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Explore Interactive Announces Partnership with Award-Winning Curriculum Developer, EiE

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Its pre-K-8 curriculum encourages all children, including those from underrepresented groups, to see themselves as engineers. In 2020, Forbes named MindLabs the STEM product with the best hands-on and AR integration, and in January 2023, FETC awarded MindLabs first place at Pitchfest in the Immersive Technology category.

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Big Deals: Advanced offerings in curriculum and data analytics, parent communication, remote tutoring, and more

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Discovery Education this month acquired DreamBox Learning , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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She is the director of curriculum for NAF, a nonprofit that is trying to make education more career-focused. But the high turnover rate for teachers and the cadence at which they must prepare students for state testing forces educators to rely on overly procedural materials, she argued.

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What Happens When 'Play' Is Left Out of the School Curriculum

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As I reflected on both definitions, I realized that the unseriousness we associate with playfulness is at the core of why it’s a shunned approach to education. What if we centered playfulness and unstructured time in our classrooms, even when it has nothing to do with the curriculum?

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Show Floor News–Robotics Curriculum for Grades 3-5

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KinderLab Robotics, creator of the award-winning KIBO robot , is expanding its curriculum offerings to serve students in grades 35 with Exploring with KIBO. The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities specifically designed for upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level.

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The Social Institute Expands Curriculum to Educate and Empower Third-Grade Students 

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Educators across the country are experiencing the need to support their students in new ways as they face the ever-evolving world of technology and social media.

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9 ways collaborative learning benefits teachers and students

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 has generated many discussions of how this technology can impact education – both how students learn and how educators teach. Most of the time, this is not true.