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Virginia Society for Technology in Education

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Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame

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Join VSTE, Virtual Virginia and Canvas to highlight all the great work teaching and learning being done in Virginia. This does not have to be something extraordinary. Sometimes, the ordinary is just what everyone needs to see and may be extraordinary for someone else. Canvas, VVA, and VSTE have all teamed up to promote these regional stories, and there are even prizes!

It’s super simple to submit a video and the wait is finally over. If you have a story, this should take you no longer than 20 minutes to record, create, and upload. StoryMedia has released their new version and CanvasLMS has been added. We’d love for you to take part in telling your “Canvas/Blended Learning Story” by downloading the latest version and start creating!

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Here are some great examples using this tool:

We will be giving away THREE (3) $25 Amazon Gift Cards to the TOP submissions by September 26, 2021. VSTE will be giving away one CONFERENCE registration per region as the Grand Prize.

To enter all you need to do is download the app, get creative, and share your video with eddie.small@instructure.com. The deadline for stories is October 4, 2021.

Big Deal Book, August 15th, 2021

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you carefully curated resources designed for K-12 educators. Grants, competitions, web-based and mobile resources and more. We select our favorites from each newsletter but be sure to scroll down and view the whole newsletter. And, since not all the Big Deal Book resources are time sensitive, we provide an archive for you to browse.

This newsletter will help you with  Culturally Relevant Assessment, Inclusive Instruction, Racial Literacy & More........

 

Game-Changing Integrated STEM

Explore Engineering and Computer Science Essentials™—a novel approach to teaching and learning engineering with computer science (CS) and computational thinking as a scaffolded, rigorous, NGSS-aligned curriculum for grades 1–5. Designed to supplement any core science program, Essentials helps meet newly adopted engineering and CS standards and prepares students to become the future workforce.

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App That Helps Students Dive into Black History Using AR

Movers & Shakers NYC has created the free mobile app Kinfolk that transports students to an augmented reality (AR) space where they can walk up to virtual “monuments” of 10 famous Black historical figures and learn their stories.
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From African Fractals to Adinka Computing—Culturally Situated STEM+C Activities

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Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) team is to improve education, justice, and equity through new STEM+C educational methods. By eliminating misconceptions about race and gender in STEM+C, engaging students, and aiding teachers, CSDTs can simultaneously be used to teach science, empower students, and change perspectives.
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Big Book Deal, August 15, 2021

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Big Deal Book, August 1st, 2021

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you carefully curated resources designed for K-12 educators. Grants, competitions, web-based and mobile resources and more. We select our favorites from each newsletter but be sure to scroll down and view the whole newsletter. And, since not all the Big Deal Book resources are time sensitive, we provide an archive for you to browse.

This newsletter will help you with   Hip-Hop Coding, Diversity and Inclusion, Digital Reflection & More......

 

NASA Career Development Program

NASA internships for high school (grades 9–12) and college-level students leverage NASA’s unique missions and programs to enhance and increase the capability, diversity, and size of the nation’s future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.
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Game Balancing Global Water Resources

Aquation: The Freshwater Access Game is a free iOS, Android, and web game offered by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Designed for students in upper elementary or middle school, the game teaches how clean water is distributed and what can be done to balance global water resources.
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Hip-Hop Music That Teaches Computer Science

CodeScty is an interactive learning experience designed to introduce young people to computational thinking and coding concepts through a cultural lens that they are familiar with. CodeScty’s tech-forward music education platform includes original hip-hop music, videos, and experiential learning activities to teach computer science principles and computational thinking to seventh- and eighth-grade students who are underrepresented in STE(A)M.
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Big Book Deal August 1st, 2021

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Apply for 2021 – 2022 VSTE Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Mentoring Program

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Since 2019, VSTE's Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Committee has sponsored a mentor program for pre-service and in-service educators to support increasing minority representation in instructional technology fields while helping build strong instructional technology pedagogy. Learn more about the program here.

An ideal mentor is currently working in instructional technology and has a desire to help break cultural barriers within instructional technology professional communities. Mentees are minority pre-service and in-service K-12 educators with an interest in instructional technology.

Mentors will help build the mentee's professional learning networks and connections, while also helping to increase the mentee's knowledge of educational technology. This mentorship program is for classroom teachers, instructional technology teachers, technology teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals who are committed to gain educational technology experience through a year-long mentorship program.

The interest survey is open now. Please consider applying to be a mentor or mentee.

The definition of minority educator for the purposes of this program are as follows:

Individuals that identify their race as African American/Black, Hispanic, Latinx, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiians, Multi-racial, Arab, etc.
Individuals that identify gender as Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, or Asexual+
Individuals that identify as non-able bodied

Please consider joining this effort as a mentor or mentee and passing the information along to others who would be interested.

Share Your Passion: Conference Call for Proposals Open

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Conference LogoSuper Early Bird registration is open now for the 2021 VSTE Annual Conference. The conference will be held December 5 - 7, 2021, at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, in Roanoke, Virginia. Virtual and face to face options are available. Seats are limited this year, and we will sell out.

The call for proposals is also open. Consider sharing your passion and expertise with other VSTE attendees by submitting a proposal. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2021.

Learn more at the VSTE Conference website.