eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2019

Let students choose their favorite topics to study and then seek out the best hands-on STEM curriculum and activities that meet the students’ interests. We surveyed our students to get feedback from them,” Bolshakova said. The STEM materials will be used in all of these settings.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

I wanted to create a hands-on lab for teachers that focused on STEM and computer science and that provided opportunities for teachers to learn how to use new tech tools in meaningful ways with their students. To date, close to 3,000 educators have taken the survey. Do you mind taking 2 minutes to fill out my PD survey?

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

CoderZ today announced the winners of the all-new CoderZ League: the Virtual Cyber Robotics Competition (formerly the Cyber Robotics Coding Competition or CRCC). Students in grades four through 12 throughout the United States and the world joined in the cloud-based robotics tournament. We are so immensely proud of them all.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When surveying the research , effective teacher professional development is content-focused with active learning, supports job-embedded collaboration, uses models and modeling, provides coaching and expert support, gives opportunities for feedback and reflection, and is of sustained duration (Darling-Hammond). Look at Courses. Ricketts, R.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

They were at a family coding event and had been working together to brainstorm an idea for a story, draw it on paper and try out different ways to recreate it using KIBO , a tangible robotics platform programmed using interlocking wooden blocks. He pressed the green triangle on top of the robot to run the program again.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 11, 2017

I love teaching robotics and coding! As a teacher, I wanted an easy-to-use robot I could incorporate into my classes and Makerspace that would help students see coding in action. I love the Sphero because coding the robot is easy, even for beginners. Many students did not have experience with coding or robots in their schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

One of the key findings from the assessment is that, despite the well-known existence of the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, girls outperformed boys by a full five points—155 to 150. All showed slight but statistically significant improvements over students in 2014. Scores are out of a possible 300.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. The students in the survey were specially selected to represent the nation and rural, suburban and city students each made up about a third of the students.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions, at after hour gatherings, and certainly in the vendor hall. This is simply a reflection of what is happening in the private sector.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

S cience T echnology E ngineering and M athematics illustration by Sam Patterson What I like most about the STEM education movement is the co-mingling of disciplines and the emphasis on real world project based learning. At its best STEM education engages students in a process of design, implementation and revision.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

In fact, 65% of Millennials in a study felt they are not confident in face-to-face interactions from a survey from One Poll. Examples are STEM, PBL, Inquiry-Based Learning, Interdisciplinary, and Base Learning. Choosing an education model wisely.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

UBTECH Robotics introduces a new robotics kit and curriculum, UKIT, and Yanshee, a robot with an AI interface with a programmable Raspberry Pi. STEM Education Works officially opened up shop during the conference. The new company, owned by SDI Innovations, makes a robotic arm and a corresponding STEM curriculum.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

26% Collaborative tools like Google and Microsoft 365 24% Maker/STEM products 9% AR/VR, coding, robotics, & other emerging tech 9% Computer hardware (new Apple products, Microsoft Surface. Tech & Learning asked readers. Here are the highlights: WHAT TECH WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO USE THIS SCHOOL YEAR?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Defense Department, in a separate study, calls for an initiative akin to the 1958 Eisenhower National Defense Act to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. Among the students who decide to study STEM in college, more than a third end up changing their majors , according to the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

To support their efforts, they enlisted unusual help: from a robot named Meccanoid. DPA Principal Mashea Ashton (center) with two founding staff members of the school and Meccanoid, the talking robot and secret weapon during recruiting. They spend another 30 minutes a day, four days a week, taking robotics.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Many teachers can tell you first hand that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education has been gaining influence in the world of academia for at least the last five years. There are plenty of different avenues professors can take to implement STEM education. K-12 STEM programs as better than average.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 29, 2019

Players will also meet BRITT, a Backpack Robotic Informational Temporal Technician, who functions as a trusty sidekick who can translate languages, provide critical information and is a personal hologram that wraps around and disguises players to ensure they blend in. Look for many stories to come and possibly some transmedia features!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. Related story: One reason students aren’t prepared for STEM careers?

