Circly is characterized as a visual organizer platform that helps create easier collaboration. It’s free and can help all students organize and visualize ideas or help educators collaborate and learn with peers. Learn why we chose to explore Circly in the latest installment of our Rising Resources blog. Keep reading to learn more about it!
For educators, the last year of instruction has been extremely tough physically and mentally. Not only was everything upended, they’ve had to learn new instructional techniques, deal with not seeing students, and try to jam everything in to short class meetings. That’s not all they’re dealing with, however. Read on for more on how PD has evolved.
Flipping the classroom helps students move more at their own pace—only taking the time they need to learn something. It also helps them utilize their teachers or peers for help while they’re engaged in their work as opposed to putting it down, forgetting about it, and then asking the next day. But, how could flipped learning help in remote settings?
Comprised of three different robots, Milo, Veda, and Carver, RoboKind’s solutions are designed to help students with learning differences meet their academic and social goals. Starting by empowering educators to help students foster social connections, these robots can ultimately be used to aid student emotional well-being and more.
Teachers in remote learning are now regularly picking and choosing what they will focus on in their remote instruction. Since there is simply not enough time to cover all they normally would, prioritizing the most important items has become the norm. But, how are these priorities determined?
While not impossible, planning for STEM in remote or hybrid learning does present obstacles for educators, including finding the time to fit it into class meetings, creating lesson plans, and getting materials to students. Online STEM platforms have provided one solution, but, in order to replicate that classroom experience, it can become tricky.
As education continues to be delivered at least partly outside of the classroom, different types of distance learning continue to be explored. So, whether you’re teaching fully remotely, in a hybrid model, live with students all the time, or trying out asynchronous learning, we’ll share some suggestions for how it could be improved.
Though it’s ideal, having a physical robot is not always an option for students learning outside of the classroom and that’s why these various virtual resources have become so important. Among those is the Shape Tracer game from Ozobot, a cool, Web-based platform students can use to code a virtual Ozobot right on their screen.
For thousands of children, physically attending school in person is the only notable way they can connect with others. It may be because they’re living in very rural areas without guaranteed Internet access or they may struggle with economic limits that prevent them from paying for an Internet plan but these newly illuminated inequities in remote learning aren’t really new.
Joining eight previous STEM grant recipients for the calendar year of 2020, we have presented September’s award to Michellea Millis, an administrator with the BrownSTEM afterschool program that’s based in San Antonio, TX. She works with underrepresented African-American and Latinx students to help create STEM experiences and we’re excited to award her this grant!
