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Improving Student Outcomes Through Work-Based Learning Opportunities

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To help all students, including those with special needs, achieve one of those four goals, the district starts providing a variety of E-related opportunities in elementary school and continues them through high school. This is done in a variety of ways, including coding and robotics camps and the use of virtual reality headsets.

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Can AI in Education Foster Human-Centric Learning?

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She taught machine learning to young students through understanding the characteristics of animals. It is one of many activities from ISTE-GM AI Explorations Hands-on Guides for Elementary Teachers. They developed a pollination device using robotics to pollinate flowers.

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How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

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In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. Building robots, sailboats and pulleys also helps students see how to apply their learning to real-world situations. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated.

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AI in the Classroom — Educators Share Their Personal Challenges and Successes

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Through professional learning opportunities for educators, the program is designed to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s AI careers. Recently, we spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms. We don't have to build a robot.

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Transforming Compton’s Schools into a STEAM Pipeline for Students

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While tech jobs were clearly the wave of the future, many students in Compton were not being exposed to STEAM programs, coding classes, and extracurricular activities such as robotics competitions. So, a decision was made to eliminate the opportunity gap for Compton students through a comprehensive PreK-12 approach. About the Presenters.

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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019

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From the experiences we provide (iPads, cutting-edge digital library, nationally-ranked Robotics program) to the inter-district professional learning we support (top-ranked VrainWaves podcast), at the core of our program is a belief in technology as a catalyst for learning at all levels. About the Learning Counsel.

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How STEAM Camps Can Combat Summer Brain Drain

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According to Erin Mulcahy, Senior Product Strategy Lead of Education at littleBits, during an edWebinar hosted by edWeb.net summer brain drain has a significant impact on elementary-aged students as the two-thirds of the achievement gap between lower and higher income 9th graders can be explained by summer learning loss.