3 ways telepresence robots are impacting learning
eSchool News
JULY 8, 2022
Immunocompromised children have been dealing with the less positive side of virtual learning well before the pandemic came along.
Friday 5: K-12 coding
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Learning to code can be a game-changer for students, regardless of country. With the hopes of better integrating into the local emerging tech community, Chinese parents prepare their children for code learning before pre-school. And Singapore launched a tailored coding class for primary and secondary school students as early as 2014.
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Improving Student Outcomes Through Work-Based Learning Opportunities
edWeb.net
JANUARY 17, 2024
Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Work-based learning is providing a way for school and district leaders to increase the relevance and value of secondary education, while also offering opportunities for the practice and application of new skills in supportive environments.
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5 reasons to set up a coding program in your district
eSchool News
JULY 28, 2021
At Everett Public Schools, we’ve always had a robotics team at the elementary and secondary levels. Last year we were up to 50 robotics teams within the FIRST organization. During the shutdown, we went into a panic over how students wouldn’t be able to physically “touch” and work on the robots on campus anymore.
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Racing Rats, Independent Cows, and Robots: Is Teaching Career Literacy in Early Grades Effective?
MindSpark
APRIL 26, 2023
by Rose Gaylen Teaching Career Literacy in Early Grades: Why it Matters It’s not too early for both primary and secondary students to begin their work-based learning and career exploration journeys. Perhaps work based learning and career training sound too advanced for elementary or middle school students, as if it’s not relevant yet.
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CoderZ Names Tony Oran as Chief Executive Officer
eSchool News
APRIL 10, 2023
CoderZ , the award-winning, gamified, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, has announced that Tony Oran is joining the company as its CEO in the USA. CoderZ is a gamified coding platform that makes it easy for anyone to learn (and teach), using robots to bring the subject matter to life! DERRY, N.H.
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Slooh Launches New Grant to Help One Million Students Explore Space Using Its Robotic Telescopes
eSchool News
AUGUST 19, 2021
The rolling grant will provide one teacher per every accredited public school in the United States with access to the Slooh interface, robust professional development, and 40 student seats which will enable students to use robotic telescopes to view space phenomena, capture observational data, and engage in gamified learning.
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Why Summer Learning Programs Are Pushing More Fun Than Academics
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2021
After more than a year of teaching under quarantine, school districts have big plans for summer learning. Thanks to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) and its $6.1 Thanks to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) and its $6.1 We call it a summer of learning and joy.
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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. The promise of ed-tech — now as always: make teaching and learning cheaper, faster, more scalable, more efficient. He went from an F to an A+ without learning a thing."
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5 Strategies to Help Superintendents Lead Digital Transformation
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
School leaders need to explain clearly to staff, teachers, parents and students why the technology they are adopting is important and how it is going to improve learning. . Create Compelling Learning Environments. MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out which blended learning program will best fit your classroom.
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Schools Focus on Boosting Students’ Future Career Options
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 16, 2020
The district now offers 16 career clusters, exposing students to a variety of technologies, from medical manikins to VEX robotics and 3D design tools such as Autodesk. . The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.
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Schools Focus on Boosting Students’ Future Career Options
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 2, 2020
The district now offers 16 career clusters, exposing students to a variety of technologies, from medical manikins to VEX robotics and 3D design tools such as Autodesk. . The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.
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Listen EVERYWHERE in High School Theater Brings Clear Audio to Those with Hearing Loss
eSchool News
DECEMBER 1, 2022
BLUFFDALE, UTAH – Listen Technologies, the leading provider of advanced wireless listening solutions for 24 years, announced that John Rennie High School , a secondary school in Quebec, Canada, has selected Listen EVERYWHERE for use in its theater to support assistive listening. . www.listentech.com.?????? .
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ChatGPT Teacher Tips Part 4 – Teacher Writing Assistant
EdTechTeacher
MAY 12, 2023
Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. And ChatGPT provides human-like writing, so what it creates won’t sound robotic. Learn more about the course and sign up for our summer learning pass today! Get Your Pass Today!
