eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

This new report reveals that Black students across the nation possess the aptitudes for in-demand STEM careers, but lack interest in pursuing them. This indicates that a significant career exposure gap exists, likely due to underrepresentation in STEM careers. ” said Cynthia Chapple, Founder and CEO of Black Girls Do STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Related: Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs. Yet for years, students like McGee had limited exposure to the world of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math. Like a good STEM student, Mann started by doing his own research project. The next step was adding STEM electives. “We

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Of all the skills that a person could have in today’s globalized world, few serve individuals – and the larger society – as well as knowing how to speak another language. I suspect this may stem from knowledge of the fact that English is widely spoken and studied throughout the world. Read the original article.

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2018

Some of our professional development workshops are geared toward a particular group of educators: those who teach K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM. We all use language,” one STEM teacher recognized, “whether it’s in the directions we give or the handouts we use.”. What Can we Do Right Now?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2020

Compared to students who entered four-year colleges and universities in 2008 and switched to two-year institutions at some point in their college careers, those who entered in 2011 were significantly more likely to make that switch only in the summer. The academic calendar is one of them.” The academic calendar is one of them.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

Zaina Siyed answered that question by creating the FemSTEM Robotics Scholarship Program , a free STEM program for Muslim girls aged 10 to 14. She hung flyers, started a Facebook page and approached mothers in her community—explaining the benefits of STEM education. How did you become interested in STEM learning and robotics?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

She says Rider’s program — which trains people from unconventional backgrounds for teaching science, technology, engineering, and math — taught her a lot more than how to teach math. I learned how to teach thinking,” she says. workers, at a time when ten of the top 14 fastest-growing industries require significant know-how in STEM.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Many of the skills weaved in above are becoming increasingly important to employers, especially those hiring in the STEM fields. For example, teaching students how to respect social nuances forms empathy and understanding, enabling better relationship building when working with diverse groups of people. Implement SEL School-wide.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. They were also the first Catholic school in the country accredited as a STEM school by AdvancED. What do lessons look like in your school now?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2017

He is the author of 3 books, The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning, The Tech-Savvy Administrator and Content Curation: How To Avoid Information Overload. He is also responsible in helping create #edchat, a weekly education discussion on Twitter that boasts over 500 weekly participants.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Led by Wendy Crocker-Roberge since 2011, Pyne Arts is already one of Lowell’s more progressive schools. The partnership with Acera builds on this work, expanding Pyne Arts’ project-based learning efforts, increasing their focus on STEM topics and leaning into the idea that school success is about more than just test scores.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Many of the skills weaved in above are becoming increasingly important to employers, especially those hiring in the STEM fields. For example, teaching students how to respect social nuances forms empathy and understanding, enabling better relationship building when working with diverse groups of people. Implement SEL School-wide.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2011

link] STEM/PBL COLLABORATION (Middle School Portal 2) Mon 31 Jan 07:00PM New York / Tue 1 Feb 12:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Feb 11:00AM Sydney Mary Henton. Incorporate STEM activities through project-based learning. How would you structure a short course in eportfolios? How can twitter be used effectively? Why use twitter?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The New York City-based language company, founded in 2011, offers 10 language classes along with courses in interior design, mixing cocktails and French culture. In an interview with EdSurge, Rohrbach explained how he sees the company as a way for people to keep enriching their lives. Last week, education startup Fluent City raised $2.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

Participants will learn how to use Audacity, to record, import and edit sound including filtering and export a sound file in different formats for classroom and web use. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. We will be increasing our online collaboration opportunities this year and our first meeting will be a small taste of how this can work. Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

How to help kids practice and give recognition for feedback. How to empower kids to be experts. In 2011, the Dow Jones News Fund honored Sackstein as a Special Recognition Adviser and 2012 Education Updated recognized her as an outstanding educator. Setting expectations. Feedback protocols. STARR: Yes and no.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

To detect and ultimately thwart the cyber criminals, who are masquerading as legitimate business owners, the Throckmortons must solve a series of increasingly difficult challenges beginning with figuring out how to log into one of the gang member’s social media accounts by cracking a password reset form. are filled by women.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

We’ll focus on apps that lend themselves to STEM as well as apps to facilitate integration across disciplines. EPA WaterSense and WasteWater Education will present a free hour seminar to introduce home school, elementary and high school teachers to the curriculum materials available from USEPA to promote March 14-20, 2011 "Fix A Leak Week!"

