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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., Schools Get Started in Robotics. District 36 started small with its robotics program. “We jena.passut_7651.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Top Blog Posts of January 2016

The CoolCatTeacher

January 2016 was an epic month here with a reach of over 200,000 views between this blog, my blogspot blog, and vickidavis.me. It is about you — the individual person who reads this blog and if you find what you read here to be helpful to you in your everyday classroom. — MAD-learn (@MADLearn) February 1, 2016.

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

Edsurge

The two-legged, pill-shaped robot—upper half green, lower half white and small enough to stand on one’s palm—starts its lesson with a greeting. Designed for children ages 3 to 7, the robot, Roybi, aims to teach kids at home a range of early-childhood developmental skills. Roybi the robot. Hello my friend. The black cat meows.

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Best-in-Category Awards for 2016

Ask a Tech Teacher

Weekly, we share favorite websites, apps, and pedagogy that make a difference in the classroom. Classroom Management Tool. Winner: C-STEM — tools to learn math through robotics ( see my review ). We hear from readers all the time about how much they rely on Ask a Tech Teacher for tech-in-ed resources.

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CES 2016: Lego’s New Classroom Robot Brings STEM Lessons to Life

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith Lego’s WeDo 2.0 has a knack for making students smile as they take their first steps into the world of programming.

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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Teachers do not need computer science degrees to engage, enhance and extend student coding experiences due to the abundance of easily accessible creative coding and robotics programs. Nearpod is a powerful teaching and learning tool that promotes student engagement in the classroom. Coding Software. Coding Activities.