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Certiport Recognizes Washington Teacher as Educator of the Year
eSchool News
JUNE 30, 2023
She is also a robotics advisor for the largest VRC Robotics team in Washington. I’ve learned so much from her, and I don’t think I would’ve learned this much anywhere else,” said former student Damian Frey. Karen teaches both computer applications and computer science to first-year high school students in Lake Stevens.
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Harness the Power of LEGO® Education to Engage Students in STEAM Learning
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
From preschool through high school, LEGO® Education provides a continuum of hands-on, playful learning solutions that engage every student’s natural curiosity. LEGO Education solutions are a perfect tool for today’s educators who are looking to boost student engagement and STEAM curiosity, while also improving learning outcomes.
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Slooh Launches Its Next-Gen Platform to Engage Students in Space Exploration
eSchool News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Washington Depot, Connecticut – Slooh, the pioneer in offering live online telescope feeds of the universe and an NGSS-aligned curriculum for school communities worldwide, recently launched the next generation of its online learning platform to make space exploration even easier and more engaging for students and educators alike.
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How Kids Really Learn
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 3, 2019
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How do kids learn and remember? com , talks about this pursuit of learning in the classroom. This Show is From the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Vault Andrew Stadel’s show aired in 2017 and was the top show of 2017 how to help kids really learn.
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National STEM/STEAM Day Nov. 8th
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
While STEM topics seem a natural fit in high schools and post-secondary curriculum, education experts are promoting a focus on STEM subjects for younger and younger children. This STEM bundle includes four lesson plans: Engineering and Design, The Human Body, Keyboarding and the Scientific Method, and Robotics. 4 Lesson plans.
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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. We met virtually for 2 hours every day for 4 days.
10 edtech experts you should follow
Hapara
JANUARY 14, 2022
Integrating technology into instruction and learning is a way of life for educators today. After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. Lindy has several edtech certifications. Vicki Davis.
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What helps kids really learn
The CoolCatTeacher
DECEMBER 29, 2017
How do kids learn and remember? com , talks about this pursuit of learning in the classroom. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, has some fantastic courses for history teachers and those wanting to learn about technology. What helps kids really learn? What really helps kids learn? Listen Now.
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Wizrobotics launches Wizprodigy, a new online competition experience for STEM students
eSchool News
JANUARY 28, 2021
Wizrobotics, an online live learning platform for teaching and inspiring K-12 students to explore STEM fields, announced the launch of Wizprodigy. Learning at home is not the same as learning in person with amazing teacher interactions and friends to keep students motivated and upbeat. About Wiz Robotics.
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Social-Emotional Learning Matters. for Students AND Teachers
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
So she “pulls it together”, goes numb, and begins to read from her script in a robotic voice: “Step 1: the first step of emotional regulation is…” Teacher stress can interfere with effective teaching of social-emotional learning to students. The negative cycle of teacher stress and ineffective teaching and learning.
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Native American students have the least access to computer science
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In Fortier’s district, students in science classes were recently tasked with using robots to code the life cycle of a salmon.
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AI Curriculum Is Coming for K-12 At Last. What Will It Include?
Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2019
When Ayanna met Cozmo the robot, both she and the robot lit up. “it elementary and secondary schools teach the subject, maybe because there are so few curricula available for students. We’re hoping to create opportunities for students here at our school and more broadly to learn about AI,” Roberts said. They just clicked.”
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Navigating the Roadmap to Employability: Preparing Students for the Future
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Mesecar advocated for the use of different types of assessments, such as portfolios and assignment-based learning, to demonstrate mastery, and noted that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) supports innovative assessments to gauge students’ learning in various ways.
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Phenix City Schools Awarded Cognia STEM Certification
eSchool News
AUGUST 4, 2022
Engages students in ways that connect learning to the real world. Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction, Rachael Peters said, “The initiative to become STEM Certified, system-wide, was the work and achievement of many educators in our system. Student-centered learning is an important objective in the Smartlab.
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December 15 University of New Hampshire to Host the State Finals forState’s Second Annual Cyber Robotics Coding Competition
techlearning
OCTOBER 18, 2018
On December 15, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) will host the finals of the state’s Cyber Robotics Coding Competition (CRCC), being held by the New Hampshire Department of Education (NH DOE) and the Intelitek STEM and CTE Education Foundation ( ISCEF ). What a great opportunity for everyone.”
