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5 Strategies for Inspiring an Inclusive STEM Culture in Your School

CoderZ

Diversity and inclusion are particularly important in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines, where minority groups are systemically underrepresented. In order to support a diverse educational community, it’s crucial that schools find ways to foster inclusivity across the curriculum.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

Cool Cat Teacher

After moving into the private sector, Penny Reinart led research, design, and development of digital products and professional learning focused on student achievement, educator impact, and organizational growth. Robert obtained their Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boise State University between 2002 and 2005.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

Ask a Tech Teacher

You allow different approaches as long as students achieve the Big Idea or answer the Essential Question. Every time the lesson plan calls for an online tool or research using a search engine or a YouTube video, teachers review/remind/teach how to visit the online neighborhood safely. Differentiation is the norm.

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Is Cue Robot In Education The Next Big Thing? Superb Tips to Use Coding Robot

STEM Education Shopping

One of the biggest benefits of cue robots is their ability to teach physical education through gamification. Whether it’s teaching coding or critical thinking skills, there is no limit to what can be achieved with Cue Robots in education. This requires them to communicate and work together to achieve a common goal.

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How do you build a Learning Space for All? Low Floor, High Ceiling

CoderZ

From Minecraft to Fortnight, the gamification of coding skills has inspired students in underrepresented groups to dive into what was once a more complex and inaccessible field. A method to achieve solutions that benefit diverse groups of people could be training and equipping students from all backgrounds. The “STEM Gap”.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

The results (which ultimately rely on all sorts of specific engineering) are remarkably “human like”. Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Or maybe it’s just doing its complex thing, and we don’t yet know any “human purpose” that this achieves. And that’s where we humans come in.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

His father ’s university engineering studies had been cut short by the Russian Revolution, and he now had a one-man wholesale electronic parts business. And the person he saw there was their “vice president of engineering psychology”—a certain J. His parents were both (Jewish) Russian immigrants (his father was born in St.