EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

“These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

In 2018, ISTE and General Motors launched a professional development course to train educators on how to use AI for teaching and learning. In his other class, an undergraduate course on data visualization, students worked together to create a basic web application using the platform R Shiny, a tool for building interactive web apps from code.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. ( Check out our first tip here!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

You do not need to get a master's degree or spend $10,000 on an online course. So, when I look at that, I think every elementary, middle and high school should have an esports team. . EDTECH: As an education technology consultant and speaker, what is your main message? Photo: Courtesy of Premiere Speaker's Bureau. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. 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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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It had only been a few weeks into the semester, and we had already sent dozens of students’ names to administrators to report this new version of plagiarism. Over the past year, we’ve been unlearning some of the restrictive practices of formulaic writing that students have been taught since elementary school.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

(Dallas, TX) June 20, 2018 — RoboKind , the creators of robots4autism and Milo , today introduced Jett , the coding and programming robot, along with the robots4STEM curriculum designed to teach all students, including those with disabilities, the skills they need to ignite a lasting interest in STEM.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. Of course, Redlands Unified isn't alone in their belief in the power of play. Building robots, sailboats and pulleys also helps students see how to apply their learning to real-world situations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Several largely overlooked reports, including from the Department of Defense, raise alarms about how Americans’ disdain for math is a threat to national security. It reports that there are now eight times as many college graduates in these disciplines in China and four times as many engineers in Russia than in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C. SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. Her friends wanted to try robotics, so she tagged along. Walnut Creek Elementary (Wake County). Rollins Elementary (Vance County).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

Ideally, Noguera said, kids would also have access to after school programming providing enrichment activities like art or robotics to balance out ramped-up instruction. All these interventions, of course, are dependent on funding. Ramp up rigor. The bottom line. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses. This fall, the first cohort of Dream Academy students will begin their junior year taking several courses at Brookdale Community College, before becoming full-time college students and completing their senior year on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders to a small, white robot called Sphero. This year, thanks to a donation from an MSU alumnus, they have expanded the residential camp to elementary school students.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

All eleven of the elementary schools are using the program. The recent NAEP Mathematics Assessment—the Nation’s Report Card—reveals dramatically low math scores and highlights the need to accelerate student learning to get students back on grade level. Ryan Christopher, Elementary Curriculum Coordinator, Waterloo Schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He first carried out this vision as an elementary and middle school teacher before later becoming the principal of a high school on the east side of Indianapolis. 00;03;53;23 – 00;04;16;21 Dan Fitzpatrick And teachers all over the world are reporting back right now that it's absolutely supercharged learning within their classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

Educators are divided into smaller peer learning groups (primary grades, elementary grades, middle school and high school), but also have opportunities to network and learn from all of the participants regardless of the grade-level they teach. Artists from various mediums (visual arts, improvisation, dance/movement, etc.)

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My Paperless Classroom

MAY 29, 2014

We are in our second year of a 1:2 iPad program in the middle school, this is our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and this is our last year of having 2 labs of PC''s for the students to use, next year we will only have one lab. I am happy to report that, much to my own surprise, the first challenge has been met.

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Hack Education

JULY 5, 2019

Over the course of the past few weeks, I’ve read a handful of books on writing and editing – Benjamin Dreyer’s Dreyer’s English , Stephen King’s On Writing , and Susan Bell’s The Artful Edit – but this week I turn my attention to revising the book. “You really know your elementary arithmetic.”

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MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

This story about career readiness was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. PLEASANT, S.C. On a recent weekday, J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

McGee, who took seven Advanced Placement (AP) courses during high school, found the experience immensely valuable, even though he plans to study neurology, not psychology, at prestigious Pomona College, in Claremont, California. North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 20, 2015

When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. This should not be seen as an insult or slur upon our value, but as a matter of course. If science is inquiry and inquiry is a fire, when does that fire start? Mokter Hossain, Michael G.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

As the program began to gain steam, we started to see our graduates connect meaningfully with local employers through these field trip experiences and internships, and we realized we were on a course to rethink our school district's purpose. We began to see our role as talent generator and economic engine to grow our small town.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

Just consider the constructs of grade levels, attendance and seat time, school days and class periods, final exams and grade reports, and standardized testing. Cynthia Day ( @msdayvt ) is an educator at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School in Vermont. Time is a powerful variable driving the operation of schools.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

And of course, only a small fraction of the world's teachers get the luxury of going to ISTE and seeing the expo. What's special : The idea behind MAP is to give teachers more time to offer individualized instruction and support to students, informed by reports that help identify for teachers what students need to reach proficiency.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We Reporting dashboards should become more student-focused. Reports in edtech products are often created for teachers or school leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But iUniversity Prep students routinely outperform the rest of Texas on state exams; recorded perfect attendance; and excelled in advanced academic courses. A robotics competition might draw iUniversity Prep students to Austin, for example, or a running club might gather for a race in Houston. Learning from Lockdown.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

And of course, only a small fraction of the world's teachers get the luxury of going to ISTE and seeing the expo. What's special: The idea behind MAP is to give teachers more time to offer individualized instruction and support to students, informed by reports that help identify for teachers what students need to reach proficiency.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

And of course, only a small fraction of the world's teachers get the luxury of going to ISTE and seeing the expo. What's special: The idea behind MAP is to give teachers more time to offer individualized instruction and support to students, informed by reports that help identify for teachers what students need to reach proficiency.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. Good teachers, of course, have always personalized lessons based on their students’ needs. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). “I Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Over the course of a week, camp-goers will roam the museum searching for ways to improve the exhibits, operations or architecture, and then design solutions they can prototype in the Fab Lab. Related: Wire those sensors! Save that turtle! Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

There was one answer I got more often than any other, particularly from the elementary teachers, and that is, a set of emergency sub plans. Kids are not robots who can be trained to behave the exact same way under any circumstance and under any type of leadership. Head Over Heels For Teaching.

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