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School Is Hard for Mobile Students. These Districts Want to Help.

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a mostly working-class suburban city just across the Mystic River from Boston—high student mobility used to be a challenge without a clear solution. Not all mobility is bad. She distinguishes between mobile students generally and students facing specific challenges, like housing instability. “We In Chelsea, Mass.—a

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S'Cool Tools of the Week: Refugee Libraries Toolkit, 21Teach

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21Teach : 21Teach is a directory app of STEM Open Educational Resources —games, apps, videos, and ebooks—that align to the Common Core State Standards and run on mobile devices. The app allows for K-12 teachers, students, and parents to find, bookmark, and rate mobile resources. 21Teach Freemium!

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Part 5… STEM Resource Series… Over 70 Stemtastic Sites

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to the second post of March and the fifth in a series of posts that will bring you over 70 STEM links. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. Part 4 A list that now supplies up to 40 STEM sites. Check out my Booking Page.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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The delivery platform is YouTube making them available from desktops or mobile devices and embeddable into LMSs, websites, or anywhere that takes embeds. It has become the largest STEM video library of its kind. Each video includes a rating by viewers to give an idea of how effective they are to those who watch them. History Channel.

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Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) Displays: A Maker Education Project

User Generated Education

See Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus for more about this. Common Core State Standards – ELA. The micro:bit features an embedded compass, accelerometer, mobile, and web-based programming capabilities.

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Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind

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To get started, I needed a mobile device (like an iPhone, Android phone, or an iPad–the latter is recommended), a Bluetooth connection, and a risk-takers mentality. kids who love fiddling with mobile devices. teachers looking for clever STEAM and STEM projects. That’s it! What I really like about Robo Wunderkind.

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How to use Sphero the Robot in STEM and Beyond – From Courtney Pepe

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Sphero emphasizes the power of play in education and has a variety of lessons that are aligned to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards on their website. Even if a student had challenges with their mobility, they were still able to paint with the robot by switching the app from joystick mode to tilt mode.