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STEM, STEAM, and makerspaces–oh my!

eSchool News

By now, we’ve all heard about STEM, the acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math education. Most people have heard of STEAM, which includes arts education along with STEM and allows students to be more creative in their exploration of more technical subjects. STEM and STEAM.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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“What we are hearing is students are personally overwhelmed, emotionally overwhelmed—and facing financial hardship, technology issues and difficulties with child care that are preventing them from logging on,” says Tim Renick, founding executive director of the National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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Middle schools are experimenting with ‘themes’ like math, sustainability and the arts. But is it all just branding?

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — On a sunny Friday in early November, four 10- and 11-year-old boys stand on the corner of 26th street and Fourth avenue in Brooklyn, holding homemade clipboards and signs that read “Take our food equity survey.” Sophia (left) and other BUGS sixth graders talk with a construction worker for their food equity survey.

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Indiana students GEAR UP with STEM

eSchool News

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. That’s how Indiana GEAR UP officials are ensuring high student engagement within their program, according to Executive Director Dr. Virginia Bolshakova. “We

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To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom

Edsurge

In January 2022, a review of 17 research studies showed that young kids can learn from “guided play” as well as if they were being directly instructed by an adult or a teacher. In an email survey conducted by Lego Education in September, 98 percent of 1,000 K-8 teachers indicated that play-based learning “reduces their feelings of burnout.”

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Student and Teacher Motivational Needs in the School Setting

User Generated Education

Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. It’s commonsense, but it’s also reinforced by hundreds of studies ( An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle ). Student and Teacher Needs Ladder Framework.

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5 Reasons Why School Computer Labs Still Matter

ViewSonic Education

The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. Forty-one percent (41%) of high school students lack access to a non-shared in-school device. In middle schools, 37% of the students lack individual 1:1 device access. This, in fact, is an ongoing trend.

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