Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 14, 2020

Karan Watson, STEM 4 Innovation Keynote Speaker. Recently, I attended the incredible STEM 4 Innovation Conference at Texas A&M University. I would definitely recommend this conference to any educator in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education. Below find my tweets of key ideas, examples, and resources.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students still enjoy creating physical storybooks, but now their stories can be preserved digitally forever with free web tools and apps. Tools and Apps for Creating Digital Storybooks. Elementari – Create a free class account for up to 30 students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In collaboration with Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—HCS is integrating a suite of award-winning, flexible digital resources into teaching and learning across the district’s elementary and middle schools.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

HP Teaching Fellows are part of Reinvent the Classroom , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft, and Intel. These educators create deep, meaningful learning experiences for their students that are personal and accessible , authentic and challenging , collaborative and connected , and inquisitive and reflective.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students still enjoy creating physical storybooks, but now their stories can be preserved digitally forever with free web tools and apps. Tools and Apps for Creating Digital Storybooks. Elementari – Create a free class account for up to 30 students.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Through this collaboration, educators in all 34 SMSD elementary schools have now joined their peers nationwide in integrating Discovery Education’s award-winning suite of flexible digital resources into science instruction. Mystery Science features ready-to-teach multimedia science and STEM lessons for K-5 students.?Each

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

Through this new collaboration, educators and students in 28 CPS elementary schools will receive access to a suite of Discovery Education’s award-winning digital learning resources. CPS educators and students districtwide will have access to this resource. into existing IT architecture is easier than ever.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Charlotte, NC — Tennessee’s Hardeman County Schools (HCS) today announced a new phase in its partnership with global edtech leader Discovery Education that is bringing new digital resources to students districtwide. Discovery Education Experience will now be available in all district elementary and middle school classrooms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2023

Nestled in the prairie of south-central Minnesota and serving students from the communities of Gibbon, Fairfax, Winthrop, and surrounding townships, GFW uses progressive technology applications to access educational resources from around the world. All GFW educators now also enjoy access to the Discovery Educator Network.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 23, 2018

Last summer, we highlighted Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) , a large suburban school district in Virginia that boosted their bandwidth speed from 2 to 20 Gbps to keep up with growing demands for digital learning. ” ESH: Before your upgrade, how did the level of Internet access impact teaching and learning?

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, March 3, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Women’s History Month observances nationwide.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

Last-minute decision-making is the new normal, as schools and districts vet a multiplicity of strategies and applications to support their reliance on digital learning in a pandemic. But access alone wasn’t enough. But access and vetting were only part of the equation. This was a critical first step.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Thirty-four elementary schools are contributing data to the district’s Project Daffodil, examining relationships between weather and plants.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Through this new collaboration, educators and students districtwide will receive access to a suite of Discovery Education’s award-winning digital learning resources. digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place.?? . PPS is a thriving, urban school division serving more than 13,300 students.

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techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

(April 19, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today it has added a variety of new digital assets to its award-winning supplemental and digital textbook services. s family of networks. and worldwide.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He is going to help us analyze the digital equity and inclusion problem to find better ways to provide a diverse and equitable educational experience. Shout out to all of my friends with Northside ISD in San Antonio, specifically at Thornton Elementary and Rudder Middle Schools. The same can be said of our STEM programs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Adoption of digital learning resources is taking hold in schools and districts across the United States. Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students and spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content, according to Education Week.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

VWSD consists of three high schools (grades 9 – 12), three middle schools (grades 7-8), ten elementary schools, and an alternative program. SDOC’s partnership with Discovery Education also provides all district teachers access to the Discovery Education Community. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Friday March 11, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, high quality digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Day nationwide. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This year’s STEMpath cohort learned a lot during their externships. STEMpath is a yearlong STEM and Computer Science certificate program, offering any K-12 educator 24-credit graduate level credits.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

–Immersive New Content Empowers Educators to Create Dynamic Digital Learning Environments for All Students – Silver Spring, Md. The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

At the same time, the report cites the urgent need to close the digital divide for 2.3 million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million teachers in more than 81,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 28, 2019

” However, Robin knew she had to find a way to improve her school division’s Internet access given the trouble they were having with their connectivity. Thanks to Robin’s collaborative efforts to upgrade Rappahannock’s network, her students and teachers now have more than enough bandwidth for their digital learning needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

The proposals included after-hours study groups for third graders to work with a qualified teacher or tutor to stem learning loss during the pandemic; an outdoor learning hub to reengage students who weren’t attending online classes; and an in-person small learning community with social and emotional supports for students suffering from trauma. “We

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 5, 2019

They also learned how to analyze the data output once the sensors returned home from the flight. A teaching team partnered with a 4th grade class from a nearby elementary school to teach them about the engineering process using our flight and parachutes as a platform for doing so. The Teaching Team. Encouraging Innovation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As the new school year begins, elementary school teachers are now able to access a new, free online artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to strengthen their math instruction and help students learn at higher levels.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

It dates back to 2008, when an educational journey began in Wyoming that revealed the important role technology plays in enhancing teaching and learning—especially in a rural state. Lachelle Brant) Creating Guidelines for Distance Education The Problem: Sometimes, the greatest solution stems from the greatest need.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. What are the one-, two-, and five-year goals for terms of digital learning? ? More than $28 million of the total improvement costs will likely be covered by state funding.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision to be that core mathematics curriculum because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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