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ISTE Day 0 Recap for my #NotatISTE #ISTELive Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

I am learning about many things I haven’t had time to explore during the busy pandemic season and beginning to share many things on social media and here relating to autonomous vehicles, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Robotics, Drones, AI and so many technologies that will truly transform our world.

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Focus on 21st-century skills: 3 Digital trends in K-12 education

Neo LMS

If illiteracy makes social and professional inclusion difficult or impossible sometimes, the same goes for digital illiteracy. Compulsively engaging with social media, posting everything about their daily lives, or playing video games is not synonymous with digital literacy. On the contrary, it may do more harm than good.

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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

edWeb.net

They highlighted that soft skills critical to student success in future fields of study such as logic, problem-solving and creativity are integral components of computer science curriculums. Coding Activities. Coding can be an abstract concept and difficult for some students to comprehend.

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STUDENT VOICES: We need more women in STEM fields, and we have ideas for making that happen

The Hechinger Report

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how.

STEM 101
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How Much Time Should a Student Spend At School?

The CoolCatTeacher

And while some students are not often engaged with learning, others have the opposite problem and are always studying. They may get on the bus at 4 pm but, once they are home, they are studying far into the night. Is it possible to have a highly engaging school day with an hour of study a night?

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Enough With the Screen Time Scare! How to Be Sensible About Children’s Device Use

Edsurge

In a study published last month, researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and Cardiff University found that there was no correlation between parents’ adherence to screen time guidance and their children’s wellbeing. Of course, watching a YouTube clip is very different than programming a robot to shoot a basketball.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S. English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,