EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. They work on any project they want, such as robotics. For its part, St.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

(Waltham, MA) August 28, 2018 – KinderLab Robotics today expanded its KIBO™ curriculum suite by introducing KIBO Activity Center Guidebook : Activities and Setup Recommendations for a KIBO Activity Center. This KIBO Activity Center Guidebook helps teachers create a robotics center.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2017

CS for All: Teaching CS in Elementary Schools SXSWedu 2017 Workshop As the Computer Science for All initiative jump starts around the world, more students in grades 6-12 have the opportunity to take computer science courses. Program Robot Mouse to navigate a map of your community. Agenda : bit.ly/CSforAllinElementary

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The post The Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide 2017 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The 2017 Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide has a little something for every educator on your list, and this list includes practical and affordable options as well as more expensive dream items. The Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide 2017! Ogio Newt Day Pack.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ellen Goodman Luckily for educators, there are ways to get tech tools into the classrooms that don’t involve panhandling. This is a process.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kids played with Legos, pranced around with stuffed animals and Salesforce mascots, munched on treats, painted using Sphero robots, tinkered with portable gaming devices, made race cars and dueled with robots. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 $2.7M $5M $6M $6M $7M. Painting with Sphero robots at today's event. . Of the $12.2

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve come along way since then, moving from traditional library programming into the 21st century, with coding and robotics to match. Robots in the library. Students creating robot art Along with my new online curriculum, I also wanted to give the students real world opportunities to use their coding skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. Her friends wanted to try robotics, so she tagged along. Walnut Creek Elementary (Wake County). Rollins Elementary (Vance County).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But last February, Ophelia received her first dose; she was excited about starting kindergarten at West Whitesburg Elementary School this fall. Auggie’s friends were okay, but Robinson Elementary School, where he was going to start fifth grade, was flooded. She entered kindergarten this year, but not at Whitesburg.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 9, 2016

to design a state-of-the-art science lab or classroom complete with all of the tools, resources and furnishings needed to incorporate new and innovative methods and subject matter. May 4, 2016 – The Northrop Grumman Foundation is welcoming submissions now through June 17, 2016 for the second year of its Fab School Labs online contest.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

I love walking into a classroom with Spheros in my hands. These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 1, 2017

The Fox River Radio Club (IL) set up a program to get amateur radio into their local elementary schools. The Dorothy Grant Elementary School in Fontana (CA) has an Amateur Radio Club for students in grades 4 and 5. This would be a great place to start to learn more about partnering with a radio club in your area to get started.

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techlearning

AUGUST 21, 2018

The School Librarian of the Year is selected by a panel of qualified judges, including the 2017 honoree Tamiko Brown, and recognizes K–12 library professionals for outstanding achievement and the exemplary use of 21st-century tools and services to engage children and teens toward fostering multiple literacies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

These little girls—in kindergarten through second grade—are learning everything they need to assume their rightful positions in the boardroom, classroom, lab, or wherever their futures might take them. . Sara brings a wealth of experience in a variety of classroom models to her work at Redbud. They are working across the U.S

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2016

Welcome to this third post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. Best of all writing will be involved for students at both the elementary and secondary level. Dupont Challenge – A STEM program promoting “What is Your Challenge?”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million as of 2017; the U.S. Combine this with guidance from teachers in the classroom, students will be able to comprehend various complex topics and concepts in a much better way. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. Related: Top 7 Innovations in K-12 Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The eighth grader can also remember each of the kids she began school with back at Boudreaux Canal Elementary School. The elementary she went to next, Upper Little Caillou, had replaced another nearby school that had shuttered for the same reasons a few years earlier. Credit: Photo: Sophie Kasakove for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Middle and high school students build VEX robots and program them using RobotC software. A course on cybersecurity will be added in 2017. As instructional technologist for the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina, she was being given a tour of a middle school class where the students were designing and building robots.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Some students find themselves in an alternative school because they have faced challenges outside the classroom that have contributed to learning gaps. I redesigned the entire curriculum from the ground up based on the data I had collected from diagnostic tests and ongoing classroom formal and informal assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning looks different in every classroom, but common features include letting students set their own goals, study the curriculum online at their own pace, or decide when to take tests. The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Venture Capital in 2017. Is this really a trend?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 18, 2017

hours each morning during Summer, 2017. Many of the discussions about and actions related to integrating maker education into educational environments center around the use of new technologies such computer components ( Raspberry Pis , Arduinos ), interactive robots for kids ( Dash and Dot , Ozobots , Spheros ), and 3D printers.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In the afternoon she accompanies the group of primarily African-American and Latino kids for the return trip, while many of their classmates at Rooftop School in the San Francisco Unified School District stay behind for after-school activities like French, guitar and “Lego robotics.”. It’s boring; it’s bumpy,” Bui says: “Traffic happens.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. Including, until recently, those in U-46. April Wells, U-46 gifted coordinator.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Google Classroom ? The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

After successfully piloting the Workbench solution during the 2017 - 2018 school year, the district is expanding the use of the Workbench Education platform to an additional seven of the district’s 21st Century Schools. Height Elementary, Forest Park High, Ft.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. Including, until recently, those in U-46. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two third-graders sat on the floor of their classroom and lined up a row of dominoes along the edge of a low-lying table. But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. Registration for the course began November 1, 2017.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When onboarding, Seage saw firsthand how teachers were under great stress as they struggled to create crucial engagement and ensure students weren’t feeling left behind in the classroom. The positive results in the classroom have led to other expansion opportunities across the CCHS campus. It’s really been incredible,” said Upchurch.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2019

SEATTLE — One frigid morning, on a playground outside a red-painted modular classroom, a preschooler with wispy blonde hair folded her arms across her chest and looked at the ground, the slightest pout forming on her face. The effort has been a success in the classroom as well as at the ballot. Brenda Iasevoli for The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

For example, Fran Wilson, one of the other judges, shared that second-graders in her classroom pointed out the subtraction at play in Baby Goes to Market without her prompting. The comical storyline and bright illustrations will engage early elementary schoolers as they practice advanced counting skills. 2017 Mathical prize winner.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. She’s also found it harder to engage with some of her elementary school students. It’s frustrating.”.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 21, 2017

Fast forward to 2017 and technology has opened up doors to do things that were once inconceivable. Teachers and students were trying things that they never tried before, from robotics to coding, to creating and communicating on a more global scale. I can be creative with the many amazing tools at my fingertips.

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