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How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

Edsurge

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. And right now, some district leaders and researchers say that's precisely what both students and teachers need. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated.

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25 digital tools and edtech resources from FETC

eSchool News

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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How to prepare students for 2017’s Hour of Code next week

eSchool News

Incorporating different STEM or STEAM activities into your exercises will help get all students engaged and on board with coding–which could help in getting support from parents. Get started coding using free apps such as Scratch and ScratchJr, which students can use to tell stories and create their own games.

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8 Approaches That Are Making a Difference in Public Education

Digital Promise

In late April, League educators joined researchers and other leaders in the education industry at the spring 2018 League meeting in Charlotte, NC, to talk about the challenges they face and develop ideas for solutions. Professional learning is embedded, protected, valued, and seen as ongoing. Why move to learner-centered models?

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Transforming Compton’s Schools into a STEAM Pipeline for Students

edWeb.net

While tech jobs were clearly the wave of the future, many students in Compton were not being exposed to STEAM programs, coding classes, and extracurricular activities such as robotics competitions. So, a decision was made to eliminate the opportunity gap for Compton students through a comprehensive PreK-12 approach.

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Keep Your Class Engaged Beyond the Hour of Code

edWeb.net

Incorporating different STEM or STEAM activities into your exercises will help get all students engaged and on board with coding. Get started with coding using free apps such as Scratch and ScratchJr, which students can use to tell stories and create their own games. Join the Community.

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Seven Things That Happen When Kids Embrace a Maker Mindset

The Principal of Change

We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. Some students will be engineers or artists or accountants. But no matter how diverse their industries will be, our students will all someday face a common reality. Isn’t that what we want for our students?