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Top K–12 Tech Tools for Teaching STEM

EdTech Magazine

Top K–12 Tech Tools for Teaching STEM. Wed, 10/24/2018 - 13:49. As companies and market experts forecast computer science and engineering skills as crucial to the future workforce , K–12 schools have been rapidly developing STEM programs in order to prepare their students to be the employees of tomorrow. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces. Tue, 04/24/2018 - 08:13. Thomas School near Seattle has concentrated on beefing up the school’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for the past several years and plans to strengthen it even more in the future. jena.passut_7651. For its part, St.

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School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation

EdTech Magazine

School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation. Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:38. Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers.

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Vernier Software & Technology Announces Winners of  2018 Engineering Contest

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Vernier Software & Technology has announced the winners of its 2018 Vernier Engineering Contest, which recognizes science, engineering, and STEM teachers for their innovative use of Vernier sensors to teach students engineering concepts and practices. and Tate Rector of Beebe Junior High in Beebe, Ark.

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Vernier Software & Technology Wins a Tech & Learning ISTE 2018 Best of Show Award

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BEAVERTON, Oregon, July 16, 2018 — The newest sensor to join Vernier Software & Technology’s family of wireless sensors, Go Direct Sound , was named a winner of Tech & Learning ’s ISTE 2018 Best of Show Awards for showing the greatest promise in the classroom.

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Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool

EdTech Magazine

Fri, 11/30/2018 - 11:24. The future has swooped in early: We’re already seeing drones being added to the mix of teaching tools that educators are using to help bring STEM to life in their classrooms. Drone Competition Creates Fun STEM Opportunity. Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

Last year, Brandi Pitts’ kindergarten students were struggling with a software program meant to help them with math. Her school had received free software licenses through a state-funded project, but she’d initially missed the formal instruction on how to use the program because she was out sick. “A

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