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Provide Peer Support and Combat Social Isolation with After School Pairings and Groupings

Catlin Tucker

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Last week it dawned on me that I can assign homework to be completed in pairs and groups virtually. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over.

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Q&A: Matthew Mugo Fields on the Current State of Data Analytics in K–12

EdTech Magazine

Q&A: Matthew Mugo Fields on the Current State of Data Analytics in K–12. While many teachers understand the importance of data, integrations can prove burdensome on educators who do not have the background or time to use analytics tools properly. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 07/24/2019 - 08:28.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As I was grading my student’s web pages today, one student’s goals struck me. In our student’s future, “big data” means “big opportunities.” Collecting, Cleaning, and Validating Data – Students learn how data scientists make sure data is valid.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

Ask a Tech Teacher

Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. The extension of scope has led to larger experiments that need vast groups of individuals to be involved in the process. Standardizing data from multiple sources is another problem.

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Two services to Backup your cloud files and data, in the cloud

Educational Technology Guy

Many people want to go completely with cloud services, but many, like me, like having a backup of our cloud data somewhere besides that service. I keep backup''s of my Google and Evernote data on my home laptop, which also gets saved on my archive hard drive. Backing up your data and files is very important.

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SLIDE: data, interactive tools, and an equity wake-up call (Part 1)

NeverEndingSearch

We now have the data. Data Speaks: Preliminary Data on the Status of School Librarians in the U.S.” Kachel of Antioch and principal investigator Keith Curry Lance of the RSL Research Group. Connecticut—the only state in this group outside the South—rounds out the top 10 states on this ratio. and Keith Curry Lance.

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Using Vernier Data Tools on a Chromebook

Educational Technology Guy

You can even use them with Vernier Data Tools. Vernier is a huge name in data collection tools for science and math and they have been working to support Chromebooks for some time. Using Graphical Analysis for Chrome, students set experiment parameters and start data collection. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.