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What Is Your Why?: The Importance of Computer Science Education

Digital Promise

VPS students have access to diverse courses such as coding, Python, robotics, and electronic applications, to name a few. Elizabeth Forward, for example, implemented middle school-level robotics to engage students in maker learning and activate their imaginations before they begin advanced computer science coursework in high school.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

NAGC’s mission is to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research. The team at STEM Minds have developed a series of micro-credentials that validate skills relating to video game design, coding, robotics, and digital art and media.*.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

techlearning

He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves. As girls who built robots, LED bracelets and tote bags, mobile apps, and websites said, “This is so much cooler than we thought.” Amesse Elementary.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

based education advocacy group. “It After everybody chose a symbol, she introduced the students to options for their presentations, such as creating a mini-blog or using digital presentation tool called Wixie that allows students to weave together text, images and their own voice.

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Happy World Read Aloud Day 2015: Connecting Through Stories Part 3

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Eli showed a lego mindstorm robot that he put together right before the Skype. Louisa and Ansley showed off their blogs about how to use Tinkercad to 3d design. It was fun to see the messages of the book come through in their sharing. Most students did not have a complete product and most had plenty of failures during the process.

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Taking Over Georgia Department of Education Instagram: A Lesson in Trust

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Here a student shows off his robot that he built and programmed for the technology fair. gadoeteachertakeover #librariesofinstagram #makered #makerspace #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #robot #robotics #stem #steam #technology #coding #hourofcode #tlchat #proudtobeccsd.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. For a quick overview of some of the other stories from other countries, you can read more on the 2017trends.hackeducation.com blog.). Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million. Changingedu (tutoring) – $55 million.

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