eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

From Stigmas to Selfies: The Power of Using Social Media in the Classroom. Break through the stigma surrounding social media and learn how you can utilize it to foster communication with parents, develop and model digital citizenship skills with students, and grow personally in your field as an educator. Get started here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Coding, robotics, and experimentation–integral pieces of STEM–give students the best start possible to the rest of their lives. To give you an example of the types of products offered by Ward’s Science, I evaluated two: Botley the Coding Robot. Botley the Coding Robot. Unbox Botley the Coding Robot.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2014

This message is then delivered by a polite robotic voice basically telling me that I can sleep in if I wish or spend the day slaving over my snow shovel. With all of the free social media tools we have at our fingertips today it is important that we leverage them in a variety of situations to get information out to our stakeholders.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. The way we access information and interact with each other is new. It was lonely looking around a robotics competition or math club and feeling like an outsider. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 17, 2019

Teachers do not need computer science degrees to engage, enhance and extend student coding experiences due to the abundance of easily accessible creative coding and robotics programs. Coding Activities. Coding can be an abstract concept and difficult for some students to comprehend.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you don’t have access to computers, don’t worry because there are several unplugged ways to get students to learn about the technology they use daily. Students can command a robot friend! Find more reasons to introduce students to coding in this article, Why Kids Should Learn To Code (And How To Get Them Started).

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2023, Sandbox AR was named was named Best XR/VR/AI Product as part of the  GESS Education Awards and was the winner of the first prize in the Hardware, AV, AR/AV, Robotics and Digital Device category at the BETT 2023 Awards. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

From Stigmas to Selfies: The Power of Using Social Media in the Classroom. Break through the stigma surrounding social media and learn how you can utilize it to foster communication with parents, develop and model digital citizenship skills with students, and grow personally in your field as an educator. Get started here.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Raised on quick responses from smartphones, social media, instant messaging and immediate-access entertainment sites, today’s students live in an on-demand world. With just one click, students can access the school's academic calendar, library or any one of dozens of other sites. A food delivering KiwiBot at UC Berkeley.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

They are training students to serve as cybersecurity experts and data scientists; to orchestrate teams of AI-enabled robotic chefs in commercial kitchens; or launch startups that use AI to transform healthcare delivery. Early classes involve coding and robotics and are taught using a project-based approach.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, a sizable portion of online news stories, especially those circulating on social media sites are fake news, false information, disinformation, misinformation, or downright propaganda. Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots , by Michael Rex "A hilarious, timely conversation about the differences between facts and opinions" 5.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

One of the great silver linings of COVID has been an increased focus on existing inequities and students’ social-emotional learning needs, and the critical importance of addressing both. We still see families concerned about the pitfalls of technology, especially social media.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

While it’s true that schools are increasing access to technology, the driving force is generally to support new types of learning—it’s not a race. Now, it's obvious when we look at extreme examples, but just take the case of social media and imagine a child who spends 15 minutes on Instagram.

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User Generated Education

JULY 8, 2017

This summer I am offering: Cardboard Creations , Circuit Crafts, Toy Making and Hacking, and Robotics and Coding. These technologies are seductive especially seeing all the press they get on social media, blogs, and Kickstarter. Each camp lasts a week. It is so easy it practically builds itself ( [link] ).

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. Achievements are touted on social media, changing the tone of the district’s story to engage the public positively. They trained volunteers to access Lexia’s reports and use the data to adjust direct instruction.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 7, 2015

Be accessible. When I am buying a robot, or signing up for a subscription app, I want to know that company will be available when I need help. (Yes, Are they in the social media space I am already in? Our robots passed each other in the mail and Sphero made sure I had robots for the last week of school.

