We’re excited to sponsor one of the sessions, led by our friend, Jasmine Saab, on Thursday, Oct. 15! Jasmine will be discussing coding in middle school with the Cue and a “DASH” of distance learning and we’ll provide a Wonder Workshop kit to one lucky attendee! The session is for teachers, STEAM specialists, and anyone looking to innovate in distance learning.
This month, we’ve heard from Jeremy Osborne, who’s the Innovative Learning Coordinator for the Berkeley County School District. With a background as an elementary STEM teacher, Jeremy knows all about the kinds of hands-on learning experiences kids want and need and he’s now very much involved in ensuring all students have access to those.
A tool built to amplify both student productivity and retention, ideamapper essentially serves as a visual mind mapping tool by combining the practice of mind mapping with word processing. It’s designed to help your students establish visual connections among all the most crucial curricular concepts and pieces of information they need to know in all areas of the curriculum.
This month, Jim shares his thoughts and experiences with teaching PE remotely and, if not, no worries—you can learn about his creativity in this post as well! Like almost everybody else, Jim had to adapt his teaching style to accommodate distance learning and he definitely found some success with what he tried. Keep reading to learn more about him!
With help from our vendor partners, we’ve been working hard to make sure educators know how to adapt the tech tools they consistently rely on in the classroom into a home learning solution. Each one is different, but the opportunities to include STEM experiences, like coding, engineering, and design, in distance learning are there.
In our latest Rising Resources post, we’re exploring the Edublogs platform, which is an online tool students can use for practicing some key real-world skills like writing, blogging, and written communication. Usually thought of as more of a soft skill, communication is nonetheless extremely important for students as they prepare to enter the workforce in the coming years.
In our newest Eduporium Featured Educator interview, we hear from April Leonard, who serves the students of the Mississippi Heights Elementary school in the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District. She’s done a lot with coding, including using the Dash and Dot and LEGO WeDo with goals of welcoming 1,000 students to a common makerspace in the future.
We’re big fans of the potential that comes with using VR and AR tools in all levels of education and, for this week’s Rising Resources blog, we’re going to try out the Google Tour Creator platform! It’s built to use with the Google Expeditions VR systems, which are among our best sellers, and it’s easy to see why kids love using these tools for immersive learning experiences.
For this week’s Rising Resources post, we took a deeper look at Hatch—an online platform that just about anybody can use to start building or fine tuning their programming skills. The Hatch platform helps make discovering coding concepts easy for kids as young as eight years old and includes various projects and challenges that help them progress.
Tricia has worked with a number of EdTech tools and given the students she coaches a ton of positive experiences. We’re excited to share Tricia’s story and hopefully inspire more educators to take chances with new tech in the classroom and unlock new learning opportunities with technology! Keep reading to learn more!
