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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S.

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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. The students will build out a maze and teach the Ozobot how to navigate it. I think we are witnessing how this is evolving over time. Original or Curated. Buying Cycle.

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Customer Focused.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.”

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OPINION: Kindergarten isn’t too early to educate at-risk children about Alzheimer’s

The Hechinger Report

When my colleagues found out that my husband, an elementary school teacher, had asked me to join his school for Career Day, they were incredulous. The model brain was a hit at Achievement Prep Academy career day in Washington, D.C. You’re going to talk to 7-year-olds about being an Alzheimer’s advocate?” one asked. I understood the suspicion.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. In 2014, Albemarle County students had the second highest SAT scores among 133 school divisions in Virginia in critical reading and the third highest SAT scores for writing and math. a nonprofit organization authorized by the U.S.