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Increasing Engagement, Creativity, and Innovation with Minds-On/Hands-On Activities

User Generated Education

Learning Comes from Natural Consequences, Mistakes, and Successes – Because this type of learning elicits new information for the learners during each step of their learning process, each step provides them with data. Board Game Piece Board Game Piece New Tool Note Chute Robot. Puppet Making and Green Screen Recording.

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

As career opportunities in traditional professions and large public and private organizations, decline — think automation, AI and robots — young people need to assimilate skills that enable them to make the most of the opportunities and challenges in their own economic environments. Microlearning.

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‘Learn’-Launching the 2017 Edtech Conversation With Cautious Optimism

Edsurge

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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Part 2: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Technology

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

The activities introduce students to underlying STEM concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms, and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details we usually see with computers. NASA Robotic Lesson Plans – Some wonderful lesson ideas that cover all grade levels to engage students.

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No Begging Required: Teachers Share 5 Creative Ways to Fund Classroom Technology

Edsurge

As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.” Last year, the exchange raised $21,665, and according to data released by Reddit , reached 24,955 students. Teachers turning to DonorsChoose must be willing to gamble, however.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. Dangerous practices and products are normalized. Spoiler alert: nothing. So much innovation and “edsurgency.”

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As Factories Fade, Rural District Builds Makerspace to Fill Talent Gaps

Edsurge

Most of my students lack a personal computer at home or a phone with a consistent data plan—and when 40% of the district’s students are living in poverty, supporting students to envision an attainable career trajectory they can be passionate about requires a unique approach. Reframing that point of view feels risky, like a zero sum game.

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