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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

While the modified robot worked well in shallow waters, it hasn’t been able to take video or transmit readings from the lake’s bottom. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. STEM gives me challenges to think about. It’s more engaging.”.

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South Carolina adopts science video service

eSchool News

Supplementary STEM videos serve to engage students in science learning. Students in South Carolina will soon have access to short Twig Science and Tigtag Science videos through a new statewide partnership. The videos anchor a suite of online exercises, quizzes, and other media that support science teaching.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

Edsurge

The program’s fourth and latest cohort include: Caribu (Miami) allows any trusted adult to read and draw with children, through an interactive video-call, no matter how far apart. Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play.

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The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions

TeachThought - Learn better.

This is a tone that is becoming increasingly important in the 21st century as access to information increases, as the updating of information happens more naturally, and as blended and mobile learning environments become more common. Access to information is disrupting traditional processes and their related mechanisms. Uncertainty.

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IBM Foundation launches free online software to help K-5 teachers prepare math lessons and help students learn.

Educational Technology Guy

Teacher Advisor then dips into its library of 1,000+ videos and lesson plans, all based on national standards and vetted by top educators. It makes it easier to find lessons, standards, activities and much more and includes a lesson planning tool. Sign up takes 30 seconds. It is free and IBM promises it will always be free.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

Edsurge

Planet3 agreed to earth and life science curriculum with supplemental lesson plans and free 24-hour access to the platform for students, teachers and parents. Among those who tried include Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg and Kno, who launched Galxyz in 2014 to build a science video games for grades three to 12.

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Writing Is Still How We Communicate

TeachThought - Learn better.

But worried math and science (or STEM at large) teachers struggling to cover their own academic standards are missing the incredible learning potential that writing has. (Perhaps we could make ELA teachers teach Social Studies, and Science teachers teach Math and sufficiently confuse the situation once and for all.).