Category: EdTech / Coding / STEM /STEAM
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Amazon’s 2022 Toys We Love list includes more than 100 toys and games under $50
Amazon Blog – 9.12.22 Amazon’s toys team spends all year refining the annual Toys We Love list. The result of rigorous research, passionate debate, and, of course, a lot of playing with toys and games, the list features a wide selection of the most innovative, imaginative, and entertaining toys and games of the season, meant…
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9 Fun Learning Games For Grandparents And Grandchildren To Play on Facetime Together
Kinoo Blog – 9.10.22 Are you searching for ways to help your kiddos celebrate Grandparents’ Day with their far-away grandparents? By playing learning games with their grandparents over video chat apps like Zoom or Apple’s FaceTime, they can have loads of fun with their grandparents while learning some important life skills and academic skills. Source: 9 Fun Learning Games For Grandparents…
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Bringing computer science education to 11 million students
Google Blog – 9.1.22 Earlier this summer, I had the chance to meet alumni of The Hidden Genius Project, an Oakland-based international nonprofit that provides Black male youth with training and mentoring in technology, entrepreneurship and leadership. Many of these graduates had no formal computer science education in their curriculum before joining the organization. Thanks to…
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Evo’s Top ELA Lessons | Ozobot
Ozobot Blog – 8.26.22 Summer was a blast, but we’re ready to get back to learning in the classroom! Lucky for you, teachers, we’ve put together a list of our top ELA lessons for every grade to help you get back into the swing of things this Fall. Source: Evo’s Top ELA Lessons | Ozobot
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Glowforge EDU | Take Ideas from Start to Finish
Glowforge YouTube Channel – 6.25.22 (6.24.22) Discover Glowforge for your classroom: https://bit.ly/Glowforge-EDU. Take ideas from start to finish in one class period with Glowforge 3D Laser Printer. The whole class can get involved! Create lessons they’ll never forget. Source: Glowforge EDU | Take Ideas from Start to Finish
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Girlguiding and Google: technology is for everyone
Google Blog – 4.29.22 (4.28.22) Technology has always been a huge part of my life. Growing up in the nineties and early noughties, I can’t remember a time without it. From chunky flip phones and CDs, to newer, sleeker gadgets with all sorts of capabilities, technology has changed rapidly and remarkably in my lifetime alone.…
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After 3pm: Four Square, Coding and Place Based Learning. New Opportunities (and Challenges) in Expanded Learning
Piper Blog – 3.12.22 (3.11.22) It’s 3:00pm at the end of a long school day and the students are spent. They are done with bell- to-bell non-stop academics. It’s time to socialize, play together, and grow. If we’re lucky, it’s time to catch them up on some missed lessons. After-school and summer enrichment programs vary…
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Announcing an expanded literacy portfolio to reach every learner
Microsoft Blogs – 3.2.22 While educators around the world focus on accelerating learning for all, the pandemic continues to widen preexisting achievement gaps, hitting the most vulnerable students the hardest. Digital reading tools can help ensure that all learners can explore their full potential. Literacy solutions designed with the intention of addressing a diverse set of student…
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Meet the first teacher to test Osmo games in her classroom
Osmo Blog – 3.2.22 Jennifer Auten doesn’t remember where she saw the ad asking for volunteers to test out a new educational product but she does remember why she answered: She has a son, who at the time was in middle school, and interested in computer science. Source: Meet the first teacher to test Osmo…
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4 Lessons to Celebrate Black History with Ozobot
Ozobot Blog – 2.4.22 (2.3.22) Every February we celebrate Black History Month. A time to recognize the challenges faced by Black Americans throughout history and into today. It also serves as a reminder that Black history is American history. While commemorating the outstanding legacy and strength of the Black community this month is important, commitment to…