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How K–12 Classrooms Can Benefit from Robotics

EdTech Magazine

This is especially critical in K–12 environments as millennials age out of the school system and are replaced by Generation Z. Here, the goal is to combine kids’ need for active play with the development of social and STEM skills by adopting a comprehensive learning approach. The STEM Robots Revolution Hits K–12.

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New Report Shows the National Math and Science Initiative’s Long-Term Impact on Ensuring Equitable Access to STEM

eSchool News

In a report released today, data suggest that compared to the national average, students enrolled in NMSI-supported Advanced Placement® courses are more likely to further their education and earn STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) degrees. NMSI’s College Readiness Program is working to close the STEM gap for all students.

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Connecting Computer Science to Today's World

Tech Helpful

Recently I had the opportunity to talk with a STEM district leader and heard concerns about teaching both more and higher level computer science classes in their district. I think it is fair to say that many school systems are looking deeply at the scope and sequence of computer science for our students. How do we tap into this?

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base. Ed Venit, a manager at the education research firm EAB and an expert in student retention and success, said the massive disruption to the education system contributes to what he calls “unfinished K-12 learning.”

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Then of course, the curriculum is gamified, so they have different levels of challenges that they have to engage in — which are knowledge based — in order to learn the curriculum, but also succeed in the virtual world. We overloaded our system. So when you asks questions about what do the students get out of it?

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Is It Time To Go Back To Basics With Writing Instruction?

MindShift

I think what’s most counter-cultural, and not really in the knowledge base, is how to develop students at the level of the sentence and all the ramifications that has in terms of thinking and content,” Scharff Panero said. wrote below grade level and only 3 percent of U.S.

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70+ Engaging Debate Topics for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Engaging students in debates around various topics will not only enhance their rhetorical and speaking skills, but will also develop their research competencies and expand their knowledge base. STEM subjects are more important than other school subjects. Democracy is the only viable political system.