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Why STEM literacy is critical for our students

eSchool News

Providing an engaging and equitable STEM education is an important step in helping to develop more scientists and engineers while increasing race and gender diversity in the field–both of which are much needed in today’s world. Education in STEM can also help develop a STEM-literate citizenry.

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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

Fresh off our discussions about definitions , I have found that a great many sites and authors interchange and conflate “computer literacy” and “digital literacy”. Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward. So, let’s do a Marie Kondo and declutter the concepts.

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. The Internet has made it super easy to self-educate.

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Does the Word ‘Teacher’ Still Describe What Educators Do in the Classroom?

Edsurge

To Williams, that definition had built up too many negative connotations over time, including the implication that she was simply standing in front of a classroom dictating to children—something she felt was an inaccurate depiction. Today, schools require educators to perform many roles outside the traditional understanding of teaching.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base. “Their failure is my failure.”.

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OPINION: Too many young men are missing from college campuses like mine

The Hechinger Report

So, why is it that men are falling behind in higher education? For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. Why is it that men are falling behind in higher education? And why should we care?

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Effective Instruction and Support For Emergent Bilingual Students

edWeb.net

During the edWebinar, “ Future-Ready Emergent Bilingual Education: 3 Factors to Improve Teacher and Student Support ,” Kristie Shelley, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning, and Cynthia Peng, Manager of Educational Content for Lexia English Language Development, discussed ways to achieve that goal.