The Discovery Education Science Techbook is a complete digital curricular resource that replaces traditional K-12 science textbooks and lowers district costs. It ignites curiosity and enhances learning via a powerful, simple-to-use program that helps teachers transition to the exciting world of digital resources. This Techbook is making a great impact on integrating 21st Century STEM [...]
I just read an article at Edudemic entitiled “20 Must-Have Educational Resources For All Teachers“. In this article, the author writes about the devices and web-resources that he feels are must have’s for education. In it, he challenges the readers to create their own list too. I agree with much of his list, but [...]
25 Free Resources from Discovery Education 1. New Teacher Survival Central – http://www.discoveryeducation.com/survival/index.cfm 2. Curiosity – explore and learn a variety of topics – http://curiosity.discovery.com/ 3. Clip Art Gallery – free clip art – http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/?pID=clipart 4. Energy Balance 101 – get and keep students healthy – http://energybalance101.com/ 5. The Road Ahead – energy lessons and [...]
I have always thought that games made an excellent learning tool when done right, with the right support by the teacher. Many video games teach students actual content knowledge, but most of them teach critical thinking and problem solving techniques. Research has shown that video games are effective as learning tools and many companies [...]
Discovery Education has a lot of great resources for educators, many free (over 30). They also have fee-based services such as DE Streaming with thousands of videos, audio files, images, lesson plans, and much more. One of their other resources that I have been using lately is the Discovery Education Science Techbook. The Discovery Education Science [...]
Last month, I wrote “10 Important Skills Students Need for the Future.” After reading a few articles about specific tech skills, I thought I write what I think are the 10 Important Tech Skills Students Need. 1. Internet Search - students need to know how to do a proper internet search, using search terms and modifiers. This [...]
STEM is a mindset, a way of thinking, and Patti Duncan says there are a lot of misconceptions of what STEM really is. STEM requires kids to think, be independent workers who can also collaborate, but skill sets are important and need to be learned in a relevant way. That way to integration within the [...]
Join us at the Apple Store in the West Towne Mall, Madison, WI on Saturday, February 18 at 8:00 a.m. to learn about how the iPad is being used in education. In addition, STEM information, the Discovery Mobile App., and a variety of other educational apps. will be shared. Discovery Education members are invited as we explore how the new iPad2, along with [...]
On Wed February 1, I ended my first big Digital Learning Day by joining in with Hall Davidson for a Siemens STEM Webinar :Making Mobile Media Meaningful in (and Beyond!) Your STEM Classroom. Hall Packed the hour full of so many great ideas using mobile devices to reach higher levels of analysis in the classroom [...]
Join us at the Apple Store in the West Towne Mall, Madison, WI on Saturday, February 18 at 8:00 a.m. to learn about how the iPad is being used in education. In addition, STEM integration ideas, the Discovery Mobile App., and a variety of other educational apps. will be shared. Discovery Education members are invited as we [...]
By David Andrade Apple made a big announcement last week about iBooks2 and digital textbooks. You can read my thoughts on it here. Some other teachers asked me what I use with my classes, since I don’t use a textbook. The textbooks we have are 20+ years old, hard to understand and not very [...]
Empower Students’ Creativity through a Variety of Web 2.0 tools resources and publishing. Back in the day when I was in school, I was sometimes assigned to conduct research in many classes, demonstrating my knowledge gained through giving a speech, (or presentation) in front of class, or writing an essay. There were not many choices [...]
By David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy The second annual Google Science Fair is open. Google started the science fair last year and it was a huge success. Students enter their projects and can win some really great prizes. The projects from last year were pretty impressive too. Students simply register online, get parental consent, do their project site online [...]
By David Andrade I created a permanent page at the top of my blog for STEM Resources. The page has resources for students and educators for science, technology, engineering and math organized by sub-topic. It obviously includes a lot of Discovery Resources. I decided to do this to collect these great resources in one [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy The future. What do our students really need to know and be able to do to succeed in future education and careers? Content is a part of what they need to know. Standardized tests test content knowledge and some skills. There are huge debates raging over standardized testing, curriculum, and the [...]
I have been on a pretty serious quest, analyzing a number of productivity, photo shop and publishing apps. In past Posts, I have featured Screen Chomp, Show Me and pic Collage. Honestly, I really try to stay as close to Free Apps as possible, but every so often I find one that is not free, but [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Be The Future is a STEM resource from the Science Channel, part of Discovery Communications, that provides information, resources, links, lesson resources, and more from a variety of sources, including Discovery Education. It is a new science initiative to help get students interested and engaged in science subjects and careers. There [...]
Kari Huttner has taken advantage of the great DE music featuring Dr Lodge McCammon’s content driven Jams containing powerful lyrics and melodies to charge students’ interest and improve their level of comprehension. Kari adds Green Screen fun with DE Video segments, reaching total tech integration! What a great way to demonstrate how we help young [...]
By David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy There is a big push for increasing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in all classes and grade levels. As a science teacher and engineer, I agree that STEM topics are important to our students and our society. The Dayton Ohio Regional STEM Center is a great resource for teachers who teach STEM [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Discovery Education has a huge amount of great resources for educators, from videos to lesson plans to e-textbooks and more. Some of it is in Flash, so you can’t access it directly on your iOS device browser. However, iSwifter has partnered with Discovery Education to create Rover. Rover is an iPad [...]
Although I teach honors algebra 2 as well as a low functioning Essential 1 freshman math class, I am striving to integrate iPads effectively in many ways beyond learning games for practicing computation and mathematical reasoning. IPads can be used effectively to remediate, extend concepts to STEM, and Publish. All of my students have access to using [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Molecular Workbench is a free and open source system that provides visual, interactive simulations for science. The simulations are in lesson format, with embedded assessments and the ability to change variables and see what happens. There are hundreds of free simulations in physics, chemistry, biology, biotech and nanotech. Some are [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Engineering is a passion of mine. I have a BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering-Aerospace, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and worked for 10 years as an engineer before making a career change to education. I still do some engineering consulting work also. I use engineering concepts and ideas in my physics class, [...]
By David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Engineering is a passion of mine. I have a BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering-Aerospace, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and worked for 10 years as an engineer before making a career change to education. I still do some engineering consulting work also. I use engineering concepts and ideas in my physics class, encourage [...]
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is a term that has become more and more popular lately as the federal government is pushing for improvements in student performance in these areas. The United States needs more students to enter these fields and, in general, the public needs to be [...]
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