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How Robotics Competitions Close the STEM Skills Gap and Build a Diverse Workforce

Edsurge

For nearly 30 years, the global non-profit FIRST has been getting kids hooked on science and technology through hands-on robotics competitions for grades K-12—complete with cheering crowds, adrenaline rushes and teams snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Robotics competitions have the same thrills and excitement every other sport has.

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This is What Powerful Learning Looks Like, Students Share Their Stories

Digital Promise

As part of the opening session, I wanted to show examples of what it looks like when students use technology in powerful ways. Zaina: The Saturday Robotics Teacher. Zaina splits the teams in groups to tackle the robots, coding, and the research needed to present salient arguments. How did she learn this?

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How Leveraging Curiosity May Keep Students Engaged From Afar

Edsurge

League, a robotics program created through an alliance between FIRST ? This newfound passion led Bongiorno to transition to teaching general technology in the classroom and, eventually, robotics. They shared it on our Facebook page and opened it up to all of our FIRST programs free of charge. Take cooking, for example.

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Computer Science Teachers Association Adds CoderZ’s Professional Development Program to Curated List of Quality Resources

eSchool News

Participants learn robotics and coding best practices as well as strategies to successfully leverage a graphic programming interface. Afterward, they receive ongoing support through a facilitated Facebook community, weekly virtual office hours and email and phone support to process inquiries. “We

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

Edsurge

One of the things that the Facebook group shared was MIT's new AI and CS community for educators. I also combined some resources to match what we were working on at school, for example, UN sustainable development goals , which we worked on in other projects in the STEM course. We don't have to build a robot.

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What should we teach students about the future of technology?

eSchool News

In looking at the future and how we interact with programmable devices, students need to understand both the positives and negatives surrounding the use of robotics and artificial intelligence to simplify human tasks. In essence, we are creating robots that can adapt to change in their environment and settings.

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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

The CoolCatTeacher

So I'll start with the little guys and then you can decide if we have time for another example. Kindergarten Students Learning Numbers But this was a class in kindergarten where kids were learning numbers and so they were learning to count from 1 to 3 and 1 to 5 and on up. So let's talk about your second example. I love that.