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KinderLab Robotics Announces New KIBO Guidebook to Enhance STEAM Education

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(Waltham, MA) August 28, 2018 – KinderLab Robotics today expanded its KIBO™ curriculum suite by introducing KIBO Activity Center Guidebook : Activities and Setup Recommendations for a KIBO Activity Center. Each lesson includes facilitation suggestions, materials lists, center setup, and academic standards alignment.

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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. Today, the robotic toymaker is following through by adding a big building block to its educational offerings. When Sphero laid off 45 employees in early 2018, the Boulder, Co.-based

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What Do Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World? More Than Tech and Academics

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Louis, and was president of an educational foundation working for disengaged nontraditional students. Her book doesn’t dive into what academic curriculum is better, or whether or not kids need to learn to code. EdSurge connected with Krauss to ask her about her framework, and how it was shaped by her own educational journey.

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FETC Future of Educational Technology… Orlando Florida… Please Join Me!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Thanks for learning with me. I am excited about learning with thousands of other educators at this amazing conference. Inclusion & Special Education. Early Learning. The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. I have the URL’s below.

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

The Hechinger Report

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. If the history of education has taught us anything, it is that education is a human process.

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Why do we group students by manufacture date?

User Generated Education

Ken Robinson once famously said, “Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.” (Ken I have the privilege of working with 2nd through 6th graders in my gifted education classes and Kindergarten through 6th grade in my summer STEM and robotics camps.

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