Earth Day is the perfect holiday to apply the concepts of STEAM education and project-based learning. After all, the central goal of each opportunity is for your students to apply creative and innovative thinking while working to solve real-world community problems. Plus, Earth Day classroom activities can help all educators highlight the critical importance of going green.
The EdTech purchasing process should be enjoyable, informative, stress-free, and as affordable as possible. Our team specializes in helping make all of these things happen by offering a one-stop online STEM store, free consultation, and a hassle-free quoting process to make your purchases as smooth as we can by helping educators identify key focal points.
The term artificial intelligence typically refers to the computer systems that are capable of efficiently completing tasks that should normally require the use of human intelligence. As educational leaders continue exploring some of the various avenues—popular or not—of bringing it into classrooms, the hope is that it extends educator efficiency and helps student achievement.
Here are the most sought-after STEAM tools of the year—tools that helped the Eduporium family teach everything from magical makerspace moments to amazing coding creations. The Ozobot and Bee-Bot helped to foster CS skills, while Glowforge’s laser printers enlivened makerspaces, Expeditions 2.0 put kids right in the action, and the micro:bit V2 made learning flexible.
With the Blooket online review game, classroom teachers can transform an assessment with simple academic challenges, and help boost retention for students in any educational environment. Blooket also helps enhance their engagement and empowers K-5 instructors to facilitate authentic learning experiences in the classroom. So, this week, we’re telling you all about it.
The year 2023 is over, but those educational movements that shaped it will continue to impact students in 2024—and beyond. Advances across many key areas, like artificial intelligence, stood out among big EdTech trends for 2023, while personalized learning, cybersecurity, and teacher burnout were also big, and drones, 3D printers, and VR came more into focus.
Since Microsoft is, of course, one of the worldwide leaders in cutting-edge technology, it should come as no surprise that they also have technologies designed for younger children to use in the classroom. Near the top of that list is this Immersive Reader tool, which helps make written, digital content more accessible for all kids and simultaneously boosts their grasp of it.
Students could use the Narrator AR app on tablets and mobile phones and it is available on both the iOS app store and Google Play store. Drawing on the immersive power of AR, this platform helps teachers to create a unique and engaging experience as kids will see the words, letters, and sentences literally jump off the screen and start to recognize the right formations.
There’s a good chance you might have already heard of Wakelet, the super popular online organization tool that’s used by a bunch of K-12 teachers. If not, Wakelet is a free service that helps teachers save, organize, and share online content with children and parents. Beyond that, however, its built-in features help make content curation and instruction even easier.
For this Rising Resources post, we explored the classroom communication app known as ClassDojo. It is quite popular and one of the main reasons it continues to be such a valuable classroom resource is that it really enables educators to move away a from one-size-fits-all model. They can even use it to share content with students, improve classroom culture, and more.
