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What Students Learned When They Made Robotics Relevant to Their Lives

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A few years ago, toward the beginning of my journey into robotics, I mentored a team for a local competition. We were on our way to building a Tetrix Prime robot from a kit, when the unimaginable happened—our team’s laptops went missing—and with them, all of our code and design work. Ones that aren’t toys?”

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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As one educator writes about their experience with the tool, there are no individual user profiles, no way to collect likes and no followers — basically, no emphasis on comparison. But CoCo is a departure from Scratch in a few crucial ways. This kind of collaboration doesn’t exist in Scratch or Code.org.

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An Assembly Line of Coding Students? Tough Questions for the Computer Science Movement

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In a popular Wired article titled, The Next Big Blue-Collar Job is Coding , Thompson criticizes pop culture and some writers, like himself, for overly romanticizing the notion of the ‘lone genius coder’—the Mark Zuckerbergs and Mr. Robots of the world—saying that’s not what every coder looks like and that's not what many coders will be.

STEM 109
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Little Passports Vs. KiwiCo – Monthly Subscription Box Comparison – Is Kiwico or Little Passports The Best Educational Toy For Your Child?

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Little Passports Keep Kids Engaged In STEM Geography Expeditions, Cooking, And Science Experiments. The hands-on activities, toys, and games are fun ways to introduce children to STEM and STEAM topics. Little Passports Keep Kids Engaged In STEM Geography Expeditions, Cooking, And Science Experiments. Table of Contents.

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Ozobot

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Ozobot is a new robotic toy that is ideal for STEM and can be programmed. Ideally, it will dray comparisons to the Sphero but is different enough that any school LRC or Science teacher can whip this out for some cool educational demonstrations!!! programming robots' I highly recommend checking out Ozobot clicking here !!!

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The Education of an Android Teacher

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She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” And when she does, the professor requests that they not ask her the question that springs so easily to people’s minds when they encounter a robot: Will you take over the world? I am told I am a robot for good every day.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

Education 218