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Discovery Education and Boeing Present a New Virtual Field Trip for Students Exploring STEM and Robotics in Aviation Manufacturing 

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ET and available on-demand, this virtual learning experience transports students to manufacturing centers in Renton, Wash., and Salt Lake City, Utah to meet the diverse mechatronics, robotics, and ergonomic engineers at Boeing. Portland, Ore., STEM is such a wide and interesting world full of diverse leaders and thinkers.

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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

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Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. It is not about putting a robot in front of your child and losing control over everything.

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Leading in Uncertain Times

A Principal's Reflections

Prior to COVID19, the vast amount of uncertainty in education lay in societal changes resulting from the 4th Industrial Revolution. A rapid evolution in artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced robotics should have served notice to anyone in the education space that things needed to change.

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Improving Student Outcomes Through Work-Based Learning Opportunities

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This is done in a variety of ways, including coding and robotics camps and the use of virtual reality headsets. The “Four Schools of” In the North Kansas City School District, there is a similar student population of over 21,000 and a similar progression of work-based learning opportunities and career exploration during high school.

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Empowering Teachers and Inspiring Students for a STEM-Driven Future

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Research has found that effective professional development is content-focused, incorporates active learning and supports collaboration. When teachers have this kind of professional learning that is relevant to their work and professional goals, they have improved job satisfaction. I wouldn’t have learned robotics.

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Can AI in Education Foster Human-Centric Learning?

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They developed a pollination device using robotics to pollinate flowers. How can educators prepare students for an evolving future influenced by artificial intelligence? For a pollination lesson, students used Teachable Machine to identify flowers that could be pollinated and created the engineering design.

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How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

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In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. Building robots, sailboats and pulleys also helps students see how to apply their learning to real-world situations. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated.

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