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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom. It starts with a game of Robot Turtles, a board game by Thinkfun that’s being used at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Ill., Within HWS and District 36’s other four schools, this is the first step of a journey that will touch on coding and robotics at each grade level.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

As a result, I was able to find some excellent research on not only programming (Ricketts) but the use of robotics (Elkin). After conversations, my administrator scheduled a tour of a local STEM Academy that has robotics in place. All of this directly results from what I learned in the course. You have a personal learning plan.

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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. I would love your feedback after reading this post.

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The Unexpected Benefit of Differentiation? Student Happiness

Edsurge

Her voice cracking with emotion, first-grade teacher Candy Mobley recalls the day in 2014 when her school district's one-to-one program launched. I learn a lot about each student. We do group projects and hands-on learning. I'm getting Blue-Bot robots this year, so we can do coding in first grade! I could have cried.

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Ed-Tech Agitprop

Hack Education

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Robots aren't coming for your jobs, but management may well be. Why do you? " A word, please.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.