eSchool News

JULY 4, 2019

At ISTE 2019, that push to learn coding was clear as new K-12 robotics solutions emerged. Aside from the cool factor K-12 robotics offers, students who learn to program through robotics learn a number of skills they’ll take with them well into adulthood, including creativity, problem solving, and the ability to fail without quitting.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Let me be really clear, making is not simply 3D printing, Art Lino, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, robots, laser and vinyl cutters. Materials Openly and Easily Accessible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Former secretary of education, William Bennett, says, “An elementary school that treats the arts as the province of a few gifted children, or views them only as recreation and entertainment, is a school that needs an infusion of soul. Catherine: And… I’m driving, three months later, hearing that they made robots like this. Vicki: Wow.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kids played with Legos, pranced around with stuffed animals and Salesforce mascots, munched on treats, painted using Sphero robots, tinkered with portable gaming devices, made race cars and dueled with robots. Painting with Sphero robots at today's event. . The festivities had a purpose: to highlight Salesforce’s $12.2

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2017

Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world-class presenters and educators from more than 25 countries. To celebrate the end of the first season of the Ten-minute Teacher podcast on June 16 th , we’re running a giveaway – the Dash and Dot Robot Wonder Pack from Wonder Workshop. 00:10:00]. .

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Wadler led a walkout at her elementary school to bring attention to the gun violence in schools across the country. Maria Town’s keynote at the Maker of Nation’s conference where she talks about the rights of persons with disabilities especially from a maker’s perspective.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 28, 2019

A friend of mine had posted, bragging on his robotics club, and some people called him on it and said, “Hey, there’s no girls in there,” and then he went and admitted, “You know what? We’re going to have girls in this robotics club. Now, I want to say something here. I didn’t even notice that.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

Instead of nurturing these interests in our individual classrooms, we organized a student-powered conference where middle schoolers could showcase what they were really interested in learning about with a wider audience. Other students wanted to tackle creating worlds in Minecraft and figure out how to build their own robots and computers.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Also, remember that I can come to your conference or school district and provide engaging authentic, practical, and purposeful professional development. Keep in mind that Computational Thinking can use devices, robots, and computers to support learning. Integrating CT in the Elementary Classroom (Getting Smart). Mike ( [link].

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Biblionasium – Explore this site that is the fun, reading-focused social network for kids in elementary and middle school. Mike Gorman.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It is one of many activities from ISTE-GM AI Explorations Hands-on Guides for Elementary Teachers. They developed a pollination device using robotics to pollinate flowers. She taught machine learning to young students through understanding the characteristics of animals.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids. He’s the robot there. in Elementary Education. One of the things I’m most excited about is that we’re adding a new section to this project.

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 15, 2014

I actually didn''t plan on presenting at many conferences, I sent out a few session proposals for conferences I wanted to attend, and then other opportunities came up. I want them to write blogs and play with robots. We will explore a sequence of programming tools and platforms from cup stacking, to robots.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 26, 2012

Students engage in writing workshops, do some peer review, have mini-conferences with the teacher, write a draft, revise the draft, and hand it in. Do the math: 130 essays x 10 mins minimum per essay (without student conferences) = 1300 mins, divided by 60 (hold on let me get my calculator.) = 21.6 Who am I fooling?!?!?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 16, 2019

Checkout my conference half day workshops : Making Makers Mainstream and Project Based Learning Quick Start. I would like to bring practical and affordable PBL, STEM, Makers, and Standards Based Technology Workshops to your school of conference. You see… we really must learn to put into practice some of the best lessons never taught!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. It was lonely looking around a robotics competition or math club and feeling like an outsider. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 25, 2018

Also, remember that I can come to your conference or school district and provide engaging authentic, practical, and purposeful professional development. Keep in mind that Computational Thinking can use devices, robots, and computers to support learning. Integrating CT in the Elementary Classroom (Getting Smart). Mike ( [link].

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Also, remember that I can come to your conference or school district and provide engaging authentic, practical, and purposeful professional development. Keep in mind that Computational Thinking can use devices, robots, and computers to support learning. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 9, 2018

I have had the chance to use Wonder Workshop's Dot, Dash, and Cue robots at various conference sessions. But these sessions were always guided by the presenter, so I never really got a chance to explore how to code with the robots. The Cue has a fun personality which makes it feel like a true AI robot!

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Childress urged conference goers to “resist saying that we shouldn’t try things that aren’t proven,” even as she added that innovators should “resist saying that the systems are too broken.” Constructing a middle ground feels “harder than ever,” Childress said, even as she shared center stage with the CEO of the Rand Corp.,

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

(Dallas, TX) June 20, 2018 — RoboKind , the creators of robots4autism and Milo , today introduced Jett , the coding and programming robot, along with the robots4STEM curriculum designed to teach all students, including those with disabilities, the skills they need to ignite a lasting interest in STEM. Storytelling Suite.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. The drone was part of a demonstration of the powerful technology that the neuroinfomatics company EMOTIV offered at a conference on the power of technology and education. My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this. Time to figure out who is boss.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2018

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Math Basketball Games – Are you looking for a way to bring a little basketball into your elementary of middle school math class?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Rather than create dependencies and turn children into submissive robots, as many fear, technology may actually be leveraged to enable greater autonomy and develop real leadership skills among students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

After having mastered the elementary and middle school educational system, freshmen often feel confident that they know what to do reach whatever level they—and others—have set as academically acceptable. She is a regular presenter at state and national educational technology conferences.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. After that, living near a school often confers priority.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vrbas, who worked with his middle school students to create an automatic watering system for the school garden, was recognized for his creative use of Vernier sensors to introduce engineering and robotics concepts or practices to his students.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 24, 2018

If you have any doubts that digital learning is transforming education, look no further than these presentations from students at Illinois’ TECH 2018 event this year: Robots in the Art Room. As students at New Holland-Middletown Elementary District 88 remarked, “In our classroom, we use Chromebooks for many things.

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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 30, 2014

From Sphero robots to toy skateboards, there is so much to be learned in play. Despite what the various “award shows” would have you believe, being a connected educator is not a contest to see who has the best ideas, the most well-written blog, or the coolest conference swag. Play is a powerful teacher.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The site has pages for Frequently Asked Questions (recommended for first-timers in order to understand the conference structure), Multimedia (pictures and video from previous Share Fairs), and an Archive for press clippings and past presenters/sessions. In order to register for your free tickets, check out the site's Event page.

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techlearning

JUNE 11, 2018

One of my biggest takeaways from the FETC conference in January was seeing the Root robot live. Basically, Root is everything I was looking for in a coding robot, and I could not wait to try it out. What you want to know is my first impressions of the robot, right? Well, let's say its good, REALLY GOOD.

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 29, 2017

Big news from Wonder Workshop: Challenge Cards- Dash and Dot are some of our favorite robots to introduce robotics to preschool and elementary students. And as I've heard often but don't know who said it, "someone is going to tell your story, shouldn't it be you?"

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The fifth annual Global Education Conference is just a few weeks away, and we want to be sure that you have an opportunity to contribute to this year''s conference as a presenter. Global Education Conference Keynotes. See the Conference Schedule and mark your calendars for presentations by this great group of presenters.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. Our thought was to use the robot to create recycling videos for our school. Students then coded the robot through their challenges.

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