Coding is a central skill that’s becoming more and more necessary in order for workers to thrive in this increasingly technological era. It’s on its way to (if it has not already) becoming a worldwide language—and an undeniable component of global culture. So, recently, enthusiasm for teaching coding skills in the classroom has grown—a lot—and kids are benefitting.
EdTech has the unique ability to inspire students towards solving problems, spark their undying interest in a particular career or help them improve their community where it needs help most. You just don’t know it yet. Fab labs serve as an ideal way to promote project-based learning and teaching in a way that students have not previously seen.
Whether it’s blended learning, project-based learning or hands-on tinkering in a STEM-centered Fab Lab, modern educational tools have made it easier than ever for kids to become future ready. The goal of learning with technology is as simple as many top classroom products: prepare kids for a tech-filled work while honing key hard and soft skills.
There are so many things that contemporary educators have to account for and many of them—like personalizing learning, teaching coding, and using technology—are still all really new. Luckily for them, we can share a bunch of sound advice for helping to get today’s students more ready to take on tomorrow’s increasingly complex world!
There’s so much that goes into a successful EdTech rollout and not all of it comes from the effectiveness of the products. We’ve outlined how to use technology to create the most memorable learning experiences possible and who teachers should connect with in order to become tech teaching experts! Explore that and more in this week’s post.
In today’s world of education, there are certain skills that all students must learn and certain ways of learning that many classroom educators feel are necessary to accomplish those goals. Though it has often been compared to a spectator sport for much of, well, forever, learning isn’t an experience that is best carried out from the sidelines, especially in today’s climate.
Just like us regular people, teachers often make New Year’s resolutions, too. They could be something like spending more time on a particular topic or even taking more time for yourself! We hope you resolve to use more technology in the classroom to engage kids in more meaningful learning but, if that’s not your forte, here other suggestions!
Technology in the classroom allows creativity to flow, but can we actually teach kids to instinctively be creative? Is there a final exam teachers can give to determine their creative levels? In order to be as creative as possible, everyone, including students, needs to be open to new experiences and methods of carrying out old ones.
Our world is changing—something that’s readily apparent to a lot of us but others are often shocked by just how much employees throughout today’s workforce need technology and rely on a super specific set of skills. So, as early on as elementary school, teachers are now exposing their students to basic coding in STEM classes and kids, generally, respond favorably to it.
The constant reiteration of the importance about “STEM this” and “STEAM that” has led to the revitalization of hands-on education in many of our K-12 school systems across the country. While many of these movements—in education or otherwise—die out after their trendiness loses appeal, the Maker Movement, it appears, should be one of them that sticks around.
