery and the American Civil War to better understand the context and significance of this movement. Prior Knowledge: What Does the Research Say?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. It was my first full-time teaching job. I decided I was well-positioned to help make a change.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I saw many interesting products at FETC 2019 in Orlando last week, but here are the ones that resonated most strongly because of their uniqueness and immediate classroom application. Are your elementary teachers exhausted from trying to find the best app for each student? Lucid for Education.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. Elementary school students have the least access to personal devices, at 71%. Try this recommendation for elementary school computer labs: Put 25-30 computers together adjacent to the library. Learning lab.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. We did a study of 100,000 hours of audio of non-TeachFX users. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession. Poskin says. Seven seconds, per hour.”

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Read the whole thing (it's short) but here are some pertinent excerpts: The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach. But the authors of the study have brought some of that variability upon themselves, by including K12 along with higher ed institutions in the study.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

I n a 2019 survey of the state’s school principals, 81 percent reported they could find few or no satisfactory applicants for middle-school science jobs. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. In 2019 about a quarter of Kentucky’s teachers held provisional or emergency certificates.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. Do former CTE students find jobs in the industries they studied? In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Studies in districts like Los Angeles Unified have found that students who passed Algebra I by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate as those who did not. Or through studying the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. Passing Algebra I is also a requirement for high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

Charoscar Coleman earned a dual degree in economics and business from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s degree in secondary education from The George Washington University, and a doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Maryland College Park. They laugh constantly with their three children.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 17, 2018

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on PBL! There are projects for elementary levels as well as project ideas for middle and high school. PBL Social Studies Project Ideas by grade level. High Tech Elementary – Their high school projects are awesome.

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techlearning

APRIL 12, 2018

A panel of NSTA-appointed experts chose the winning educators—one elementary teacher, two middle school teachers, three high school teachers, and one college-level educator—for their innovative use of data-collection technology in the science classroom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 15, 2018

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on PBL! Elementary may be different from high school. In fact, in elementary almost any subject can connect to ELA. I do hope you enjoy! Can you match it to those standards? How long should my project last? Have a great week!

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techlearning

APRIL 12, 2018

A panel of NSTA-appointed experts chose the winning educators—one elementary teacher, two middle school teachers, three high school teachers, and one college-level educator—for their innovative use of data-collection technology in the science classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

But a large survey of 2,000 elementary schools in three states found that not much advanced content is actually being taught to gifted students. The researchers did not disclose the names of the three states they studied but said they were located in the South and Midwest.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The group points to slumping test scores as a reason why change is needed: Eighth grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have been flat for a decade, with just 34 percent of students testing proficient in 2019, as the gap between the highest and lowest performers grows. Related: Middle school is often difficult.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 7, 2021

Dr. Marks also clarified while implicit bias is currently a hot topic, it has been identified and studied by social scientists for more than half a century, so there are research studies and historical data that document how it works and why it is so pervasive. Defining Implicit Bias and Its Impact. About the Host.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects — even PE Rajbhandari, who plans to study public policy and math at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this fall, said that racism — not politics or funding — has proved the biggest obstacle to climate action on the school and district level.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019. In Denver, on the other hand, districtwide data shows that suspensions were down by 55 percent in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019, though 1,000 of Denver’s 92,000 students were suspended in the first four months of the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. Those figures may seem at odds with the state’s 2019 NAEP scores, in which black students outperformed their national peers on the fourth-grade reading exam.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported.

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