eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

National K-12 science education experts contribute ideas and inspiring guidance for educators preparing to return to school and teach hands-on science during uncertain times. Three of the best national K-12 science education leaders offer their expertise and ideas to help guide districts during these uncertain times.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This standalone data-collection platform takes the award-winning LabQuest interface and enhances it with a robust set of new features and functionality for middle school, high school, and college students to use during classroom, laboratory, or field investigations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

COPENHAGEN and BOSTON – April 6, 2022 – Labster ( www.labster.com ), the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and interactive science, has raised $47 million in additional funding to support massive growth opportunities worldwide. Science education is traditionally so ineffective that 60% of STEM students drop out.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Science Journal. Click here to read the full app review.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. These are important skills for students to master, not least because of the growing demand for science and STEM professionals.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. Science, technology, engineering, and math are broad but dynamic subjects that contain innumerable and specific learning concepts. What are 3 benefits of STEM?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

At campuses that teach the subject, computer science is often offered as an elective at high schools in California. But now, for prospective University of California students, that course can count as a science requirement on college applications, too.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The latter allows students to practice skills in demand in the modern economy. This past June, the exhibitor floor at the 2017 ISTE Conference provided an inspiring snapshot for the rise of skills-based learning options and environments across the American educational landscape. Why Should You Consider Starting a Makerspace?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

  – 3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) named Sirish Subash, a 9 th grader at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Snellville, Georgia, the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. Institutions are using virtual reality programs to immerse students in laboratory simulations. But for very good reasons, there’s still a limit to the kind of hands-on science coursework that colleges can, ahem , deliver remotely.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2016

Science isn’t about memorizing facts and formulas. Each Innovations Lab includes a science lab space with mobile furniture, a robotics court, netbooks, and SPARK handheld science learning devices. So they asked all the local school districts to emphasize these types of technology tools in high school science labs.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2018

The school is just one of many experimenting with replacing traditional laboratory classes with VR labs. Google has partnered with science education company Labster to create an online biology degree program with virtual reality labs. But with the flourishing of activity around virtual reality science labs, are they effective?

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

Having students create and work with robots offers them a range of skills, she said, noting that the district once participated in a regional tournament through NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena but that the program ended a few years ago. “It’s really fun once you actually learn what to do.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Despite tech explosion, schools are not seeing a boon in available computer science, coding courses. Yet the large majority of California’s public high schools don’t offer dedicated computer science or computer programming courses, according to a Sacramento Bee review of teacher assignment data from the California Department of Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Showing students that there are individuals just like them in these high-profile careers has never been easier,” said Tamille Wilson, Fourth Grade Math and Science teacher at Cobb County Schools. In 2022, the Coalition welcomed the following new members Charles River Laboratories, Cox, Inc., Nevada Gold Mines, and PepsiCo Foundation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Antonio’s mother had been in touch with his science teacher and was brave enough to allow her son to hatch praying mantis eggs in their basement as part of his research. Antonio was just one of the memorable students in my first science research class at Christ the King Regional High School, a parochial school in Queens, New York.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In contrast, AI centers, like the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have largely focused on high-end, specialized training for graduate students in complex mathematical and computer engineering fields. The role of these institutions has been to broadly train undergraduates for living in a democratic society.

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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. The importance of identifying and instructing students at any grade who cannot reach fluency and comprehension because of gaps in foundational skills cannot be overstated.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. programs that are interdisciplinary from the ground up, such as those sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program. They sure do!

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

Matt’s Maker Space is a place where kids can explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) through experiential and hands-on learning. Science is all about experimentation. Take the World’s Largest Matt’s Maker Space for example, which will be hosted by Mt. Lebanon School District in Pennsylvania on Thursday, May 16.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2020

About two decades ago, the sciences were not so popular among younger generations. But, the importance of sciences and technologies has grown; that’s why professionals in certain fields have become headhunters’ “targets.” STEM is an acronym that stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Another fact: The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory organized the first official esports video game tournament in 1972, which brought players together to battle in a sci-fi rocket combat game called Spacewar. Through esports, students learn digital citizenship, team building, leadership and life skills aligned with academic areas.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

Congress is proposing an innovative approach to building the federal technology talent pipeline for computer science roles, one that should be exciting for schools and students. Source: US Army JROTC website Young people skilled in technology are in high demand. On June 14, 2019, Reps. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Tx.), Rob Bishop (R-Ut.),

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. We’ve really learned that the most important thing is to keep people motivated,” says Bozena Pajak, director of the learning science team at Duolingo, a language learning app developer. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

By working together in an open science approach the network aims to create a comprehensive policy stack supporting AI’s responsible, secure integration in K-12 education by involving experts from various fields. Success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) demands keeping up with the latest tools and techniques.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Wilson: an influential biologist and conservationist who promoted citizen science initiatives such as the “School of Ants” Margaret and Geoffrey Leaney: husband-and-wife team who developed methods for rearing insects Are you interested? This is where citizen science comes in.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

District Superintendent, Ulster BOCES CTE and career readiness As an engineering teacher who runs a hands-on laboratory class, I like to start the year off by exposing my students to all the industry equipment and industry-certified credentials that they will have access to throughout the year. — Jonah M. Schenker, Ed.D., Airplane Kit.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Last March, I was appointed as Director of the Institute of Education Sciences. For starters, many teachers view research as a search for bright shiny objects pushed by administrators without adequate attention to the needs and skills of teachers. Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000. That’s something that has to change.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Nearly 900 science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty members teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels were surveyed in October 2020. But the top “unique barrier” to STEM online instruction, compared to non-STEM disciplines, was “inadequate online laboratories,” at 72 percent. Not so fast.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another. Science [standards] followed that idea. This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

With the CCC Maker Initiative’s focus on preparing students for science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) careers through hands-on, content-rich design projects and relevant curriculum, the statewide network will be positioned as a strategic educational pipeline for high-value jobs. As part of the. Makerspace: FabLab.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

A law major at the Macau University of Science and Technology, Jiang Dong said most of her courses have been live-streamed via Zoom. I’m still missing one credit for physical education class, and two for my science and technology requirements,” Jiang said. “We Obviously, the library and laboratories are not available as well.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Digital Storytelling Tools: Platforms like StoryJumper or Book Creator enable students to create and share digital stories, enhancing literacy skills, creativity, and digital communication abilities. Coding programs and robotics kits introduce hands-on learning, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for the future.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

If education researchers hope to see more of their findings influence everyday learning and instruction—and they desperately do—then their best bet may be to encourage education technologists to hone their design research skills.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Early approaches in the field of generative AI are situated within 1950s-60s computer science and AI research and “aimed to mimic human expertise to generate outputs” (ChatGPT, 2023). The Christian Science Monitor. Texas professor flunks students after ChatGPT claims it wrote their papers.” The Houston Chronicle. link] ) O’Brien, M.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The reflective educator should have self-acceptance with a desire to improve, patience with themselves and their students, the organizational and time-management skills to incorporate reflection, and the ability to self-analyze and identify their strengths, weaknesses, goals, and challenges (Leon-Henri, 2020). References Brookfield, Stephen.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The reflective educator should have self-acceptance with a desire to improve, patience with themselves and their students, the organizational and time-management skills to incorporate reflection, and the ability to self-analyze and identify their strengths, weaknesses, goals, and challenges (Leon-Henri, 2020). References Brookfield, Stephen.

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