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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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What is pedagogy? Understanding the foundations of effective teaching and learning

Hapara

Some examples of modeling include: An educator showing learners how to solve a math problem’s first step An educator including a video in a Hāpara Workspace about how to identify a fictional character’s motivation Discussion sentence stems posted on the classroom wall or in a Workspace A P.E.

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

Edsurge

Last August, littleBits acquired DIY , which offers a library of do-it-yourself maker projects and instructional videos, as well as an online community where kids can share their creations. Its kits include batteries, boards, blocks, circuits and other gadgets that children can assemble into different configurations and program.

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Age of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game

Edsurge

With several thousand activities in the form of narrated text, videos and challenges, the company says that game currently has enough content to engage children for hundreds of hours. Most of the content is aligned to state and national academic standards for grades 3 to 6, according to the company.

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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.

Even the transparency and apparent relevance of a classroom activity factor into the “value” of a learning experience as much as how cleanly that activity aligns with an academic standard. This all emphasizes the value of uncertainty in learning. Uncertainty. There is nothing wrong with being uncertain.