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Getting started with STEM in your classroom!

Neo LMS

There is a growing need for STEM skills in the workplace, as it has been reported that there will be 3.5 million jobs available by 2025 that require STEM skills. To best prepare students, we need to find opportunities for them to learn about STEM and can do so at any grade level or in any content area. Doing STEM Challenges.

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5 Ways to Bring Computational Thinking and STEM Together

The CoolCatTeacher

STEM and Computational Thinking go together. Today’s guest is a PhD, Biomedical engineer and STEM Teacher. Stephanie Zeiger helps us see the potential of STEM and computational thinking. 5 Ways to Bring Computational Thinking and STEM Together. So first of all, you said, STEM and computational thinking are not exclusive.

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Rural areas are poised for unique STEM education, but need more resources

eSchool News

The report takes stock of existing federal programs and provides recommendations for federal, state, and local action to improve STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. This post originally appeared on the NAS news site and is reposted here with permission.

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Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). List as many definitions of the word “turkey” as you can think of and ask students to check off all those familiar to them.

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Computational Thinking in Preschool: What, Why, and How

Digital Promise

The project looked at how those skills could be integrated in common preschool and home STEM learning experiences in mutually supportive ways. This included the creation of a new, free app, STEM-tastic Adventures (available through the App Store and Google Play ), to provide young children fun and engaging opportunities to learn CT and STEM.

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Blended Learning: What It Is and What It Is Not

Catlin Tucker

This perspective stems from a lack of clarity about what blended learning is and why it is valuable. Let’s start with a clear definition. A key aspect of this definition is positioning the students as “active agents” in the lesson or learning experience. What Blended Learning Is.

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Inspiring Ideas and Resources from the #STEM4INNOVATION Conference

Teacher Reboot Camp

Karan Watson, STEM 4 Innovation Keynote Speaker. Recently, I attended the incredible STEM 4 Innovation Conference at Texas A&M University. I would definitely recommend this conference to any educator in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education.