User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2017

I absolutely love all of the new robotics toys that have been coming out for elementary age learners. ® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities. One of my gifted girls noted, “Where do all of these robots come from?”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Learning is more accessible because virtual robots do not require hardware, space, or other associated costs. Grounded in STEM, these exercises help kids develop computational thinking and technical ability, which improves their real-world problem-solving skills. Applications.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 15, 2020

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. Here are three examples of how elementary charters are continuing to provide instructional services to some of their youngest students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Good intentions to give all students access to the world’s knowledge were derailed by the cost of the websites and webtools that made that happen. Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Open Library.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2024

With students and educators each accessing 40+ tech tools each year, there’s a real risk of getting lost in the technology at the expense of developing critical soft skills like communication and collaboration. Christie Elementary in Plano, Texas has done a remarkable job of this.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 18, 2015

I’ve written here about using accessible tools such as Twine , Twine 2.0 , Inform 7 , and Inklewriter to create everything from games to interactive essays and digital humanities projects. Do you have a favorite exercise for getting students started with interactive storytelling? Share your tips in the comments. [

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Media literacy’s simplest definition is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.”[3] The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

As a blended learning coach, I often see students at the elementary level rotate through a station rotation lesson like the one pictured below. Although I appreciate the value of adaptive software, it is important to pair online practice with a metacognitive exercise.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, public health experts say kids need exercise more than ever. “PE Compounding these issues, many students around the country live in crowded apartments or in neighborhoods where it’s not safe to exercise outside. Related: How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 4, 2020

Bersani , a STEAM teacher at Blue Academy Elementary School, used the Codelicious computer science curriculum to teach her fourth-grade students how to write their initials in binary code using beads and bracelets. Unplugged activities introduce students to programming through exercises that can be done offline. For example, Ms.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Bersani , a STEAM teacher at Blue Academy Elementary School, used the Codelicious computer science curriculum to teach her fourth-grade students how to write their initials in binary code using beads and bracelets. Unplugged activities introduce students to programming through exercises that can be done offline. For example, Ms.

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Laptops Tablets Exercises Robotics 195

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2023

I have already reviewed and recommend these apps in several posts here in Educators Technology and today I am aggregating them all in a signle list so you can easily access them. The interactive exercises and instructional videos make learning dynamic and accessible. It’s great for any subject where memorization is key.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Math can be made accessible to all students using lessons that start at a low level and finish at a much higher level. A three-act task is a group exercise consisting of three videos or pictures. In part two, the exercise is repeated except half of the data is provided by the teacher and the other half by the students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problems these educators wrestle with daily are no longer merely academic exercises. Many lead K-12 programs and are grappling with issues such as technology access and equity, when and how to open schools safely, preparing teachers to instruct online and union demands for teacher safety. Public education will never be the same.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. The AI assistant might generate a series of fun, interactive exercises where the student is asked to arrange scrambled words into a coherent sentence or identify and correct errors in a given sentence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Most important, she sees how the tool fits with her instruction.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 31, 2019

I have the privilege of teaching my gifted elementary students for multiple years. Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal. Can be accessed at [link]. Here are the two Pi Kahoots I did with the students: Accessed at: [link]. Accessed at: [link].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary. Instructions are both written and audio, making them accessible to lots of learners.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. This practice — and mindset — must change.” She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, to become the best of the best, you need to take control of your health and do physical exercise to stay productive and in good spirits. Find a set of exercises on the Internet that you can do at home, don’t forget to do an elementary warm-up in front of the screen. Take care of your health and body.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Even better, this kind of “unplugged” approach to teaching computational thinking may be the path that will help us address a looming educational chasm: how to ensure equitable access to computer education across the globe. Using the subway map, teachers came up with a sequence of instructions (a.k.a.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

In a simulation exercise across nearly 100 large school districts, the academics were able to redraw elementary school boundaries to reduce racial segregation by 12 percent while cutting almost one minute off of students’ average commuting time. That’s nearly every district in the nation that has more than one elementary school.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Third grade language arts – “Native American Stories” This elementary digital textbook has ten 80-minute lessons, which can be broken up to fit shorter class sessions. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. Social studies and history digital textbooks.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Across town, but in the same school district, teacher Alicia Simba leads 13 students, all 4-year-olds, in a breathing exercise in her classroom. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. She wants to go home. The plan is that the $2.7

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

They say students need time to exercise, socialize and recharge. Assignments requiring online access have become ubiquitous over the last decade, and according to one Pew survey , close to one in five teenagers reported that unreliable access to a computer or internet connection interfered with their schoolwork even before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. Mostly state education agencies have spearheaded this charge in creating programming in areas that didn’t have access before, Grant says, adding that the local level paints a less encouraging picture.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Hack Education

APRIL 16, 2020

1962 was, of course, before the advent of the personal computer, but at Stanford, Suppes and his team had access to an IBM 7090 and a PDP-1, two mainframe computers. So that's where the students were sent, one at a time, to work on their math lessons — "drill and kill" type exercises.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Doug Worthen guided his small class of ninth graders at Middlesex School through an exercise designed to focus their attention. In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Instructions are both written and audio, making them accessible to lots of learners. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Living Wage Calculator.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. Morgan is concerned that increased technology use is displacing book reading.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 5, 2014

I often post assignments for either in-class exercises or vacation homework. They are not permitted to access or use those accounts during the school day. The sites are "social media" and serve the great function of connecting the community & helping to create transparent learning environments.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I try not to constantly filter or block my student’s Internet access, but it’s nice to have a program that can keep them focused if they get off task.”—Tom Until we found Workbench Programming Canvas , we were struggling with ways to help teachers access lessons that teach coding using Spheros and drones. Tom Gilbert, M.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. On Thursday, Piia Pehap, one of MIND’s Education Success Managers, got the honor of joining a session with several first graders from South Clearfield Elementary in Utah.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. A first grader works on a math exercise during a summer program aimed at improving math and reading outcomes.

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