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How to Introduce Tech to Kids as a Parent

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Luckily, there are plenty of reliable resources out there that can help your child learn more about STEM and technology. Educational websites such as Khan Academy and Codeacademy offer interactive lessons and coding challenges for children of all ages. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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10 Articles on Using Tech to Teach Math

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Here are ten of the top Math-and-tech tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: C-STEM Studio — A Great Way to Blend Math and Robotics. How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields. How to Use Khan Academy (free lesson plan). 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class. Hour of Code lesson bundle.

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10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

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Have them work in teams and blog about their progress–problems they faced, how they solved them.This is a fun STEM activity that students will mistake for a game. Digital Citizenship. Discuss Digital Citizenship topics appropriate to the age group. Khan Academy. Easily adapted to grades 3-12.

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11 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

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Have them work in teams and blog about their progress–problems they faced, how they solved them.This is a fun STEM activity that students will mistake for a game. Digital Citizenship. Discuss Digital Citizenship topics appropriate to the age group. Khan Academy. Class Debate. Presentation Board.

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Best-in-Category Awards for 2016

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To award this Best in Category badge, we looked for the uncommon resources (meaning: not the ones everyone knows about, like Khan Academy) most visited by our readers in each category. Winner: C-STEM — tools to learn math through robotics ( see my review ). Then we looked for the following qualities: how dependable is it.

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Must-have Resources for Blended Learning

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Some of the best online academies include Udemy , Khan Academy, and CodeAcademy. Khan Academy offers all free online courses and is focused mostly on STEM subjects, but also includes arts & humanities as well as test prep courses. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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Men behaving badly

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When I write critically about Khan Academy or Apple, I know I’ll hear an earful — and it isn’t simply an earful of disagreement. How do we start stemming this ongoing problem of men behaving badly? And there’s our own Audrey Watters : some of the posts I’ve written have resulted in some pretty awful comment threads.