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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

Edsurge

“Things don’t usually explode in Biology,” chimes another goggle-wearing student with long blond hair to my left. Back in 2012, we didn’t have an autoclave, so we were crushing bouillon cubes to make microbacteria media and being creative with microwaves, and it worked. Instead, their students do lots of hands-on work.

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STEAM Learning in Action

EdNews Daily

The need for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is critical, especially because there will be more than 3 million job openings in STEM-related fields by 2018. But administrators and policy makers now recognize the benefits of integrating arts education into STEM subjects. About STEAM.

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Are gifted students now an underserved population?

eSchool News

He is the program director and co-founder of Pioneer Academics , which identifies and empowers high-achieving students with university professors so they can take part in challenging and creative research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines while still in high school.

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

Forget telling students about the results of scientific study. Active learning is paramount to maximizing STEM learning. Interactive touch screen displays bring STEM subjects to life. Students can conduct labs and experiments at the display. They captivate, improve attention span and boost student engagement.

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Bringing STEAM to Your District or School

eSchool News

How do educators prepare students for jobs that don’t even exist yet? Now more than ever, it is important that students engage in STEAM learning in order to be ready for what is around the corner. STEAM – adding Arts to STEM – provides a full 360-degree approach to 21 st -century learning. About the Event.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Some learning engineers believe they can help students reach mastery of complex subject matter as much as 10 times faster than with traditional approaches. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

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Web Platform Seeks to Give Students an Alternative to the ‘Wall of Text’

Wired Campus

It’s difficult to keep students engaged — and awake — when assigning them readings from long and often dull textbooks. The idea is that professors can use zyBooks instead of traditional textbooks in order to help students engage with the material and perform better. Two researchers wanted to change that.

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