Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This is what we currently have in our lab now that we are 3 years into the program: Wonder Workshop Dash and Dot Robots. These are our "go to" robotics for elementary students. They work with 4 different apps- Wonder, Blockly, Go, Path.the various apps meet different levels of coding ability. Wonder Workshop Cue Robots.

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STEM Elementary Robotics Lenovo 62

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

When you think of tech in the classroom, everyone thinks of iPads and SMART boards,” he says. It turns out the disc-shaped vacuum cleaner, which uses sensors to autonomously zip around homes is also a great tool to teach students about robotics and empathy. It all started with his students’ obsession with robots.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2017

From kindergarten to grade 12, the vast assortment of digital offerings can meet any student’s interests, all while providing valuable lessons that will appropriately challenge each user. Osmo introduces children to hands-on play through the iPad. SPRK Lightning Lab combines virtual coding with robotics.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I set a virtual meeting schedule with my teammates, Matthew Blacker and Rasahn McCombs. And we all collaborated via Google Docs or Slides before and during the meetings. I want to incorporate tools and resources from Google Earth, Tinkercad, Code.org, ScratchJr and others to be used with Chromebooks and iPads.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.” She turned to the platform a few years ago when her principal wanted students to use iPads for a digital photography club. “A For the longest time teachers all wanted iPads just because they could.

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 15, 2014

I want them to write blogs and play with robots. We will explore a sequence of programming tools and platforms from cup stacking, to robots. This workshop will get participants programming in as many platforms as we have time for and will focus on iPad based programming instruction. We will likely start on today’s meet.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For example, say robots and drones will be the hot-ticket item of the year (according to a recent study – they will be ). Does it make sense for you to purchase robots and drones for your school when you already have interactive displays in your classrooms and laptops for each student? Department of Education.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 18, 2018

Until this parent shared not only his vision but created funding opportunities, I just dreamed about integrating coding, robotics, circuitry, etc into our curriculum- the funding just wasn't there. We are programming robots and concepts, making green screen productions and showing our elementary students how to make websites.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

The iPad displays a picture of a word, and students play a guessing game, Wheel of Fortune Style, where they place Scrabble tiles that can be read in front of the iPad. Game #4 – Sphero the Robot. They smile, laugh, and applaud as the iPad visually prompts them to shake the robot so it will change color over and over again.

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Robotics Gamification STEM iPad 60

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

As early as Monday morning, students posted photos of word problems asking how many oranges Mickey Mouse has left after Donald Duck absconded with some, and how quickly Spider-Man would meet Homer Simpson if Spidey started swinging from Manhattan at noon and Homer’s Springfield train left the same time going 70 miles per hour. Not this again.”

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 6, 2018

The biggest question I get after a workshop or training session is how did our iPad roll-out have so much success both in my classroom and for our school. Five years ago our 6th-grade team was asked to pilot a 1:1 iPad initiative. I was intrigued by its ability to control the iPads in the classroom and its already made lessons.

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Tools Robotics iPad Training 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

Below are the finest collection of stories you’ll never see on any other day, and which have been brewing in our heads over the course of 2018 in between too many cups of coffee, indecipherable email pitches, 1:1 meetings, product sprints and the occasional but unavoidable sparring on Twitter. Next up: the EduWand.

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Adam Welcome

AUGUST 15, 2015

Writing code - Robotics - STEM - Collaboration - Communication - Math - Problem solving - The list goes on About two hours after our meeting, a parent from PTA emailed me saying how stoked they were to learn about Sphero's , they went an ordered one on their own! We love this Sphero Mr. Welcome, it's awesome!"

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 21, 2017

Makerspaces play a great host to events such as parent coffee mornings, student conferences, parent teacher meetings, parent workshops and professional development session for educators. It is also quite rewarding to open the doors of your makerspace to fellow colleagues, parent community and other educators. How to design a makerspace?

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EdTechTeam

MAY 10, 2017

I feel proud that I get to teach a grown up” was a memorable comment made by a 3rd grade Tech Squad student when she taught a teacher how to code on the iPad using OSMO’s Awbie coding commands. The final step is the training: students meet with that motivated adult, test out the resources, and select the station they will present on.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

One of my Lego Robotics Teams, not relevant to the post, but cute I got to share the K-5 tech journey at my school with the school board last night. Sitting here on the other side of the meeting I can say uit went very well and I enjoyed sharing my work, but prepping was a little stressful. TD: "What does that do?" pedagogy'

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Serving at least 28 million students in more than 40,000 schools in every state and in more than 70 nations, the new organization represents a meeting of the minds and of complementary areas of skill and experience. Combined, ENA and CatchOn provide a rich portfolio of services to meet the demands of today’s digital schools.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 54

Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I came in one day and was told that during second semester almost a whole quarter’s worth of instruction would now happen with me rolling an iPad cart of 30 iPads from class to class when the lab was being used for testing throughout the year. I was excited about having options for instruction and learning more about mobile learning.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

Here a student shows off his robot that he built and programmed for the technology fair. gadoeteachertakeover #librariesofinstagram #makered #makerspace #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #robot #robotics #stem #steam #technology #coding #hourofcode #tlchat #proudtobeccsd. 3rd grade wrote their own folktales.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Teaming up with Skyview’s instructional technology facilitator and early-adopting teachers, Chun frequently demonstrates new tech tools at the school’s teacher-led professional development meetings. Often, she backs up these introductions by co-teaching a class or two. “It

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ACER SPIN 5 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Spin 5 is a convertible Windows notebook PC line with a variety of options to meet administrator, teacher, and student needs. Reflex uses fact families and delivers the right facts at the right time to each individual student, meeting students where there are. inch or 13.3-inch

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 11, 2019

Teens also find leadership roles through membership with a Teen Advisory Board that meets monthly to advise library staff on the collection, run programs for teens by teens, and fundraise. Teens learn how to code robots, fabricate their own designs, make healthy snacks, write stories, and complete service projects.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 17, 2014

. ** Digital Passport - An essential iPad app for kids that has them playing games to learn about Cyber Safety (i.e. A great iPad game for kids learning about Social and Emotional learning in safe 3D virtual environment. bullying, copy right, privacy, etc.). iPracticeMath - One of the best sites around w/ educational portal (i.e.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We offer tech summer camps at no charge for students, such as robotics and coding, starting at pre-K. We ended up not making it mandatory for parents to come to a meeting in order for their student to take a device home,” she said. “We But they believe the iPad would be the better device for self-contained special education classes. “We

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

During a district board meeting, Ms. For example, in one activity, she supercharges a regular lesson by having students record explanations of what they’ve learned on their iPads. Joey carefully tailored curriculum pathways to meet students’ needs.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 9, 2011

A west Texas child with an immune deficiency disorder can attend school and interact with his peers via a robot that represents him. Students with communication deficiencies can use iPad apps to communicate. We can''t meet these expectations with severe budget cuts. Negotiations will begin in earnest. There will be cuts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

CEO Rachael Gazdick says New York Edge concentrated on providing a vast range of activities — arts and sports, chess and robotics, cooking and career readiness. While Young led the small group of rising first graders through more practice with phonics, four other students were sitting at desks, playing a math game on their iPads.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Wednesday, October 22nd at 4pm ISTE Webinar: Global STEMpreneurs , Meet teenage scientists, inventors and designers who are passionate about innovative thinking and entrepreneurship during this interactive panel. More information. Five More Halloween Titles - Not So Scary This Time.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

CLEARONE COLLABORATE SPACE ( www.clearone.com ) ClearOne unveiled COLLABORATE Space, a video collaboration app that connects hundreds of users joining from any device, anytime, and anywhere, and includes messaging, calling, and meeting functions. Bubble Bot features a bubble-blowing robot or a Fan of Fortune, a prediction game.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 22, 2019

Project based hybrids, such as software to run a robot, science instruments, and calculators . Collect as much detail as possible including what platform the software resides on and all other details about it technically, as well as descriptive tags and any standards it meets academically or technically for easy use and sharing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. Being connected, as is required to get iPads and Chromebooks up and running, is assumed. million more students left to connect.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Also, this week, thanks to my invited participation in the National Governors Association regional summit, Meet the Threat: States Confront the Cyber Challenge , I published a new post “ How Should We Address the Cybersecurity Threats Facing K-12 Schools? Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. That's a lot of computers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So we took a look at our competition—video games, iPads, smartphones—and realized while students were happily spending time on their devices, we were giving them old fashioned paper-and-pencil activities. Instead of kicking students out, we lead meetings by letting kids know we believe in them. Students enjoy a celebratory pizza party.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets. KinderLab KIBO ( kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/ ) is a robot kit designed for young children aged 4–7 years old. In addition, KIBO also has a Marker Extension Set, enabling the KIBO robot to draw while moving.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2014

Friday, August 15th at 10am Google EdTechTeam Summit: Five Skills to Help You Discover, Use, and Share Great Digital Tools for Learning , As technology is integrated into classrooms, teachers need to know how to discover and use quality tools for learning, while meeting Common Core standards.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This is a myth that I see perpetuated at times by folks who I think are rightfully fed up with outdated boring teaching methods that just aren’t meeting kids’ needs. We’re just turning it into something that kids are doing on a SmartBoard, or on an iPad, or whatever.

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