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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021. Recently, I shared 21 Hot Topics for Teacher Professional Development for Summer 2021. Tennille Johnston is an award-winning science teacher in Texas who is speaking out about what really happened this school year.

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Meet the maker: High school student develops robot guide dogs

eSchool News

High school student Selin Alara Ornek is looking ahead–using machine learning and the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to create robot guide dogs for the visually impaired. She’s a self-taught robotics developer–in building IC4U, she used the Jetson Developer Kit as a sandbox to explore and experiment.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

From July through December 2021, I took Teaching Computer Science in Grades 6-12 from Advancement Courses for my three hours of college credit required by my certification organization. . As a result, I was able to find some excellent research on not only programming (Ricketts) but the use of robotics (Elkin). Course Background.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2021

Edsurge

In 2021, we told the story of a student who was surprised to learn that the professor featured in his online course lecture videos died years ago. And we also looked at whether home robots could come to classrooms, and that one made the list as well. Below are the 10 top episodes of 2021 as voted by listeners.

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World’s Largest Robotics Competition Returns: Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation to Host Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship

eSchool News

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , a 501c3 nonprofit and VEX Robotics , is back to showcase the incredible talent and skill of a range of student competitors by hosting the first-ever Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship May 17-29, 2021.

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3 best practices to create a STEM-focused school

eSchool News

Department of Labor , in 2021, there were nearly 10 million workers in STEM occupations–a total projected to grow by almost 11 percent by 2031. Department of Labor , in 2021, there were nearly 10 million workers in STEM occupations–a total projected to grow by almost 11 percent by 2031. According to the U.S.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Many of the micro-credentials we launched in 2021 focus on topics such as learner variability, digital fluency, STEM, flexible mindsets, early literacy, and more. STEM Minds. Teach for America – Las Vegas. TGR Foundation. The TGR Foundation’s mission is to empower students to pursue their passions through education.

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