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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade. Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)

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Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. The integration of robots into day-to-day life.

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How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads

The Hechinger Report

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. Makenzie believes that since the world is constantly changing, she needs to know how to fix things, like cars with advanced electronic technology.

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OPINION: Career planning in middle school prepares students for better workforce choices

The Hechinger Report

While West-MEC provides career training programs to high school students, it also supports elementary school district members through innovative career literacy initiatives. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts. The camp introduced eighth graders to coding and avionics.

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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

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Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )! Learning to code is just one important aspect of computer science. For example, Ms.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2021

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One is that people are interested in how new technologies coming out might impact education. And we also looked at whether home robots could come to classrooms, and that one made the list as well. Should Robots Replace Teachers? Robots are having a moment—including the announcement this year of a new home robot by Amazon.

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How educators are using AI in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

In 2018, ISTE and General Motors launched a professional development course to train educators on how to use AI for teaching and learning. Once students had manually created the app, they had to figure out how to prompt an AI tool to duplicate it. Learning how to use this tool isn’t going to replace instructors.

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