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

To identify top challenges, we asked educators and education leaders to use a wiki survey crowdsourcing tool to answer the question: “Which is a bigger challenge in K-12 education?” A total of 276 people participated in the survey. Many school districts across the country now provide STEM curricula at all grade levels.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 19, 2014

GlassLab is looking for ELA and STEM educators and summer program leaders to pilot and provide feedback on a brand new iPad game to teach argumentation and reasoned thinking. Can robots really understand human emotion and meaning? Subject matter: ELA and STEM. Time commitment: 2 x 30-45 minute sessions and a short survey.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tidwell is director of STEM innovation at Johnson C. But a recent analysis scored Charlotte worst for economic mobility in a survey of the nation’s 50 largest cities, with pockets of concentrated poverty cut off from the rich opportunities just around the corner. Why focus on computer science, STEM and entrepreneurship?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Portland, OR – The Teich Group and Catapult X announce the winners of the Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2023 Awards, the only awards program judged by STEM educators. These STEM products were subject to a two-part evaluation process. Williams-Duncan, Kim Collazo, Christina Wilson, Jamica Craig, and Erin Barr.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Kareem Edouard of the ExCITe Center shared research on equity in maker learning, and gave us seven strategies to make makerspaces more equitable for students who are underrepresented in STEM. GROWING AND STRENGTHENING OUR NETWORKS. — Jess Falkenthal (@Jfalkenthal) July 18, 2018. Learn more about the conversation in this EdWeek article.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

These spaces strengthen community-based learning, particularly for problem solving, creative thinking, innovation, collaboration, and engagement in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math),” IMLS says. But Runyan doubted the users of the library, if surveyed, would have picked 3D printing as their preferred form of making.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

Here a student shows off his robot that he built and programmed for the technology fair. gadoeteachertakeover #librariesofinstagram #makered #makerspace #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #robot #robotics #stem #steam #technology #coding #hourofcode #tlchat #proudtobeccsd. Post 2-5 photos per day.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics. Problems (that we all know about) Educators across the globe are increasingly familiar with the staggering statistics: Between 2010 and 2020, STEM jobs growth will outpace all other jobs at 1 8.7% , leading to an estimated 1.1

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Instead of assigning students the same structured projects (such as the age-old puzzles that move a robot through a maze), empower students to write code for something they really care about. And in grades K-5, computer science is an integral part of the STEM program and added when possible to larger project-based learning activities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

(Portland, OR) – The Teich Group and Catapult X announce the finalists for the Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2023 Awards, the only awards program judged by STEM educators. Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2023 Awards Finalists Organization Product Accelerate Learning Inc.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Yet a growing number of educational institutions across the States are using iPads; a 2013 survey of K-12 students showed that 48 percent had used a tablet during class. The user writes commands for movement and drawing to produce line graphics either on screen or with a small robot—a turtle armed with a pen.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Leaders there see fab labs as a natural extension of their hands-on STEM programs, and a way to infuse creativity rather than passive “screen time” into children’s early encounters with technology. The museum became STEM-focused several years ago, but a low-tech mindset pervades its exhibits. We need to ask, what’s the added value?”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. Soon we will have no use for interviews, focus groups or surveys—the typical go-to tools for understanding what people think and feel. My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this. Time to figure out who is boss. We will look right inside people’s minds.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

One study looking at labor market recovery after recessions found that displaced workers ages 55 to 64 were 16 percentage points less likely to be re-employed at the time of follow-up surveys than workers ages 35 to 44.16 Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Upskilling will help solve the STEM skills gap. . “According to Randstad Sourceright’s 2017 Talent Trends survey, a majority (84 percent) of C-suite executives and human capital leaders believe AI and robotics will have an impact on the workplace in the next three to five years.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots. And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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