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Why I Believed Edtech Could Save My School — and How It Failed Me

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It wasn’t that I didn't value, cherish and miss the face-to-face interactions I had with my students, but because I naively assumed that my more reluctant colleagues would see the light and finally embrace edtech. Are we just educational luddites or has the edtech revolution fallen short of its promises ?

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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Scrawled across a form, the advice came from a group of 12 year olds at a mindfulness retreat hosted at a school near MIT. Not an ideal conversation right after sessions on mindfulness, but the husband-and-wife researcher duo did take away two key lessons from the students’ candor. . Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal, a pair of Ph.D.

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Using Robotics to Support Sustainability

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By Devin Partida STEM educators have numerous tools at their disposal to keep students engaged with technology. It’s necessary in a tech-driven world, where students crave modern interactivity to maintain their attention and process concepts.

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FREE STEM Resources with Chris Woods

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This article is based on the CoderZ podcast, EdTech MixTape and has been edited for clarity. STEM can seem like such a big challenge for teachers and school leaders alike. We all want students engaged in meaningful, hands-on learning. I teach at a brand new Spanish English dual language school with a small staff.

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How Robots Can Be Used in Autism Therapy

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By Shannon Flynn People are increasingly interested in how robots can help humans. From manufacturing facilities and complicated surgical procedures to preventing loneliness among older people and other isolated individuals, the possibilities are endless.

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How Crucial Is Artificial Intelligence to the Rise of Ed Tech?

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Parents, students, teachers and administrators had to remain flexible, adjust to virtual learning environments and adopt new digital technologies to facilitate learning. By Ellie Poverly Image Source: www.unsplash.com. Anyone in the education sector knows that new technologies are poised to revolutionize the traditional classroom.

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Using Robotics to Teach About Cybersecurity

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By Devin Partida Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash. Curricula must shift for educators to create a well-informed next generation of cybersecurity analysts. Though robotics is an umbrella containing many branches, K-12 teachers can use robotics to teach cybersecurity more effectively than other subjects.