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Don’t Rely on Cute Apps and Games to Teach Coding. Turn to Your Students Instead.

Edsurge

I hear the kids are going to make a robot move to the right, stop, and turn around. Today, K-12 coding education offerings often include edutainment: some brand’s robotic-design, game-design and app-design program, packaged as engaging, entertaining experiences for students. How cool is that? The reality: It’s not that cool.

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

Do the robot dance for an exciting way to practice gross motor skills. Sociology of Education, 2002, 75(1), pp. If your classroom has tablets available, try TuneTrain —a free app that teaches children how to create music. These singing activities are all Zoom-compatible for distance learning classrooms. 10 Picture Books About Music.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony.

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

The report found that robots and other forms of automation will disproportionately impact black workers, who are more likely to hold jobs that are vulnerable to automation and to reside in geographic areas that are predicted to see a greater number of automation-related job losses. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

The Hechinger Report

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. The program, founded in Houston in 2002, plans to train and place 150 interns in the Bay Area this fall. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs.

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Even as women outpace men in graduating from college, their earnings remain stuck

The Hechinger Report

Women still earn 82 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men , Pew reports — a figure nearly unchanged since 2002. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report “I think we’re getting there, but it’s slow,” said Szoo, in a conference room of a gleaming new engineering and robotics building on Northeastern’s campus.

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Navigating the Roadmap to Employability: Preparing Students for the Future

edWeb.net

Leveraging existing resources, such as on-staff engineers or computer scientists, can lead to the formation of robotics clubs. Since 2002, CAE has developed performance-based and custom assessments that authentically measure students’ essential academic and career skills.