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5 Strategies to Help Superintendents Lead Digital Transformation

EdTech Magazine

Creating dedicated time for professional development is essential, said Schuler. . “We We have 45 minutes every Thursday morning for sacred, professional learning community time,” he said. . Gaines described how Mehlville School District students use robotics to solve problems.

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

Dangerously Irrelevant

I did all of this twice, the first week with elementary educators and the second week with secondary teachers (so 8 days total). I also showed and discussed multiple, concrete, age-specific examples with each group to illustrate how we can redesign instruction for higher student engagement, even during blended or online learning.

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Navigating the Roadmap to Employability: Preparing Students for the Future

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Leveraging existing resources, such as on-staff engineers or computer scientists, can lead to the formation of robotics clubs. This approach isn’t content specific but can be adapted to subject-matter examples. Entrepreneurship and economics programs, like NFTE and Economics Arkansas, help students explore potential career paths.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.

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

Edsurge

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. For example, ScratchJr is one thing I want to do in the maker space.

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Reinvigorate Creativity and Confidence with STEAM

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For example, in computer science, people need to decompose problems and think algorithmically. Most important is that whether pre-boxed or drawn from classroom stores, materials of all sorts bring play and creativity to student learning. By the end of sixth grade, they begin to build and program robots. Join the Community.

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Building Coding Skills Through Playful Learning

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For example, the teacher might establish that a green block stands for raising hands, a yellow block stands for touching toes, and a red block means freeze. Then the blocks can be arranged in different sequences, determining what that the students do when, while also providing them with opportunities for kinesthetic learning.