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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent. The Tools 1.

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TEACHER VOICE: What if instead of the voucher battle, we gave all of the nation’s children a top STEM education

The Hechinger Report

Throw away the books and stop asking each teacher to individually “reinvent the wheel” by creating lesson plans from scratch. Getting STEM majors to become teachers has proven completely ineffective as a way to provide the number of new STEM teachers we need to close the gap in high school STEM access.

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OPINION: Is a new kind of online ‘resource room’ boosting morale for teachers?

The Hechinger Report

As an assistant principal at West Nassau High School in rural Florida, I’m continuously searching for ways to address this issue. I have witnessed how online curricula, such as Teachers Pay Teachers for Schools , have changed the minds of even the teachers most skeptical of online materials. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Programming sun and rain: Students run an indoor farm at school by computer or mobile app

The Hechinger Report

Green beans and other vegetables growing in the computer-controlled climate of a hydroponic farm in an old shipping container at Boston Latin School. who teaches a high school vocational course in hydroponics and aquaculture. Boston Latin has a cheaper, earlier version, paid for with a green-schools grant.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

Seated at folding tables and speaking through face masks, students at this STEM-focused charter high school tallied Covid-19 infection and death rates from one winter week — comparing national and statewide data with the virus’s toll at their school. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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US History Worksheets: Printable and Digital Activities for Kids

Students of History

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Alaska schools pay a price for the nation’s slowest internet, but change is coming

The Hechinger Report

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? That’s not a given in rural Alaska.