It pays to have a friend with a makerspace and, using this connection, we put on a day of PD for 30 teachers at Pinky Inc. in Marlborough, MA. At the day-long workshop, the teachers worked together and designed some creative classroom activities centered on STEM tools, like Sphero, E-Blox, Cubetto, and more!
As the summer ends, you probably don’t need us to tell you all this but it is buying time for classroom teachers, STEM professionals, and many school technology directors. To help move this process along and make it as easy and affordable as possible for everybody, we have created a bit of our own EdTech glossary to help you find what you should be looking for.
With Squishy Circuits, students in preschool and the early grades can enjoy a new kind of interactive learning experience. No longer is tech integration something to fear when it comes to young kids. As long as it’s done purposefully and with the right tools, it can provide a wealth of valuable learning opportunities in early education.
Teachers try every day to bring learning alive, but it hasn’t always been as easy to bring content alive. With zSpace’s amazing augmented reality system, however, all you get is interactive, exhilarating experiences. The content literally jumps off the screen, allowing students to hold, move, and manipulate 3D objects.
Eduporium, a one-stop STEM and Educational Technology solutions provider for teachers has been added to the PEPPM 2018 General Hardware and Software Catalog Contract. PEPPM is a national cooperative purchasing program that is dedicated to streamlining the process of EdTech procurement for educators. Learn more indside.
Cubelets and STEM education just kind of go together. Already awesome at exposing super young students to engineering and programming, the addition of the Cubelets Classroom Packs have added a renewed focus on collaboration! All their kits allow educators to combine coding and engineering in the classroom.
Designed to provide students in second, fourth, and fifth grade with some innovative learning opportunities, teachers were thrilled to use the bundles of new technologies in their classrooms thanks to donations from our team and some of our premier manufacturer partners, including Ozobot, Sphero, Modular Robotics, Microbric, and E-Blox and the results are in!
After six weeks of using various STEM tools in their learning, students will be in the spotlight in less than two weeks, so we thought we’d check in and see how things have been going! Last Friday, we visited six different elementary school classrooms, where students were using different STEM tools—click to see how it went!
Collaboratively created by the Eduporium and Highlander teams, the super unique program has allowed children within three Rhode Island elementary schools to use new STEAM tools in their classrooms. Those technologies? A lot of them were generously donated to these educators by our partners from Ozobot, Modular Robotics, Sphero, E-Blox, and Microbric.
Among the newest STEM tools added to our store is the Airblock drone from Makeblock, an exceptional way for students to explore aviation and dive into long-lasting innovation. They don’t even need any prior coding experience to learn with Airblock—just an eye for exploration and the desire to take charge of their learning!
