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Global STEM Alliance is Encouraging Students to be a New Kind of Billionaire

Edsurge

The retort from the younger man (with his smartphone and hoodie): “When will you make something cool?”. If each student engages in a social impact action pledge and touches ten to a thousand people each, we will soon be at 1 billion people that we can influence for social good.”. GSA’s Junior Academy students.

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First Look—Discovery Education Back To School ’23

eSchool News

eSchool snuck a sneak peek with Lance Rougeux, Senior Vice President of Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Engagement, on some specifics. These experiences are accompanied by standards-aligned lessons, all available on Discovery Education Experience, smartphone app stores, and the Verizon Innovative Learning HQ.

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Top 10 Benefits of Using YouTube in the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

If you are a student or an instructor looking to reduce the cost of online education, YouTube may be a beneficial resource. Even the camera on your smartphone may help generate instructional movies, allowing you to avoid a significant amount of money while fulfilling your role as an instructor. To display laboratories and experiments.

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Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When Students Aren’t Using Them

Edsurge

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. EdSurge: I was struck by your point in your book that we are never away from our smartphones even when we try to put them away.

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Why the Convenience University Will Rule Higher Ed

Edsurge

A couple of decades ago, when I was dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small STEM college on the Hudson with a view of mid-Manhattan, we polled our digital students about why they chose to enroll as virtual learners. Wrap-around services make students feel they are very much part of the university.”

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Challenging the tried-and-true, to serve a younger generation of students

The Hechinger Report

Fried has introduced biochemistry to students of various ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses in schools and museums, finding that all of them happily grapple with the curriculum. While men tend to dominate STEM fields, girls are as interested in these lessons as boys, he said. Gen Z may walk through life glued to smartphones.

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N.C. recommends STEMscopes for state science adoption

eSchool News

We are honored that our solutions were selected to help educate North Carolina students develop a deeper understanding of the STEM subjects.”. It intends to foster student understanding of science through meaningful hands-on inquiry-based investigations, so they develop deeper understandings of the world around them.