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5 must-haves for school makerspaces

eSchool News

These days, school libraries often include makerspaces and librarians are becoming well-versed in the coding, robotics, engineering, and tinkering skills necessary to help students bring their ideas to fruition. Curriculum is developed in partnership with teachers to align with standards including ISTE, Common Core, and NGSS.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Library 2.014 - October 8th + 9th. We are gearing up for another amazing year of the Library 2.014 Conference.

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

Edsurge

Today, the robotic toymaker is following through by adding a big building block to its educational offerings. His company’s flagship offerings are robots that come pre-built with LED lights, sensors and motors that respond to light and gestures, and which kids can control via an app on a computer, smartphone or tablet.

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Check out… Robotical!

EdTech4Beginners

I’ve researched and tested a lot of EdTech tools and for me Marty the Robot is an integrated STEM solution that covers all bases. What you might not think is that children, even these days, are pretty traditional in their views of how a robot should look. Robotical’s quick-start guide explains the set-up process in clear, easy steps.

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Guest post: 15 EdTech Resources to Use in Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

The website gives you videos, images, and articles related to the questions and aligned with Common Core standards. International Children’s Digital Library. Who doesn’t like robots and cartoons that teach us something? Wonderopolis asks unexpected questions that will trigger the imagination of your students.

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Websites for Hour of Code by Grade

Ask a Tech Teacher

Kindergarten — Human Robot. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a Users create a recipe by choosing a trigger channel from IFTTT’s library, then a trigger, and finally an action channel. Grade-levels below are guidelines. Start young programmers by teaching sequencing.

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Discovering the “Ultimate Classroom”: A Student Led Project Based Learning Inquiry

EdTechTeam

With the Common Core, state testing, interventions, and all else that goes on in the elementary day, how would I find time for my students to investigate and inquire into their interests? While some studied robotics and social media, others dived into different learning disabilities and schools around the world.