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How Do We Get More Girls Into STEM? Build Confidence (and Robots)

Edsurge

With careers of the future heavily concentrated in STEM fields, it’s unacceptable for women to be left out of the space. Not only do employers need to have the largest possible pool of qualified STEM workers to succeed, business outcomes improve with a diverse workforce. Women make up half of the total U.S.

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FETC 2020: STEM, safety, and students

eSchool News

Student engagement and empowerment were evident at FETC 2020 in Miami, FL. FETC 2020 offered sessions and workshops, interactive spaces, an extensive expo hall, and purposefully-chosen dynamic, energizing, and inspiring keynote presentations. STEM and STEAM.

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How Humor and Storytelling Help Foster STEM Engagement

edWeb.net

While these types of projects can be fun in their own right, adding a story and humor to the lesson increases overall student engagement. Creating educational environments where students have emotional connections and vested in the lesson can be attained when adding storytelling elements to STEM projects.

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Building Sustainable STEAM labs – by Alvaro Brito

ViewSonic Education

These innovative spaces cultivate creativity and inspire students to explore the wonders of STEAM education by offering exciting learning possibilities for students, including: For instance, a Coding & Robotics class can involve students working in teams to design and program a robot to navigate a maze.

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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Carrie Willis, Technology Director for Valley Preparatory School and Strategic Outreach Manager for Wonder Workshop, and Caitlin Arakawa, Kindergarten Teacher at Valley Preparatory School, dispel these misconceptions, during a recent edWebinar. Nearpod is a powerful teaching and learning tool that promotes student engagement in the classroom.

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3 ways robots can help students tell stories

eSchool News

Though coding and robotics is new to almost all of the students coming into my workshops and classes, storytelling is something they’re familiar with. As the manager of educational programs for KID Museum in Maryland, I use narrative to help teach young students how to code and program robots.

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Part 2… 34 NCAA Basketball Lesson Plan Resources and Links … A PBL Series

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I will be at Alan November’s BLC19 in Boston (July) presenting workshops and sessions to support educators and students. Checkout my conference half day workshops : Making Makers Mainstream and Project Based Learning Quick Start. Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Check out my Booking Page.