The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. In 2010, the school looked back over the previous six years and saw that just 6 percent of North Star graduates majored in STEM subjects in college. It showed me the potential I could have academically.”. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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STEM Study Robotics Course 96

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Whether your students design robots with PenPals in Asia, write poetry with PenPals in Europe, or create environmental solutions with PenPals in Africa. Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other!

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Resources Classroom Sony Digital Citizenship 79

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The irony was not lost on Luhtala and Burns when they rescued much-needed shelving from the elementary school. At end of year three, still finding that coding, robotic and circuitry workshops were a little bit elusive, they started experimenting with augmented and virtual reality and robotics. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala.

Libraries 41

Libraries Learning Robotics eBook 41

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics. If there is a non-tech way to do something, I will find it,” says Shanti Williams, a teacher at P.S. 34 Oliver H. Andrew-Lamon faced her fears and brought Hour of Code to her classroom.

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Classroom Robotics STEM Survey 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Since 2010, Next Generation Learning Challenges has given $40 million in grants nationwide for “next generation learning,” which it defined in a 2013 paper as “learning designs that are personalized and competency based … and that are enabled by the deeply integrated use of technology.” Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets?

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 106

iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, I thought that technology might be the savior of education. So then we thought that maybe we could pool our money and buy a Sphero robot to do random acts of kindness for others. I created the Learning Genome Project as an attempt to make it possible to personalize education for every child.

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Robotics Groups System Conference 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’re going to finish up our robotics badge by making a toothbrush robot,” she announced to four fellow members of Mobile, Alabama’s Girl Scout Troop 8274 in June. MacKenzie Brackett demonstrates a toothbrush robot wiring technique to three troop members attending via Zoom Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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Robotics STEM Report Mobility 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The eighth grader can also remember each of the kids she began school with back at Boudreaux Canal Elementary School. The elementary she went to next, Upper Little Caillou, had replaced another nearby school that had shuttered for the same reasons a few years earlier. Related: The silence of school teachers on climate change.

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Report Elementary Trends Industry 69

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs. No single child designed a complete machine.

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2025

He remembers as principal of Jeffersontown High School in early 2010 walking into a chemistry class to find one of the students asleep. A student in the engineering pathway at Fern Creek High School works on building a robot that she designed and will also program for her class project.

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Robotics Industry Report Software 123

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.

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Common Core Data Report Blended Learning 107