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KinderLab Robotics Debuts AI Curriculum for Young Learners

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Waltham, MA – KinderLab Robotics , a leader in educational STEAM robotics for grades pre-K–5, has launched Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Grades , a free curriculum designed to help students understand how AI tools work and think critically about how these tools can improve lives in their communities.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

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I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school. Together, we navigated the cultural shock of teaching in Jacksonville, a city with a small Latino population compared to the communities we had grown up in. I also found mentorship through identity-based connections.

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

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Our learning objectives focus on the social, political, economical and cultural aspects of AI. We really focused on culturally relevant pedagogy as one of the foundational theoretical frameworks. I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.”

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Do Virtual Schools Flatten Cultural Identity? Or Expand It?

k12 Online Schools

Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Era of K12 online education In a traditional classroom, culture is everywhere. But what happens to that rich cultural backdrop when school moves online? The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. Lessons are compressed.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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In the early ‘80s, he helped found the Media Arts and Sciences program at the MIT Media Lab, and in it the Epistemology and Learning Group, where I earned my doctorate collaborating with a diverse group of students (50% were women, African Americans, Hispanics, and gays). Did you ever hear about a game advertised as being easy?

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Why Professors Doubt Education Research

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Lauren Herckis, an anthropologist at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied the culture of ancient Mayan cities, is turning her focus closer to home these days—exploring why professors try new teaching approaches, or decide not to. I understand that you have a PhD in curriculum design, but I don't really need that.”

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

Effective training of SLPs requires that students understand the complex conceptualizations that underlie the biological/physiological, psychological, developmental, linguistic, and cultural interactions at play in determining the etiology and development of communication and swallowing disorders.

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