Last Thursday, we made our sixth school visit in a series of 10 while one of our team members is on a road trip around the country. So far, we’d visited schools in Vermont, Illinois, two in California, and another in Alabama. This sixth visit occurred at the Socrates Academy Charter School in the town of Matthews, NC as he made his way from Myrtle Beach to Charlotte.
One of the areas that looks likely to gain the most from the power of AI, however, is education. AI has become such a phenomenon in the technology world that colleges, universities, and other institutions have established educational programs surrounding it so that people can learn about it and how to use it to better their lives.
We love being able to share these stories and educators’ accomplishments with you and hope this series continues to inspire all educators to try some new things in the classroom! This month, we’re highlighting Scott Donnelly, an elementary STEM teacher from Pennsylvania, who’s been using EdTech he received through our grant to run coding programs for his students!
Shirley has an extra area within her library designated as a Transformation Space that changes every few weeks. For their next project, Shirley will be challenging her students to build a 9-12 foot wall keyboard using some of the materials she’ll receive from our grant, which include a liter of the Bare Conductive Electric Paint and a Bare Conductive Touch Board Kit!
Designed for students between first and eighth grade, Prodigy offers an interactive experience for students to learn specific math concepts in a fun way and at their own pace. Keep reading to learn more about Prodigy and how it offers a successful, game-based option for teaching math! Keep reading to learn more about it.
Andy is dropping cubes off to 10 educators all across the country and has already made the first handful of initial stops, visiting schools in Burlington, VT, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Yesterday, he finished made the fifth drop-off and visited Jennifer Fischer, who teaches STEAM at the Mary B. Austin Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama!
Kid Spark’s Mobile STEM Labs combine hands-on experience with robust, NGSS-aligned curriculum to inspire lifelong learning and teaching in STEM. Kid Spark’s four mobile STEM labs and detailed curriculum are designed for students in K-8 and are easy to use with or without prior STEM experience and each lab is entirely reusable
The Sphero Mini has been upgraded and now includes a new transparent shell and an educational bundle that unlocks cool, new ways to play and learn! In this week’s Tips and Tricks blog, we’ll talk about the activity kit’s new materials, how they affect the playability of the Sphero Mini, and cover some of the key concepts you need to know.
If you’ve worked in the classroom, attended EdTech conferences, or kept up to date with the latest happenings in the technology world, then there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard of Edmodo. There’s also a pretty good chance you’ve already used it with your students. But, if not, you can learn all about it in this week’s Rising Resources blog!
Our Merge Cube donation tour continued at the beginning of this week as Eduporium’s Andy made the fourth stop on his road trip. After driving down the entire coast of California, he made it to San Diego on Sunday night. Rumor has it Andy left the world-famous San Diego dog beach, where his dog was having a blast rolling in the sand and in the water.
