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The Future of STEM Education: 5 Innovative Ideas About to Break Through

Educational Technology Guy

The Future of STEM Education: 5 Innovative Ideas About to Break Through by Kate Began With our world becoming increasingly technology-driven, there is growing demand for workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. STEM education will only become more important moving forward.

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Game-Based Learning Is Changing How We Teach. Here's Why.

Edsurge

I have to do a lot of the same strategic thinking that I enjoyed doing in that game.” He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. “Now I run a 40-person ‘empire’ at Filament.

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6 Digital tools that encourage computational thinking

Neo LMS

Computational thinking is an innovative approach to teaching that redesigns the STEM and ELA curriculums on a new framework. This framework focuses on turning students from consumers to content creators through game-based learning and computational thinking (CT) skills while developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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CoderZ Names Tony Oran as Chief Executive Officer

eSchool News

CoderZ , the award-winning, gamified, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, has announced that Tony Oran is joining the company as its CEO in the USA. CoderZ is a STEM solution built to create educational impact. CoderZ League is a groundbreaking, international online robotics tournament. DERRY, N.H.

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Robots and Related Tech Play a Role in Advancing Curricula

EdTech Magazine

By Eric Walter Some experts look to AI and robotics as the teaching tools of the future.

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Robots That Teach: Using Sphero in Class

EdTech Magazine

By Sam Patterson The company that inspired Star Wars' BB-8 droid has already won the hearts and minds of K–12 students with a similar ball-shaped robot namedSphero.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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