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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. There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. And many former campers are now professional coders at top technology companies.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s a prime event to draw attention to black talent in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016. Related: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price.

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Navigating the Roadmap to Employability: Preparing Students for the Future

edWeb.net

He also noted the importance of programs like Odyssey of the Mind, Destination Imagination, and others, which develop students’ agency, teamwork, and technological skills. Leveraging existing resources, such as on-staff engineers or computer scientists, can lead to the formation of robotics clubs.

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

For a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) activity, try one of these Science of Sound experiments. Do the robot dance for an exciting way to practice gross motor skills. Sociology of Education, 2002, 75(1), pp. If you’re looking for a sensory activity that younger students will enjoy, make rainstick bottles.

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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. But while the technology necessary to move to Mars seems likely to be a net positive, these children aren’t interested in every new advancement. All four students say they think humanoid robots are “creepy.”) It’s not going to fix itself.

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Thursday - Paulo Blikstein from Stanford on Cutting-Edge Technologies for Inner-City Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is the director of Stanford''s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab and director of Stanford Makers'' Club and FabLab@School project. Paulo’s research focus on the confluence of expressive technologies for learning and critical pedagogy. degree from the MIT Media Lab (2002), where he was also a visiting scholar (2003).