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Robot Maker Wonder Workshop Raises a $20M Series B to Expand Internationally

Edsurge

The company’s flagship products are two round blue robots aimed at introducing students six to 12 to computational thinking. Students use an iOS or Android app to code commands for the robots. The numbers speak to rapid growth: Wonder Workshop founder and CEO Vikas Gupta said that no schools were using Dash and Dot in early 2015.

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EXCLUSIVE: They’re here–robots are teaching your children

eSchool News

Unbeknownst to parents, all first-grade classes in a suburban Los Angeles elementary school were successfully taught by teacher robots during the 2015-2016 school year. “I wanted to see if they could teach real students, because we’ve seen robots help children with social-emotional learning.”

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Celebrating a School-Wide Commitment to Powerful Learning

Digital Promise

Over the next several months, their profile page will document their journey and include virtual tours using 360° videos of classroom instruction. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. Learn From the 2019 HP Spotlight School.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. gross domestic product by 2015. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. It calculated that had the U.S.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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As girls who built robots, LED bracelets and tote bags, mobile apps, and websites said, “This is so much cooler than we thought.” ChickTech April 2018 Robotics Workshop held by CJ Reynolds, Grades 9–12. His students are creating videos documenting their work to share with students on the island. the human heart and the atom).

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. The robot learner would be delighted to have you say, ‘Okay, you made three errors in problem number one,’ and being a robot learner, they’d be able to take out those bugs and do better the next time.

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Oklahoma district boasts ‘best in state’ STEM innovation labs

eSchool News

The Bartlesville High School and Madison Middle School labs were completed in late 2015 and the Central Middle School lab is scheduled to be completed in August 2016. Workroom contains eight student workbenches with vices, demonstration bench, mobile instructor station with computer, document camera and ceiling projector.

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