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12 lesser-known K-12 STEM education resources

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Integrating STEM into K-12 curricula helps prepare students for a world that increasingly depends on interdisciplinary knowledge. eGFI: Engineering Go For It : Resources, games, and lesson plans to inspire K-12 students about engineering and technology careers.

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It’s Game Over for the Institute of Play. But Its Legacy Lives On.

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The news came as a surprise to educational game developers and researchers, many of whom credit the Institute of Play for supporting and growing the game-based learning industry. The experimental institution, called Quest to Learn , opened its doors in 2009 and became the subject of many books and articles.

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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education

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In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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A Shift Toward Learning Design: What It Isn't, Why It's Needed, and If It's Right for You

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Learning in this sense is not a problem to be solved but one to be explored, unpacked, and addressed. Learning design for them—and for those of us doing this work at Georgetown—embraces the context of learning as well as the learning itself.