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12 Tools to explore during Computer Science Week

Neo LMS

Read more: Getting started with STEM in your classroom! million jobs available by 2025 that require STEM skills which include coding. With this recognized need for coding and STEM skills, it is important to spark student curiosity which might create an interest in a future career. So why do students need to build these skills?

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How to use Sphero the Robot in STEM and Beyond – From Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

As someone who primarily taught math and science when I was a classroom teacher, I associated robots, robotics curriculum, and robot apps as things that were only used in those subjects. However, this past year my school received a robot grant that provided ten robots for us from the company Sphero.

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Help Kids Learn to Code with Dash and Dot from Wonder Workshop

The CoolCatTeacher

How kids can explore and create in STEM with ease From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We have 3d printing, robot making, and all kinds of building going on. These Wonder Workshop robots make it easy to learn to code in my STEM lab. Summer camps and robotics experiences.

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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. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

Edsurge

Following its March announcement, Apple’s Schoolwork app for iPad is now available for teachers. Osmo , which makes tangram-like puzzles that integrate with an iOS app, releases a new case and base station for iPads. STEM Education Works officially opened up shop during the conference.

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Top Tips for Cross-Curricular Coding

edWeb.net

Danhoff describes how a preschool teacher integrates coding and algorithms using Bee-Bots programmable robots to teach math and basic reading skills to three- and four-year-olds. A passionate techy, she loves working with educators to make STEM and technology more fun and physically active for kids! Join the Community.

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Game Education: It’s in Their DNA – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

empathy and role-play) bring authentic meaning to past events.”. The iPad displays a picture of a word, and students play a guessing game, Wheel of Fortune Style, where they place Scrabble tiles that can be read in front of the iPad. Game #4 – Sphero the Robot. The Delaware Hour from Matthew Farber on Vimeo.