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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

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Blending Art and Algorithms, Desmos Sets Out to Reimagine Math Curriculum

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It’s been impressive to see students create true masterpieces,” says Suzanne von Oy, a graphing specialist at Desmos, the company that organized the contest. Announced on March 6, the competition challenged students to create any artwork of their choice using the company’s online graphing calculator. Try high school students.

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How to Weave Advisory into Academics — Plus 10 Resources for Teaching SEL

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Being standards-based, we support CASEL’s SEL competencies and we encourage our teachers to track them in tandem with academic standards. Kiddom is just a one education technology company. Teachers need more education technology companies thoughtfully creating and providing SEL content and services.