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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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The two-legged, pill-shaped robot—upper half green, lower half white and small enough to stand on one’s palm—starts its lesson with a greeting. Designed for children ages 3 to 7, the robot, Roybi, aims to teach kids at home a range of early-childhood developmental skills. Roybi the robot. Hello my friend. The black cat meows.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

The center’s first floor will provide flexible learning spaces, including a Skype room for video conferencing with outside experts, a quiet zone for research and a talking zone with soft furniture for group work and discussions. One spot will house tables where students can connect their tablets to a large video monitor.

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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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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

This includes video conferencing, learning management systems, and interactive content creation tools. This approach encourages self-reflection, self-advocacy, and a sense of ownership over one’s education. Robotics and Makerspaces: Robotics programs and makerspaces provide hands-on, experiential learning opportunities.

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?Forbes “30 Under 30” Education Leaders to Learn From in 2017

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Leandra Tejedor (25), cofounder of Vidcode , made the list for providing a coding curriculum that reaches students through social media videos (and has even partnered with Snapchat to teach users how to code their own filters).

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

In fact, the busier it is, the better—whether it’s kids experimenting with the Makey Makey circuitry or uploading designs to a 3D printer, or a class learning media literacy or a student seeking advice on a video she’s editing at one of the computer workstations. based education advocacy group. “It

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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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.