eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The students choose from 26 academic research areas covering STEM, social sciences, humanities, and pre-professional; and each study culminates with an undergraduate-level research paper that showcases students’ originality, articulation, analytical skills, and writing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Problem-solving is a critical part of the learning process, but too often, math curriculum asks students to learn procedures first and then problem-solve–making them separate processes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. In a more recent effort aimed at educational gaming, Games for Change partnered with Endless Network on the STEM Your Game Challenge. So, I joined her team. How did that turn out?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The gaming devices aren’t being treated as contraband anymore, at least not in the 100 K-12 schools that have welcomed Nintendo products into their classrooms this year to help students develop collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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eSchool News

MAY 18, 2023

Simple activities such as building a glider out of paper and plastic straws or designing ways for a plastic diver to stay afloat in a pool of water can do much to spark student imagination. They are also a good method for promoting soft engineering skills like collaboration and communication.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This includes girls, who were already underrepresented in STEM fields before the pandemic added new caretaking responsibilities for many of them that sidelined their education. Students need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to navigate what’s being called “the new electricity.” I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

With Kolibri, we provide a free and open-source learning platform that's really designed for learners with limited digital literacy skills, so there aren’t as many barriers to adoption. But another important aspect is thinking about digital literacy skills and digital rights.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

Neither are those that mention “innovation” and “21st century skills” in their mission statements. Around that time, Ashton read about the high demand for skilled workers in computer science—a growing field that offers high-paying jobs, with a starting salary around $65,000 per year. Trenisha Goslee is a STEM teacher at DPA.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

use tech-empowered learning tools and computational environments, take active roles of designers and builders; and do it in a social setting, with helpful mentors and coaches, or over networks. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. Learning Stories.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

The purpose of this workshop is to help administrators and teachers assess when higher-order thinking skills and student agency factors are (or are not) present in classroom uses of technology by students and teachers. Purpose and objectives.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To better understand implicit linguistic biases in our teaching, we must partner with others, especially students, to gain perspectives on how we can model critical consciousness in curriculum design (Cavazos, 2024). 2024): W ho is and what languages are overrepresented/underrepresented in readings, guest speakers, collaborations?

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design. Five years ago when we were in the initial planning stage for what would become AFSE there weren’t any curriculum offerings that met our goals. Algebra can deliver key skills in problem solving and abstract thinking.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

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. It makes kids think.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

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. Education and Skill for the Fourth Revolution. Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Implementation ideas Curriculum design: Instead of generic prompts like “create a lesson plan on photosynthesis,” a high-impact prompt would be: “Design a 40-minute 6th grade lesson plan on photosynthesis, including a hands-on activity, vocabulary support for ELL students, and one formative assessment question.”

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