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This tech academy is using project-based learning to close the STEM gap

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School leaders focus on closing the technology gender gap by teaching female students to code and build websites and apps. “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning. We try to guide students through interdisciplinary work.” ” Next page: How industry partnerships target the STEM gap.

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

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In order to provide a rich, robust, and inclusive curriculum for youth, STEM needs to evolve to STEAM. And in many ways, that transition is already taking place as technology and engineering drive the next wave of art and creative expression. Here’s why creativity is essential in today’s curriculum.

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Mesa Public Schools and S.A.V.E. Consortium Name CoderZ as Approved Vendor

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The suite includes scaffolded and leveled, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support STEM, computer science, coding, robotics, and SEL in engaging ways, and to embrace all learners from any and every background. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. That’s the engineering side of my brain.

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Solving for X and Y in a School Focused on Math and Computer Science

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On the surface it appeared simple enough, mathematics and computer science should be natural partners—the low hanging fruit of interdisciplinary computer science education. For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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They entered the program with a real desire to focus deeply on what it meant to have a more effective personalized learning experience in math—including everything from curriculum design and the use of technology to the roles of teachers and students in the classroom and the adoption of “passion projects.”

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