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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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Top Tips for Cross-Curricular Coding

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More than traditional paper and pencil activities, coding activities can connect learning for students, introduce multistep processes, and develop computational thinking skills. Whether virtual or face to face, students are assigned roles that allow them to communicate, problem solve, and work as a team. Join the Community.

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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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#7: More than 40 new things we saw at ISTE 2018

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Creativity, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital competencies were just a few of the many trends at ISTE 2018. We’ve rounded up some of the biggest trends, news, and tools to help you organize your post-ISTE thoughts. Intelitek ‘s CoderZ is a web-based learning environment program where students code virtual 3D robots.

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Judge, Jury and Education Startups: Reflections From the SXSW EDU Launch Competition

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While it’s unrealistic to dive into details about algorithms and machine learning within the 5 minutes allowed for Q&A, he did at least articulate a mechanism for how the tool collects and labels data, and uses that data to continually train and fine-tune its system. (I I often refer to this piece as a primer of questions to ask about AI.)

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AI in the Classroom — Educators Share Their Personal Challenges and Successes

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Through professional learning opportunities for educators, the program is designed to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s AI careers. Recently, we spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms. We don't have to build a robot.

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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019

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From the experiences we provide (iPads, cutting-edge digital library, nationally-ranked Robotics program) to the inter-district professional learning we support (top-ranked VrainWaves podcast), at the core of our program is a belief in technology as a catalyst for learning at all levels.

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