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Digital Promise
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS). Joining Verizon Innovative Learning Schools has also changed the way teachers teach at both Chilhowee and Copper Basin.
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How to Prepare Students for Jobs in the Self-Driving-Car-Industry
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Dolan, principal systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and a self-driving vehicle researcher in the school’s Robotics Institute , is the value they place on employees with that broad skill set. Linear algebra is at the heart of how the car learns to drive itself,” says Jamthe. But even better, says Dolan: C++.
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West Sound STEM Network Expands Partnership with Slooh to Engage More Students in Space Exploration
eSchool News
OCTOBER 29, 2021
After successfully providing a number of Network member schools with access to Slooh’s robotic telescopes and patented Mission Interface last year, West Sound STEM Network is now expanding the program to reach 250 teachers and 10,000 students. To learn more about Slooh and to apply for The Slooh Space Exploration Grant, visit Slooh.org.
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52 4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019
Edsurge
JANUARY 28, 2019
Meanwhile, the public was amazed at technological advances like Boston Dynamic’s Atlas robot doing parkour , while simultaneously being outraged at the thought of our data no longer being ours and Alexa listening in on all our conversations. I see four AI use and ethics trends set to disrupt classrooms and conference rooms.
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Building Coding Skills Through Playful Learning
edWeb.net
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Teaching computer coding skills and concepts in the primary grades may sound like a challenge, but now there are hands-on activities and age-appropriate software that engage young students in this type of learning. During a recent edWebinar , ways to develop early coding skills through playful learning were presented by Leanna Prater, Ed.D.,
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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
Students will get to learn how target vocabulary items are being used in real life contexts to create meanings. The site offers this interesting resource packed full of tips to help teachers and parents learn how to discuss challenging news stories with kids. Killer Underwear Invasion!: Can You Believe It?:
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What are your edtech resolutions?
eSchool News
DECEMBER 31, 2018
This year, I resolve to … Support high-quality learning. For 2019, our IT emphasis will be on cybersecurity and on high-availability, high-resiliency, high-speed wireless access to support 24 x 7 x 365 learning. Oletha Walker, challenge resource/project-based learning teacher, John F. Help teachers learn to code.
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AI in the Classroom — Educators Share Their Personal Challenges and Successes
Edsurge
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Through professional learning opportunities for educators, the program is designed to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s AI careers. Recently, we spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms. ISTE: What motivated you to join the AI Explorations PD program?
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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education
Edsurge
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. Fifty years ago, American futurist and author Alvin Toffler predicted that “the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
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130 Automation is remaking Mississippi jobs: Are workers ready?
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 17, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Related: Ten jobs that are safe from robots.
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techlearning
JULY 12, 2018
– Lexia Learning today announced that its online literacy program Lexia PowerUp Literacy (PowerUp) received Tech & Learning’s 2018 ISTE Best of Show award. PowerUp empowers secondary teachers—regardless of their background or expertise in reading—to deliver the exact instruction each student needs to become a proficient reader.
Reinvigorate Creativity and Confidence with STEAM
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
In a recent edWebinar , “Building STEAM Confidence and Creativity in Middle School,” educational technology experts described how enriching STEAM-based learning experiences can enhance the socio-emotional skills students need to succeed now into the future. By the end of sixth grade, they begin to build and program robots.
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IT#1: What’s next in ed-tech? These 18 trends
eSchool News
DECEMBER 27, 2016
So, as an educator interested in technology — after all, you are reading eSchool News — what is the best source for tracking emerging technologies for learning? Long-Term Trends: Driving ed-tech adoption in K-12 education for five or more years: Redesigning Learning Spaces. Deeper Learning Approaches. Personalizing Learning.
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A World of PBL… 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Learning must be authentic and meaningful in order for the content to really be understood and usable. While there are several education models that promote this idea, it is a necessity in a well-planned Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ? John Dewey. The 25 Resources.
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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019
EdNews Daily
DECEMBER 20, 2019
The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. By Doug Cauthen. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards.
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