Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

For many, study of the human body starts in second grade with an introduction to what’s inside that stretchy, durable skin that coats our bodies. use an avatar that has basically human parts (like a robot). Scholastic Study Jam: the Human Body. take a picture of themselves with the iPad camera (or another digital camera).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem. Third, know how to generate buy-in from schools. Individuals have belief systems. So do school districts.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject. science, social studies, and the fine and applied arts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My Here’s how to help them. Related: Violent beginnings: How to help preschoolers who witness violence and trauma.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

For the educators in our research, making was no one particular type of activity—whether programming robots or folding paper into shapes or inventing a solution to a common problem. And these educators in our focus groups were more likely than teachers of younger students to use technologies such as 3D printers and green screens.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” “Soon.”

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