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In summer 2020, parents faced so many unknowns when it came to sending kids to school. Economist Emily Oster describes how she started collecting data nationwide to help parents decide for themselves.

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In conjunction with leading social impact partners, Discovery Education is offering engaging digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National STEM Day observances nationwide. Held annually on November 8th, National STEM Day unites communities in celebrating the importance of teaching science, technology, engineering, and math to students in grades K-12. Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place.

Explore hundreds of resources tailored to STEM teaching and learning wherever it takes place. Among the content are resources from educational initiatives created in collaboration with leading social impact partners, such as:

STEM Careers Coalition – Afterschool and Post-Secondary Resources
A coalition of industry partners – such as Caterpillar Foundation, ASME, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Boeing, American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, and Stanley Black & Decker – collaborates with Discovery Education to create a culture of STEM education in K-12 schools nationwide. By empowering educators to teach STEM effectively in the classroom and fostering equity and access to quality education, the STEM Careers Coalition is building the next generation of solution-seekers. Among the new resources now available to educators, parents, and families are a series of afterschool and post-secondary resources. Created in partnership with industry leaders, these resources further support teachers’ efforts to integrate STEM teaching and learning into instruction with ready-made activities featuring step-by-step educator guides suitable for the classroom, the remote environment, or wherever learning is taking place.

Dig Into Mining – Teacher Resources
Through Dig Into Mining – The Story of Copper, parents and teachers can access dynamic no-cost tools that are aligned to standards and designed to help students develop key STEM, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Students in grades 6-12 will explore how metals such as copper are used in everyday life.

3M Young Scientist Lab – Science at Home
Turn to simple, ready-to-use experiments from?the?3M?Young Scientist?Lab – a program from 3M and Discovery Education to foster a new generation of scientists who are inspired to improve the world with science. Challenge kids to?utilize common household items to reinforce core scientific principles.?From engineering with marshmallows to chemistry with baking soda, you can help inspire STEM solution seekers geared to change the world while also sharing a laugh.

Girls4Tech – Video Topic Series
Girls4Tech is Mastercard’s signature STEM program for middle and high school girls to inspire and excite girls to pursue STEM. Girls4Tech helps educators bring a fresh new perspective to critical real-world issues in cyber with hands-on interactives and empowering career profiles. The new Video Topic Series takes STEM from theory to practice, exploring issues like cybersecurity in everyday life and the ways that artificial intelligence can be used for social good.

Siemens STEM Day – Classroom Activities
Designed for students in grades K-12, these classroom activities from Siemens STEM Day – a program from Siemens and Discovery Education – bring science, technology, engineering, and math to life inside and outside the classroom. A new selection of 10 activities empowers students to discover key STEM topics like manufacturing, energy, and information technology.

“I love connecting my students to exciting STEM opportunities and activities that help them start thinking like solution seekers,” said Jodi Doster, a Science and Art Teacher in the Bristol Bay Borough School District of Alaska. “With content from Discovery Education and their social impact partners, I know I have access to high-quality and standards-aligned resources curated to their interests and learning styles.”

Discover even more digital resources on the STEM Careers channel in the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform. The STEM Careers channel features content including career profiles, student activations, classroom activities, virtual field trips, and more highlighting a wide range of fascinating STEM careers. Every month, Discovery Education adds hundreds of new resources—from ready-to-use activities to immersive videos and Virtual Field Trips to podcasts and curated channels. Each resource is culturally authentic, reflects the diversity of today’s world, and includes embedded supports, like closed captioning, text-to-speech, and language translations.

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The school has been asked by its accrediting body why it denied a request by three professors to serve as paid experts in a lawsuit against the state's controversial new elections law.

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Labor issues are making staples of school dining hard to find, triggering the worst supply chain headaches these institutions have faced in years. "It's like a ginormous hurricane," one official says.

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I recently had a chance to keynote Big Blue Button’s first-ever Global Conference. Afterward, I sat down (virtually) with Robert Hocking and we chatted about some deeper learning concepts that I had mentioned in my talk.

The half-hour video on ‘major shifts in education‘ is below. I hope that it’s useful to you. My favorite part is probably from 18:55 to 20:27 when we discuss struggling students who come alive when we provide them with a kind of different learning space.

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We believe in thanking our sources! This post was sourced from the following blog/website: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/30/1050782599/children-ages-5-to-11-are-a-step-closer-to-being-eligible-for-the-pfizer-vaccine

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Children ages 5-11 are a step closer to being eligible for the Pfizer COVID vaccine. It's a lower-dose formulation and expected to go to an advisory panel of the CDC next.

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Voters in Virginia will choose a new governor Tuesday. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is running for his seat again, while Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin is a first-time candidate.

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The pandemic has seen far fewer students go to college — that trend continued this fall, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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I’ve written on this blog before about irresponsible fearmongering when it comes to technology. It’s one thing to judiciously weigh the pros and cons when it comes to technology and our children. It’s a whole ‘nother to just throw claims out there that lack evidence.

In today’s New York Times article, Does Instagram harm girls? No one actually knows., Dr. Laurence Steinberg, Professor of Psychology at Temple University, said:

… there is a growing scientific literature on the links between social media use and adolescent mental health. But as yet it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions from it, in part because very few studies have the characteristics listed above. Of the better studies that have found a negative correlation between social media use and adolescent mental health, most have found extremely small effects – so small as to be trivial and dwarfed by other contributors to adolescent mental health [emphasis added].

 

Complicating matters further is that in the Facebook surveys, twice as many respondents reported that Instagram alleviated suicidal thinking than said it worsened it; three times as many said it made them feel less anxious than said it made them feel more so; and nearly five times as many reported that Instagram made them less sad than that it made them sadder.

 

We should be just as skeptical about correlational research that links social media use to reports of positive well-being as we are about research that reaches the opposite conclusion. But given the widespread eagerness to condemn social media it’s important to remember that it may benefit more adolescents than it hurts.

Facts matter. Truth matters. It may be that Instagram actually is more harmful to teenage girls than helpful. But until we have better evidence, let’s be careful before we make wide-ranging claims about youth and technology, okay?

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Thousands of teachers, nurses and other public servants are learning they could have some of their federal student loan debts erased months — and even years — earlier than expected.

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