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Don’t Rely on Cute Apps and Games to Teach Coding. Turn to Your Students Instead.

Edsurge

I hear the kids are going to make a robot move to the right, stop, and turn around. Today, K-12 coding education offerings often include edutainment: some brand’s robotic-design, game-design and app-design program, packaged as engaging, entertaining experiences for students. How cool is that? The reality: It’s not that cool.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony.

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Navigating the Roadmap to Employability: Preparing Students for the Future

edWeb.net

Leveraging existing resources, such as on-staff engineers or computer scientists, can lead to the formation of robotics clubs. Since 2002, CAE has developed performance-based and custom assessments that authentically measure students’ essential academic and career skills.

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

The report found that robots and other forms of automation will disproportionately impact black workers, who are more likely to hold jobs that are vulnerable to automation and to reside in geographic areas that are predicted to see a greater number of automation-related job losses. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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Acer Announces Alliance With Wonder Workshop

techlearning

Acer America today announced an alliance with Wonder Workshop to deliver STEAM bundles in the United States that teach K-8 students coding, robotics and computer science as part of their STEAM initiatives. Prices start at $895. Prices start at $1,200.

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

Do the robot dance for an exciting way to practice gross motor skills. Sociology of Education, 2002, 75(1), pp. If your classroom has tablets available, try TuneTrain —a free app that teaches children how to create music. These singing activities are all Zoom-compatible for distance learning classrooms. 10 Picture Books About Music.

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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

The Hechinger Report

Their visions represent a journey into cybersecurity and space travel, racism and robots. All four students say they think humanoid robots are “creepy.”) Noelani Velasco Polley, 10, imagines that robots will take over a lot of jobs and hopes to pick one in science or engineering that will be robot-proof and earn plenty of money.

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