eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As more and more schools across the U.S. Mount Olive High School (MOHS) in New Jersey first received a MakerBot Replicator 2X as a donation from the Josh and Judy Weston Family Foundation in 2013. Combining the arts with more traditional STEM learning is really where the magic happens.”

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APRIL 18, 2025

Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), is a week-long, overnight camp at USNA each year for students currently in the 7th-10th grades. Searching for Unobtanium Discover the story behind materials, failures, and practice materials characterization methods in the USNA EE labs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school. Existing STEM programs A few years ago, we were looking for a robotics solution for our middle school students to use primarily to get them engaged with engineering before high school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school.

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MARCH 10, 2017

STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Every corner of every life includes STEM, which explains the increasing interest in STEM-educated students to fill the nation’s jobs. Department of Commerce, STEM occupations are growing at 17%, while other occupations are growing at 9.8%.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The future has swooped in early: We’re already seeing drones being added to the mix of teaching tools that educators are using to help bring STEM to life in their classrooms. Drone Competition Creates Fun STEM Opportunity. Schools Adjust Curriculums to Include Drones. Drones Prepare Students for a STEM Future.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

By acknowledging this, the North America Scholastic Esports Federation built high-school-level STEM curricula. As higher education institutions start to pick up on this trend, some universities have created scholarship opportunities for talented students to represent their schools on the digital battleground. .

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. I saw the push for STEM education force students to choose either arts or technology for the slots that remained. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vrbas received $1,000 in cash, $3,000 in Vernier products, and $1,500 toward expenses to attend an upcoming National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA) STEM conference or an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference. Vernier creates easy-to-use and affordable science interfaces, sensors, and graphing/analysis software.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

Zaina Siyed answered that question by creating the FemSTEM Robotics Scholarship Program , a free STEM program for Muslim girls aged 10 to 14. She hung flyers, started a Facebook page and approached mothers in her community—explaining the benefits of STEM education. How did you become interested in STEM learning and robotics?

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. The media tells us there are STEM career opportunities for students in abundance. Industry debates about the STEM jobs pipeline. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

These are middle and high school students who have developed solutions to major economic and social challenges, ranging from health care and transportation to agriculture and the environment. When my children went to school, I went to school also. I became a high school teacher. I have a unique background.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Often summer school programs are designed for credit recovery or filling in learning gaps. The program was opened to all incoming freshmen across the district, with a plan to include additional high school-aged students serving as mentors in the future. But for Santa Fe, inclusion was key.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Games Make Us More Social Companies like Google are finding that SEL skills are more important to students’ success than the mastery of STEM subjects alone. Another study concluded that children in elementary school who played five or more hours of games a week performed better socially and academically than peers who did not.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

“As a contributor to sustainable development, Sofina is proud to support Labster’s vision of empowering millions of students with an engaging STEM learning experience,” said Bertrand Fawe, investment manager at Sofina Group. Science education is traditionally so ineffective that 60% of STEM students drop out.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

Science: Understanding the “How” and “Why” of Brain Development The foundation of Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset stems from neuroscience and research on the brain—and introducing students to the science behind it is a great way to get them involved! Have more text ideas? Please share in the comments!

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Achieve3000 still helps high school students improve literacy, and products like Lexia have improved over time and made it easier for teachers to find and use data. Clearly, a lot has changed over the last decade.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2017

In the rapid prototyping step, students quickly try things out in order to find out what works and learn from failures. In high school, he designed sensors that—once added to the nest—continuously gather temperature readings, saving the biologists a lot of time. What he learned there stuck with him.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

CS teaches the student how to present that failure or success of that operation to the user via a GUI, and how the GUI should look and what the next outcome should be of the interactions between the user, the software and the computing device. More on technology in school. Just erecting structures does not solve a problem such as this.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

They also are more likely to graduate high school on time, are more likely to enroll in 4-year colleges and universities (particularly true for 9th grade low achievers), and persist and graduate from college at higher rates. A high school senior’s view of textbooks and worksheet packets [guest post]. Related Posts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

With over 20 years classroom experience, Tricia is all about “putting the STEAM back in STEM.” Job titles in this category might include Chief Executive Officer of an edtech startup or Entrepreneur-in-residence at a high school. They are excited by new possibilities, and learn from their failures. UNC MEITE website.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It considered placement exam scores but also took into account information from each individual’s high school records, including GPA and the type of diploma earned. Attitude matters, too: Panelists cited research showing that faculty beliefs about intelligence predict how well racial minority students do in STEM classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

I teach a course called Architecture & Design in the new upper school for boys at Annie Wright Schools in Tacoma, Wash. Traditionally, Annie Wright’s high school had been all girls. After we opened a parallel all-boys high school, we launched the class to help galvanize our new learning community.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But even the apparently straightforward STEM activities such as chemistry are complex, under the hood. Everybody who gets into Minecraft, it’s basically constant failure,” Peck said, “as you’re learning how it all works and how to do it.” You can hear dialogue, you get this sort of in-game notebook where you're gathering vocabulary.”

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

Additionally, they got to listen to keynote speakers who shared their successes and failures in the world of technology. The Mouse Design League is a group of high school students that share a common goal: use technology to make a positive impact on the lives of others. The audience listens as a group of students speaks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

It became the way by which BCPS told stories about what had and hadn’t worked, so that other educators, schools and districts could potentially garner tips and insights. A family works together on a digital challenge during Night of Innovation (Baltimore County Public Schools). According to the S.T.A.T.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

CS teaches the student how to present that failure or success of that operation to the user via a GUI, and how the GUI should look and what the next outcome should be of the interactions between the user, the software and the computing device. More on technology in school. Just erecting structures does not solve a problem such as this.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

For example, she says littleBits’ color-coded, magnetized electronic building blocks “eliminate some of the failure and struggle that we actually really want to see in maker-based learning experiences.” Ideally, as the makerspace concept advances, Krummeck says the student's capacity for learning more complex and technical ideas will advance.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Rivard Report that “placing an emphasis on connecting the surrounding community and supporting the student is the missing piece as the nation increasingly looks to community colleges to compensate for a broken K-12 system, skyrocketing tuition costs, and universities’ failure to meet the diverse needs of students in poverty.”

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English Achievement Counselling Secondary Education 141

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

School districts estimate that this fall they will have over 1,000 teaching positions unfilled or terminated across the state as they struggle to pay the bills. Iowa has the top high school graduation rate in the country. Or is Iowa trying to become a low tax, low revenue, low education state like Kansas or Louisiana ?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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