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CoderZ Named 2020 Tech Edvocate Award Winner for Best Coding App or Tool

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CoderZ , an online learning environment where students learn robotics and STEM by coding virtual robots, has been named a 2020 Tech Edvocate Award winner in the Best Coding App or Tool category. CoderZ enables them to acquire computational thinking, problem solving skills and learn coding as a life skill.

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In the marketplace: Minecraft Education Edition, apps for ELLs, digital citizenship, and more

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Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners. subsidiary.

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The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

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She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. She recently moved to D.C.

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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

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In fact, the word “curriculum,” whether followed by “writer” or designer,” appears to resonate relatively strongly with viewers. Take the five most viewed job postings from last year: “Curriculum designer” at NoRedInk. Curriculum solutions designers job” at Cengage Learning.

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The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor

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A STEM curriculum introduces students to real-world engineering. Berrien Springs Public Schools in rural Michigan started off with a modest enough goal: to add an engineering component to their curriculum in order to draw out-of-district students to their schools and to meet anticipated state standards.

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Independent Study Finds that Amplify Science Has Significant Positive Impact on Student Learning

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As the Lawrence’s first curriculum designed to address three-dimensional science standards, Amplify Science reflects state-of-the-art practices in science teaching and learning. With studies like this one, districts can look at real impacts on educators and students when selecting curriculum for core subjects.”. About Amplify.

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

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They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning. They invited all of these stakeholders to be a part of a large team that came together to design a new middle school to be opened in 2018.

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