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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom. It starts with a game of Robot Turtles, a board game by Thinkfun that’s being used at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Ill., Within HWS and District 36’s other four schools, this is the first step of a journey that will touch on coding and robotics at each grade level.

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Here's What the ISTE Standards for Students Look Like in Five Projects

Edsurge

Connection to the standards: CIP connects to ISTE's Empowered Learner standard, which expects students to leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating learning goals. Studio A: Designing Creative K-12 Project-Based Learning. conduct mini-workshops and are available for “office hour” consultation.

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How Do We Know If Technology Is the Solution or the Problem?

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Through our direct interactions with educators and school leaders around the country working to implement effective personalized learning models in their schools and districts, we find that technology’s role in this arena is yet to be clearly defined on a broad scale. So, what role(s) should technology play in education?

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Click here to participate: The deadline to be considered for the award is.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

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In the marketplace: An NBA math program, coding tools, and a new literacy initiative

eSchool News

Results are out for a Boca Raton, Florida elementary school that is in its third year of a Demonstration Schools for Rigor initiative in partnership with Learning Sciences International. CodeSnaps teaches coding basics by enticing students to actively work together, hands-on, to control Sphero robots. Read more.

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How Middle School Obsessions Can Shape Career Paths.

Edsurge

Other students wanted to tackle creating worlds in Minecraft and figure out how to build their own robots and computers. From this discussion we learned that our students loved to create and they could make connections between what they were doing outside of school and subjects like English language arts, math and art.