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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

Teachers can download a FREE K-12 standards-aligned lesson plan on car design that includes STEM concepts and art. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020.

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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

Although educational VR content is not yet at an advanced stage, limited mainly to younger learners, and mainly exploratory (think digital field trips to Versailles) in nature, there are encouraging signs that STEM subjects, particularly chemistry and biology, will attract developer attention. Google Cardboard. Second Life.

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

One of last year’s winners reported back, “I have been participating in the Speak Up survey ever since it started [in 2003]. After winning the $500 prize last year, I purchased an XYZ 3D printer to integrate STEM into my classroom. . Since 2003, more than 3.7 Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. Oh, and by the way, U.S.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. edtech startups.

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

EdTechTeacher

In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. STEM/STEAM. Justin hired an undergrad to research the role of STEM/STEAM to discover the promise. Shifts are happening in the labor market.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.). So many losses. “Soon.”