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Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool

EdTech Magazine

The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . This is not the first challenge that Flores has presented his competitive engineering team.

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#FETC 2015 Recap

The Electric Educator

Here are my top take-aways from the 2015 conference: 1. The 2015 Keynotes included the COO of Makerbot, designers of one of the top 3D printers in schools today. Swivl is a rotating "robot" that follows you while capturing video and audio. FETC is a HUGE conference with lots of big names and big ideas.

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Top Blog Posts of January 2016

The CoolCatTeacher

The Cool Cat Teacher Blog From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Add to it a great month for Every Classroom Matters and all of you who share and reshare on Facebook and Twitter and you’re looking at more than a million educators reached through the network built around this blog.

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10 Inspiring Lessons From An Almost Analog Native … Back To School 2015

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is back to school time 2015 for many of us in the United States and beyond… welcome to the future! Please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill.

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Team 4443 Sock Monkeys Once Again!

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am a part of Team 4443: Sock Monkeys and we are a robotics team through the FTC. Robotics teams start the competition season by learning what that year’s challenge is; they then immediately get to work on designing and building a robot that is best suited to that year’s challenge. What does FTC stand for/mean?

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FETC 2023: Networking, Learning, and Celebrating Education

edWeb.net

She was attending MakerFaireNY in 2015 and needed to come up with a project. I had a chance to talk with Jason Innes, the Director of Curriculum, Training, and Management for KinderLab Robotics. KinderLab Robotics is dedicated to universal STEAM literacy. They are currently partnering with almost 1,000 schools. Full disclosure!

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Northrop Grumman Foundation’s Fab School Labs Contest is officially open for submissions! Win a dream STEM Lab.

Educational Technology Guy

The amount of support received from students, teachers and the communities by our 2015-2016 winners was overwhelming, and we look forward to rallying more communities during the 2016-2017 school year.” Follow me on Twitter and Google+. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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