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12 Tools to explore during Computer Science Week

Neo LMS

Read more: Getting started with STEM in your classroom! million jobs available by 2025 that require STEM skills which include coding. With this recognized need for coding and STEM skills, it is important to spark student curiosity which might create an interest in a future career. So why do students need to build these skills?

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Grit, Tenacity, Inclusion — Robotics Programs Teach Much More Than STEM Concepts

Edsurge

Growing increasingly interested in robotics, Kate and her sister tagged along to team meetings and were invited by the older students to join in the build. We had a chat with Kate about her views on STEM education, supporting underrepresented and underserved students, and how learning to fail helps all kids succeed.

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Remaking Learning: Today’s Crisis and Tomorrow’s Promise

Digital Promise

They’ve particularly focused on those at the margins: learners in poverty; learners of color; learners in rural areas; girls involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math); and learners with exceptionalities. That network, counting more than 500 schools and organizations, has proved critical in addressing the current crisis.

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Summer Reading Online

Ask a Tech Teacher

By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress.

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Teen Genius Says “I Learned Nothing from Lecture”

The CoolCatTeacher

Gitanjali Rao talks about her learning journey on episode 556 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

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By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress.

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10 Great Virtual Reality Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

It is crowd-sourced and sorted by tag, name, Panorama title, location, brief description, link, with a cell where teachers can note any additional required materials. Topics might include languages, literature, social science, STEM, coding, makerspaces, and arts. They can also be embedded into a website, blog or social media.