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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. These last parts stem from my classroom democracy belief, as does our opening class assignment of collaboratively determining class norms.

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. To maximize participation and use of the strategy, we provide discussion stems for the habit. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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Flinn Scientific Partners with the Virginia Technology Student Association to Support Virtual STEM Competitions

eSchool News

Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of science lab materials and safety and STEM solutions for the K-16 education market, has partnered with the Virginia Technology Student Association (Virginia TSA) to support and expand participation in virtual, intra-curricular student STEM competitions.

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4 ways we designed collaborative learning spaces

eSchool News

The vision was for students to come in and have Socratic seminars and maybe discuss a passage. Related : How outdoor learning spaces lead to STEM engagement How to create engaging active learning environments.

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

Edsurge

In that class, two students choose a peer-reviewed article and lead seminars every Friday. There are other highly personalized STEM programs similar to the Paulding County High School program in Georgia. According to the Georgia Department of Education website , there are about 11 STEM/STEAM certified schools in Georgia.

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Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs

The Hechinger Report

As an African-American and a woman, Davis is part of two demographic groups that that are vastly underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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