21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As I deliver workshops across the country I am reminded of how much we need to prepare STEM educators with regards to a process for delivery. After all, STEM (or STEAM) is so much more than content. How can Project Based Learning and technology integration work to create a powerful STEM learning experience?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Additionally, in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association, the Computer Science Teachers Association, the National Council for the Social Studies and the American Statistical Association, we made an unprecedented joint call to build data science as an interdisciplinary subject across K-12 education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. That leaves just your typing.

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Wiki Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship 435

Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2017

But today’s math assignments can be confounding for parents who learned math in a pre-Common Core era, or in a different country — or who still harbor math anxiety from their own days at school, or never fully learned to connect the dots between everyday actions and math lessons. Five Strategies for Connecting with Families.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 7, 2016

Welcome to this second post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Science – STEM Resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Braham and other districts report that theres been no change in the number of their students taking calculus, in part because many students just arent interested in STEM-heavy careers, administrators say. That replicates what most of the studies have found, said Scott Peters, senior research scientist at educational assessment nonprofit NWEA.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

Numerade—an online education platform founded with a mission to provide equitable access to high-quality STEM instruction—today announced the launch of free, virtual STEM summer camps open to students at the middle, high school, and college levels. Registration is now open for all courses at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test social studies, or the social studies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. That leaves just your typing.

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Wiki Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship 305

User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

” For subjects like science, this is a little easier as the labs that often accompany science lessons often have a hint of STEM or maker education. It simply becomes, “How can I add a making element to my lessons to reinforce concepts being learned?”

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Education Common Core STEM Examples 182

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. The training in this area is mostly academically focused, such as common core standards and STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Every system wants to help students with a math interest learn the subject at high levels because students get a leg up when it comes to getting into college and moving into careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). All students in the district take Common Core Math 6, 7 and 8.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? and competing ideas about why so many kids struggle with this core subject. Or even newer math ?) isn’t working.

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Training Elementary Common Core STEM 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

A study released last year by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that nearly half of the nation’s teacher training programs failed to insure that their candidates were STEM-capable. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Too many students are held back from advanced math that could provide direct pathways into college level math and STEM jobs, said Ross, a former presidential awardee for her teaching. What irks her most is that decisions about who gets tracked into or out of these higher-level courses are too often based on a student’s race.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

CK-12 offers digital textbooks and learning materials in primarily STEM subjects that are searchable by curriculum or concept and can be arranged to suit student needs and interests. Digital books are aligned with state standards and Common Core. Student blogs. any platform; free/fee.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Topics include languages, music, technology, social studies, science, engineering, maths, journalism, and more. Bright Science is a free YouTube channel of over 1300 study videos for high schoolers (or precocious middle schoolers). It has become the largest STEM video library of its kind. History Channel. Education.com Songs.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Actively Learn is an excellent resource for teachers and students, providing middle and high school teachers in ELA, Science and Social Studies, resources to help their students. Questions are aligned to Depth of Knowledge and Common Core or state standards.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise. She jumped at the opportunity to pilot the program in her school.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 133

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. Then, I moved into a new role as a K-8 STEM Director at my school. To say that the year has been a whirlwind is an understatement.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Studies and tests will be done for the rest of this decade. The new name was praised by numerous politicians and talk radio hosts causing many states to adopt the newly labeled UCSS ( Uncommon Core State Standards). The standards themselves will remain as written under the original CCSS (Common Core State Standards).

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

That legislation prompted a major shift in our instructional focus that ushered more students toward careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). To that end, work must begin to align CTE standards and practices with Common Core, Next Generation Science and other content standards and frameworks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

To simplify the process for teachers, they’ve aligned their virtual math manipulatives to Common Core and State Standards. In summary, Matific lets you use math manipulatives without the work of finding just the right one for your unit of study. However, finding the perfect manipulative takes time. See Matific in Action.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 1, 2019

The Robo Wunderkind Curriculum is fifty+ hours of activities that teach and reinforce core robotics skills. Lessons are each about five hours and cover topics like road safety, math, art, and nature studies. teachers looking for clever STEAM and STEM projects. What I really like about Robo Wunderkind. Who will love this robot.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. But the site’s collection of reading lists, guides for doing policy outreach, and refugee camp case studies are useful for any high schooler or social studies teachers looking to bring messages of tolerance into the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Change The Equation – At Change The Equation you will find that STEM is their business.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Students created a computer program using free online coding platform Scratch to show their progress on a particular Common Core narrative writing standard. Social Studies / Current Events. Social Studies / Current Events.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Aligns to content area, instruction, and Common Core Next Generation Science Standards. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. Vicki: Wow!

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Elementary Common Core Mobility Maker Movement 118

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

At Elizabeth Forward, students study and create games in the Entertainment Technology Academy, a curriculum developed in partnership with the CMU Entertainment Technology Center. At South Fayette, students work with Schell Games to develop and test products, and provide feedback on new learning apps and games.

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Learning Common Core Meeting STEM 120

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War. That leaves just your typing.

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Wiki Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). Click the link for an example of Abraham Lincoln to align with study of the American Civil War or this one of the American Revolution.

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Wiki Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship 184

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

With their research assistant notebooks in hand, students could virtually conduct in-depth science investigations on archaeological field sites for the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU), study changes happening in the Uinta Mountains, and examine real dinosaur fossils from the world-renowned Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Common Core ELA writing standards encourage students to “use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.” The National Council for the Social Studies urges us to find ways for our kids to “take informed action” based on what they have learned.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Now a soon-to-be released study from Vanderbilt University demonstrates the impact of rigorous, peer reviewed research into curricular tools, in this case showing that students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Minecraft —Teaches kids how to code through play. This is how knowledge progresses.

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