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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In They work on any project they want, such as robotics. The second floor is a highly configurable makerspace with the potential to cultivate abstract inventiveness. Content Subtype. CDW Segment.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

These sources often provide in-depth analyses, research findings, and articles on the latest trends in K-12 education. This approach encourages self-reflection, self-advocacy, and a sense of ownership over one’s education. Education Publications and Journals: Stay informed through reputable education publications and journals.

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3 Things to Remember When You Have a Gifted Child

Fractus Learning

While each gifted journey may be different, and the obstacles each gifted child and their family face can be simply inconvenient or tragically painful, there are three areas teachers and parents should remember when searching for answers to help better the educational, emotional and social lives of gifted children— advocacy, activities and mentors.

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How to Engage More Girls in Coding

EdNews Daily

Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy for the nonprofit group Girls Who Code , says the proportion of women in computing jobs has actually been trending downward over the last few decades. “If The Cyber Robotics Coding Competition began in New Hampshire in fall 2017, with 2,600 students taking part across the state.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. ” Here’s part of what I wrote in response to that article: “I am in this profession for kids,” these celebrity educators insist, not for money or fame. Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

Hack Education

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. I wrote about this company, along with its better known competitor ClassDojo, in an article in The Baffler.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools. are still available, along with additional reports to measure reading habits, word count, project involvement, news article consumption, and more.

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