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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

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Makerspaces are a great example of STEAM learning, letting students combine creativity and art elements into more traditional STEM topics. As STEM has risen in prominence over the past decade, arts education has yet to achieve the same recognition and integration. You can’t have one without the other.

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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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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

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The district is in the midst of navigating another drastic shift: rolling out custom, teacher-curated curriculum designed with free, openly licensed material, district technology director Ed Eimiller said. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws. Pushes like the U.S.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic. Learning Stories.

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

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Students need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to navigate what’s being called “the new electricity.” I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.” This is fashion design, culinary arts, urban city design.

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Canva Introduces Student-Safe AI Products, Customizable Lessons for Teachers, and Over 5,000 Free Classroom Resources to 50 Million Students and Teachers

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Curricular Lessons : A range of ready-to-teach lessons designed to support the K-8 curriculum across Maths, Science, English and Art. Canva Education Library: More than 5,000 new free classroom resources across Maths, Science, Art and Design curriculums.

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

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Bolstering the technological advances necessitated by COVID-19 imperatives, the initiative’s primary purpose was to build knowledge on VR and encourage a multipronged approach in teaching and learning to enhance curriculum conceptualization and the entire education life cycle.

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