eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Additionally, a series of Classroom Activities resources further support educators’ efforts to integrate STEM teaching and learning into instruction with ready-made activities featuring step-by-step guides designed for wherever learning takes place. Discovery Education Experience users can visit the STEM Careers Channel here.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

JCPS’s Grace James Academy of Excellence is dedicated to empowering, activating, and illuminating academic excellence in every girl through an Afrocentric and gender-specific STEAM curriculum.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. For instance, the “Starry Night” recreation was done using Bézier curves, a technique often used in computer graphics.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A series of Classroom Activities resources further support educators’ efforts to integrate STEM teaching and learning into instruction with ready-made activities featuring step-by-step guides educators can use in the classroom, the remote environment, or wherever learning is taking place. FUTURE U. – Virtual Field Trip.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. history and civics to be studied in an interdisciplinary manner. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier—and build momentum and depth throughout a student’s career. They were roleplaying.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 27, 2018

Textbooks didn’t make us super teachers. Create more opportunities for students to engage with and contribute to relevant local, national, and international interdisciplinary communities. Help students become more connected so that they can begin to create active networks with individuals and organizations for mutual benefit.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

Neuroscience shows us that learning is active, social, contextual, even sporadic. Learning cannot be coerced by ringing a bell nor compelled by the directive to “turn your textbooks to page 204.” What if I could do more interdisciplinary work or give credit for learning that happens outside my classroom?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Slogging through a lifeless textbook is not. Active, energetic, enthusiastic, maybe messy, and probably noisy collaboration is inspiring. Interdisciplinary learning that is seen by students as meaningful, authentic, and connected to the real world is inspiring. Using technology to complete digital worksheets is not.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

These activities required enthusiasm and ingenuity—the same traits that teachers possess in abundance, according to three Teacher of Year finalists who sat down for interviews with EdSurge. I try to teach my students that science isn't just happening in a textbook, but that is happening all around us,” Rivera explains.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

STEM should be a catalyst for active learning. Can we graduate preservice teachers that come out of the gate with interdisciplinary STEM competencies? We need to do a better job of attaching learning standards to our STEM activities – we want to see learning progression occurring. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa.

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