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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science. 6 Super Science Edtech Ideas. So we use the Paper 53 app on our iPads. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. Listen Now.

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7 Things to Know About Coding in the Early Childhood Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

We work with robotics, because robotics are tools that allow them to learn coding and to learn abstract logic and thinking while not sitting in front of a computer screen. So robots have motors, they have sensors, they can move around. Each block represents a command for the robot. So same as with a robot.

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#FETC 2015 Recap

The Electric Educator

FETC is one of the largest EdTech conferences in the country with over 10,000 attendees from around the world. The maker movement is growing I can''t tell you how many sessions there were on 3D Printing, makerspaces, tinkering, hacking, etc. Swivl is a rotating "robot" that follows you while capturing video and audio.

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What is STEM?

My Paperless Classroom

One of my favorite things about teaching robotics is that you get to teach problem solving and logic along the way. Now when the science class experiments with roller coasters, we use the iPad as a high speed camera and take measurements from the images.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Maker Movement. The relative shrinking marketshare of iPads, as well as some very visible failure of iPad rollouts. Robotics in the classroom. Change in cultural perception of identity–gender, technology, science, faith, sexuality, etc. Change in credibility of a high school diploma or college degree.