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3 ways telepresence robots are impacting learning

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Not only do children face academic underachievement if they miss school, but friendships are also disrupted and many suffer from increased anxiety or even become vulnerable to other stressors or secondary illnesses.

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Friday 5: K-12 coding

eSchool News

And Singapore launched a tailored coding class for primary and secondary school students as early as 2014. Coding and robotics can help students develop critical skills for success after high school, highlighting the importance of coding in real life. Coding and robotics can be introduced in any subject, with a little creativity.

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5 reasons to set up a coding program in your district

eSchool News

At Everett Public Schools, we’ve always had a robotics team at the elementary and secondary levels. Last year we were up to 50 robotics teams within the FIRST organization. During the shutdown, we went into a panic over how students wouldn’t be able to physically “touch” and work on the robots on campus anymore.

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CoderZ Names Tony Oran as Chief Executive Officer

eSchool News

CoderZ , the award-winning, gamified, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, has announced that Tony Oran is joining the company as its CEO in the USA. CoderZ is a gamified coding platform that makes it easy for anyone to learn (and teach), using robots to bring the subject matter to life! DERRY, N.H.

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Racing Rats, Independent Cows, and Robots: Is Teaching Career Literacy in Early Grades Effective?

MindSpark

by Rose Gaylen Teaching Career Literacy in Early Grades: Why it Matters It’s not too early for both primary and secondary students to begin their work-based learning and career exploration journeys. Farming now includes robotics. And not a modern farmer, either—the Grapes of Wrath version. It's automated and efficient.

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Slooh Launches New Grant to Help One Million Students Explore Space Using Its Robotic Telescopes

eSchool News

The rolling grant will provide one teacher per every accredited public school in the United States with access to the Slooh interface, robust professional development, and 40 student seats which will enable students to use robotic telescopes to view space phenomena, capture observational data, and engage in gamified learning.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Students were therefore unable to sit their A Levels, the exams that are the culmination of secondary education there. That robot grading is degrading. Who has a teacher or peer read their paper, and who gets a robot?) As in the US, schools in the UK were shuttered in the spring because of the coronavirus. I believe that firmly.