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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. There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. And many former campers are now professional coders at top technology companies.

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

For a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) activity, try one of these Science of Sound experiments. Do the robot dance for an exciting way to practice gross motor skills. Sociology of Education, 2002, 75(1), pp. If you’re looking for a sensory activity that younger students will enjoy, make rainstick bottles.

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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

It’s a prime event to draw attention to black talent in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016. Related: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price.

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Thursday - Paulo Blikstein from Stanford on Cutting-Edge Technologies for Inner-City Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is the director of Stanford''s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab and director of Stanford Makers'' Club and FabLab@School project. Paulo’s research focus on the confluence of expressive technologies for learning and critical pedagogy. degree from the MIT Media Lab (2002), where he was also a visiting scholar (2003).

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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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