ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. Specifically, researchers at Opportunity Insights found that relationships with higher-income students dramatically improved low-income students’ chances of upward mobility in adulthood, even more than traditional success metrics like school quality.
STEM Discovery Education
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Discovery Education is dedicated to creating dynamic digital learning environments that prepare today’s students for the world of tomorrow. Often, stories of our work in the community are highlighted in the media. Read the top August DE news stories to see how we're impacting schools and students around the world. Discovery Education Buys Minneapolis eLearning Company, Pivot Interactives.
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ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Edtech is ubiquitous in classrooms today, especially considering that the COVID-19 pandemic did something that previously seemed impossible. It thrust virtually every school into the deep-end of edtech, starting with remote learning. When it comes to products that teachers are using to buoy student success, the stakes are high. Congress is earmarking millions in relief to combat COVID-19 learning loss and everyone—from students to teachers to administrators —is feeling frayed as schools try to g
Get Caught Engineering
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Classroom parties are a special memory of the school year. Hosting a STEM Party. Celebrating the holidays with a classroom party is a tradition in most elementary schools. Typically, the parties would mostly revolve around food and a possible craft or movie. The food generally consisted of cupcakes, candy and sweet drinks and, by the end of the day, our students were about vibrating as they left our classroom to go home.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Even as some current teachers are leaving the education workforce—or, at the very least, considering it —plenty of would-be teachers are opting for other career paths, creating a worrisome landscape where there are neither enough teachers right now, nor expectations to recover the dearth in the future. This is partly a pandemic consequence, but also the result of a years-long decline in the attractiveness of teaching as a profession.
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ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
When the educational services company Zovio sold its online program management business to the University of Arizona Global Campus in August, it wasn’t a shock. Zovio’s business model is seen by many industry-watchers as a hold-over from the University of Phoenix era, before companies like 2U pioneered the idea of helping colleges both run online programs and finance their creation in exchange for a cut of tuition.
Robot Lab
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The implementation of the lab will provide entrepreneurs with real world experience in robotics and artificial intelligence. September 1st, 2022 – San Francisco, CA – The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation (“Levan Center”), in partnership with RobotLAB , the leading educational robotics company, partnered to build an artificial intelligence and robotics lab.
Futurum
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates. Published: Understanding prehistoric climates is key to understanding how our climate might change in the future and Antarctic ice cores provide fundamental information that forms the basis for much of this knowledge. Dr Bess Koffman , from Colby College , Waterville, Maine, in the US, studies the dust trapped in Antarctic ice, resolving where it came from and how it got there.
STEM Sport
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.
Basic-Mathematics
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
See what the formula for power is and how it is defined in relationship with the work done.
Magic EdTech
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Classrooms are changing dramatically with the implementation of education technology. These changes impact how students learn. With the surge in eLearning products in the market, a proper evaluation of education products has never been more critical. An article by Stream states that 56% of students worldwide prefer that instructors enable them to use their devices in the classroom.
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