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Twig Education Announces Launch of Twig Create Multimedia Makerspace

eSchool News

With Twig Create, students become authors as they actively construct meaning through contextual storytelling that encompasses discussion, presentation, critical thinking, and teamwork. These lessons are mapped to ELA and ELD/WIDA standards, as well as NGSS, Social Studies, and ISTE standards as appropriate.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

For example, she shared research about how the administrative home of instructional designers on a campus may promote or hinder their ability to support faculty to improve student outcomes and effectively integrate new digital tools.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

eSchool News

“Professions are changing, and we have to prepare students to be designers and problem solvers” so they can adapt to this changing landscape. Bdeir showed a video in which teachers who were involved in the development of the STEAM Student Set discussed their students’ experiences with the kit. “My They’re using words like ‘prototype.’

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How Makerspaces in Schools Help Students Learn to Code

EdTech Magazine

Kids were not only learning about construction and building and architecture, they were pulling out books to research designs, working together, discussing and learning from each other,” Michele Kirschenbaum, the librarian at PS 452, who was awarded a makerspace kit from the Department of Education’s Office of Library Services, told UTF.

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Getting Older Students Excited About Science Class

Teach Hub

Connecting Science to Careers To help pique the interest and inspire older students, you can discuss the various career opportunities science has to offer. Science in the News Discussing current scientific events , such as scientific breakthroughs or medical advances, can help demonstrate science’s relevance to the world.

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It Makes a Difference When Teachers Care

Faculty Focus

They valued discussion about careers, including their academic career at college and career options after college. They also used a unique research design. They also found that this student cohort valued aspects of interactions with faculty that were beyond the scope of the NSSE measures.

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It Makes a Difference When Teachers Care

Faculty Focus

They valued discussion about careers, including their academic career at college and career options after college. They also used a unique research design. They also found that this student cohort valued aspects of interactions with faculty that were beyond the scope of the NSSE measures.