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 29, 2017

Snapping, Gramming, and Scoping Your Way to Engagement- Shaelynn, Steven, and myself Educators Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) and Shaelynn Farnsworth (@shfarnsworth) created an interactive learning opportunity that challenged me in how to reach students, teachers, families, and constituencies with the use of social media.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 24, 2019

SCREAM stands for science, computing, robotics, engineering, artificial intelligence, and math. Dr. Curran explained that she and her son have a joint social media account. They use social media side by side so that when he turns 13 he will have the tools and guidance necessary to be successful. Is Culatta right?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. More social media platforms,” a girl said. If you told someone a decade ago that you could have a career as a social media influencer, they wouldn’t have believed you.”. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For 2019, our IT emphasis will be on cybersecurity and on high-availability, high-resiliency, high-speed wireless access to support 24 x 7 x 365 learning. I want to provide my students with opportunities to learn how to code using the Evo robots , which use a color coding language. Kennedy School, Connecticut. “I

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 27, 2018

Be accessible. When I am buying a robot, or signing up for a subscription app, I want to know that company will be available when I need help. (Yes, Are they in the social media space I am already in? Our robots passed each other in the mail and Sphero made sure I had robots for the last week of school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Not only does advanced reading still offer the best, most sophisticated access to information, it also offers a crucial way to develop our minds. It’s time we became a nation of readers so that more than 13 percent of us can access the numerous benefits that thousands of years of culture have entrusted to written words.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

It's not as powerful or robust as Midjourney or DALL·E , but it's accessible to students. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. And I think we've got a lot of lessons to learn from how we've kind of dealt with social media over the last ten years.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 14, 2024

Participants are encouraged to use #library2024 and #aiandlibraries on their social media posts about the event. Through her inspirational leadership, she has made it her mission to help underserved communities to ensure equitable access to technology, knowledge, and opportunity. OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL: Ray Pun, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Robot”-like hackers striving for the greater good to take down “The Man.” What’s even more shocking is the percentage of children that have access to technology without the proper safeguards in place, or even a starting place for understanding how to protect themselves online and why it’s crucial.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Coding & Robotics K-8 PLC, sponsored by Wonder Workshop , hosted the webinar, “ Beyond the Hour of Code: Implementation for All ,” on December 6th. It is now easier than ever to integrate coding into the classroom with curricula like those on Code.org, and learning tools like Wonder Workshop ’s robots Dot and Dash.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Though their talents, projects and backgrounds span wide, we’ve grouped them into several buckets to help you get to know the 2017 cohort: The Nonprofits Nonprofits again made up a hefty portion of the highlighted work being done to make education more accessible to all students. Shanyn Ronis (29), founder of Education Global Access Program.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Bezos then went on to cite a phrase that is so often misquoted and misattributed in those shiny, happy motivational PowerPoint slides – you know the ones – that people like to post to social media: “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” ” W.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

This group is gonna change the info access/experience for kids! The thing I love most about the Playground is the ability to access information in an informal way that lends itself to a more personalized experience. This year, I created an elective, Social Justice through Social Media. This is my team.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Students will see how TRI is using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics to develop smarter automated vehicles. To assist teachers, an educator guide for the Virtual Field Trip is available for download. The Ann Arbor Public Schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan are one of hundreds of school districts across the U.S.

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EdTechnocation.com

JANUARY 15, 2020

As an as online summit you can get access to the best global practices from your home, office or classroom. Recordings of the event are available for purchase (All-Access Pass) ! REGISTER HERE Get Your All-Access Pass! Get an all-access pass! Register now for the FREE Live Event. Get Your Ticket!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

.” Some of these attempt to stretch a contemporary high-tech vision of social emotional surveillance so it can map onto a strange vision of progressive education, overlooking no doubt how the history of progressive education has so often been intertwined with race science and eugenics. Don’t worry, teachers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2021

A video of Sam singing his co-written song, “ You Can Be ABCs ,” with his dad went viral on social media last fall. Teachers can access and share these digital resources with students anywhere they have Internet access. Suggestions are provided for how teachers can use these stories with their classrooms.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

She and her husband, Ken Goldberg , a professor in the field of robotics at the University of California, Berkeley, are very tech savvy. For instance, she thinks differently about social media. She realizes the social media feeds often make other people’s lives appear more exciting or glamorous.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

or, “You loved technology class so much, do you want to try robotics or coding?” It is also advantageous to organize each camp day with a laid-out schedule, assigned roles for time and record keepers, and accessible materials and visual aids. By minimizing these time-sucking tasks, students gain valuable quality creativity time.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2019

Libraries can and should be the epicenter of exploring, building and promoting these emerging techs, assuring the better futures and opportunities they offer are accessible to everyone. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.

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