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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021. Recently, I shared 21 Hot Topics for Teacher Professional Development for Summer 2021. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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SESI Kids Win Big! SESI Crixas TEAM from Brazil Are CoderZ League Champions in the Global Virtual Coding & Robotics Competition

eSchool News

Between October 2021 and January 2022, over 50 teams from across Brazil participated in the CoderZ League , an international virtual robotics competition. It’s like winning the World Cup, but for robotics! CoderZ is an online code-learning platform that uses 3D robotics to bring coding and STEM learning to life.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021. We are hopeful that, when the pandemic lifts, we can welcome a return to hands-on, collaborative, creative technology education in 2021. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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Slooh Launches New Grant to Help One Million Students Explore Space Using Its Robotic Telescopes

eSchool News

Washington Depot, Connecticut, August 19, 2021 – Slooh, the only organization offering live online telescope feeds of amazing astronomical events to students, is launching The Slooh Space Exploration Grant for the 2021-2022 school year.

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When a College Chatbot Breaks Up With You

Edsurge

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. To be clear, Oli is a robot. One saved Oli’s number in her phone as “Helpful Education Robot.”

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Vernier Software & Technology Recognizes Kansas Science Educator Tyson Vrbas with the 2021 Engineering Award

eSchool News

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. The company is committed to teachers and to developing creative ways to teach and learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) using hands-on science.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

From July through December 2021, I took Teaching Computer Science in Grades 6-12 from Advancement Courses for my three hours of college credit required by my certification organization. . As a result, I was able to find some excellent research on not only programming (Ricketts) but the use of robotics (Elkin). Course Background.

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