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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! Check out my Booking Page. My calendar is filling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In addition to learning concepts they’d see in algebra that fall, they were exposed to the stories of famous Black and Latino figures who excelled in STEM, such as Black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and Mexican-American astronaut Jose M. When the school year arrived, they participated in after-school tutoring at Brookline High.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said.

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techlearning

APRIL 11, 2018

(Waltham, MA) April 11, 2018 — KinderLab Robotics , the creators of KIBO™ , a robot kit designed to teach children ages 4–7 to build, program, decorate, and bring their own robot to life without requiring any screen-time, today announced its acceptance to STEMworks , an online honor roll of high-quality STEM education programs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. And if you’re still wondering about our robot overlords and where they fit in—well, what do you think the current K-12 boom in coding is for?

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Workbench enables schools to implement Project Based Learning (PBL), STEM/STEAM, and Making into their curriculum. Since 2010, City Schools has worked to address the problem of outdated infrastructure, and the 21st Century School Buildings Program was born out of this endeavor. STEM/STEAM education ? Student engagement ?

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

But what if we spend thousands of dollars on 3D printers, robotics, and other ephemera and it just ends up collecting dust? Cardboard Tube STEM Activities and more! This is a Mommy blog that has lots of great STEM ideas! We’ve created cardboard arcades, robots, buildings, etc." -- Read the article for more!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

The Startling Stats Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of U.S. population in 2010 was African-American or Latino/Hispanic). Even among African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans who have STEM degrees, only 30 percent have STEM-related careers. and 2 times more likely to attend school with a robotics club.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

But because nursing demands interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, it can’t easily be done by robots, say futurists, medical professionals and technology experts. In his 2015 book “The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,” Martin Ford suggests that the spread of A.I. Is empathy robot-proof?

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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. The Global Read Aloud – The project was created in 2010 and had a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. Check out Pen Pals School.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics. Problems (that we all know about) Educators across the globe are increasingly familiar with the staggering statistics: Between 2010 and 2020, STEM jobs growth will outpace all other jobs at 1 8.7% , leading to an estimated 1.1

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2010, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) was one of several sites to receive funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. At the Rockwood Library in Oregon , for example, kids can come after school and on weekends to noodle around with robotics equipment and animation software.

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 25, 2018

You an start with just one Sphero Mini : The App-Controlled Robot Ball Photo by: Jenny of The Brick Castle "Little robot. Sphero Mini fits a huge experience into a tiny robot the size of a ping pong ball. Sure, you can can add lots more to a Robotics area in a Makerspace. I'm a big advocate of STEAM rather than STEM.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2010, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) was one of several sites to receive funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. At the Rockwood Library in Oregon , for example, kids can come after school and on weekends to noodle around with robotics equipment and animation software.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM. Mining for Antibiotics, Right Under Our Noses.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Manufacturing, which shed nearly a third of its workforce between 2000 and 2010 , is rebounding as a solid path to the middle class. As robots take over much of the manual labor in factories, the new jobs being created tend to require computer and engineering skills and advanced training.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. In 2010, Sir Michael Barber published Deliverology 101: A Field Guide for Educational Leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research. Some experts caution against reading too much into these numbers.

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