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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Today, step into any of Duquesne Elementary’s shared learning spaces and you will see students immersed in hands-on design work.

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

eSchool News

This virtual field trip is part of FUTURE U , an award-winning program that provides standards-aligned, hands-on, experiential learning resources that ignite excitement and inspire students to become tomorrow’s innovators. and Salt Lake City, Utah to meet the diverse mechatronics, robotics, and ergonomic engineers at Boeing.

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Can AI in Education Foster Human-Centric Learning?

Edsurge

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Stacy George. Gerstein: I taught machine learning activities to the students with ISTE standards using Google's Teachable Machine as the tool.

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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

Edsurge

Michelle Kang, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a professional membership organization that promotes high quality early learning for all children, noted that AI can save educators time by helping them write weekly newsletters to families.

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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. Jenny Nash, explains, "playful learning brings fun and enjoyment to learning for students, but it’s also about the educational standards. They're also coding, measuring and problem-solving.

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Integrating Coding and Robotics into the Classroom

edWeb.net

Coding and robotics programs in classrooms reflect how integral technology is in our lives. In a recent edWebinar , Kalthoff and Bartel explain that they want to coach students and not just tell them what button to push or the correct sequences to move a robot across a mat. Start Small. A Place for Everything. Money Trouble.

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ISTE23 Redux—First Takeaways

eSchool News

Impero Software announced that it has incorporated AI and machine learning into its newly debuted “Impero Wellbeing” student safety software. ASCD intends to add AI functionality to Witsby, their new professional learning and credentialing platform featuring ASCD’s content. The is also an equity factor to consider as well.