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But if your district doesn’t have funds burning a hole in its pocket, maybe instead you can provide access to an app for teachers to connect with STEM and robotics initiatives in the classroom. Prior to joining Promethean, Steve most recently held Executive Leadership roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2011.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

The issues from our 2011 Iowa, Did You Know? we utilized hands-on, engaging STEM activities more often in core math and science courses, not just in electives or extracurricular programs? Despite school mission statements about preparing ‘life long learners,’ students rarely have any meaningful agency. video still persist.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. It’s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 26, 2011

link] STEM FESTIVALS ( Host Your Own Webinar Series ) Tue 28 Jun 01:00PM New York / Tue 28 Jun 05:00PM GMT / Wed 29 Jun 03:00AM Sydney Mary Henton. Learn the basics of how to facilitate a progressive alternative to the middle school Science Fair-The STEM Festival!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

EdSurge talks to Garg about his new game, his favorite music videos, and how to make chemistry fun. How did it become a standing-room-only class? Last week, Garg and six of his students launched an app called Backside Attack ; it teaches basic concepts of organic chemistry and is available, free, at the App Store.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2011

Date : Thursday, April 28th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. We learned how to interact with our peers and function in a classroom setting by taking college courses. I launched UnCollege on January 21st, 2011.' Log in at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 1, 2011

This presentation provides educators with a framework that supports student learning communities around STEM concepts. Learn how to involve students in relevant, project-based learning with authentic audiences, nurture critical thinking, and facilitate the development of interpersonal and global communication skills.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 20, 2015

When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. However, with the need to develop more students ready to step into STEM careers, and the corresponding efforts to grow educational foundations in those area elementary science will play a pivotal role.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

One such effort is Black Girls Code , started in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer by training who has worked in biotech and pharmaceutical companies. I don’t think yet that—and maybe it’s to be expected—that anyone has all the answers on how to fix it, but we’re certainly talking about it. What still frustrates you?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Like, of course my kid knows how to do those things. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. I love how they had the fun and the quirkiness that could capture kids' attention. We're creating office hours.

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Learning Confluence

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Written and edited by Julie Lindsay, and published by the International Society for Technology in Education in 2016, The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching is for global educators and global education leaders who want to know how to take learning global. Global STEM Learners, Janice Mak.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In 2013, the Census Bureau reported that African Americans and Latino have consistently been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. In 2011, blacks made up 11 percent of the nation’s workforce but just 6 percent of Americans working in STEM, up from 2 percent in 1970. one girl shouted.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2011-12, the year before its agreement with the Obama administration’s Office for Civil Rights, Oakland logged 6,134 suspensions, according to state data. In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The gesture of making micro-grants to students was unheard of when Georgia State started the practice in 2011, but now other colleges have followed suit and run similar programs to keep students on track to graduation. Instead advisors armed with data help students figure out how to make their payments and stay in school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn. That’s $13.3

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

But the font spread after Boer won the Smart Future Minds Award in Amsterdam in 2011. The font also won first prize at the Smart Urban Stage in Amsterdam in 2011 and was a finalist for the Fast Company Innovate Through Design Award in 2012. “We do try very hard to make our product accessible to all different types of learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Some, like the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program , have been inordinately successful at guiding underrepresented students, including many young women, from middle school algebra through to a college degree in a STEM subject. Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

That seems to match overall results from the National Survey of Children’s Health, which includes a question for each household asking how many students ages 6 through 17 have ever been retained. A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent.

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