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How to prepare students for 2017’s Hour of Code next week

eSchool News

Incorporating different STEM or STEAM activities into your exercises will help get all students engaged and on board with coding–which could help in getting support from parents. Get started coding using free apps such as Scratch and ScratchJr, which students can use to tell stories and create their own games.

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Technology Sparks Growth Mindset and Innovation in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS). Innovation in the classroom leads to student engagement.

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The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor

eSchool News

A STEM curriculum introduces students to real-world engineering. Berrien Springs Public Schools in rural Michigan started off with a modest enough goal: to add an engineering component to their curriculum in order to draw out-of-district students to their schools and to meet anticipated state standards. It makes kids think.”.

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8 Cool Tools You May Have Missed at ISTE 2017

Graphite Blog

This UK-based developer offers a student engagement platform with formative assessment tools like quizzes, interactive presentations, polls, and video discussion similar to Edpuzzle. Ziro : There's Sphero and Ozobot , and a host of other robotics tools out there. Love Nearpod or Socrative ? Take a look at Spiral.

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Maryland Educator Ali Schilpp Named 2018 School Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal

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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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Seven Things That Happen When Kids Embrace a Maker Mindset

The Principal of Change

We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. Isn’t that what we want for our students? They engage in iterative thinking: When students engage in rapid prototyping, they realize that mistakes are a part of the learning process. It changes lives.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Students engaged with an Acuitus training program that combines computer-based learning with human mentors to compress 10 years of experience and learning into 5 months.

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