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Guest Blogger: Introducing Students to Careers in Robotic Engineering
According to a study from the McKinsey Global Institute, robots may replace human workers in as many as 800 million jobs by 2030. Over the next 12 years, there will be higher demand than ever before for robotic engineers. After all, someone needs to design these robots and be able to fix them if the...
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4 Inspiring Women: The power of these Girls in STEM
This shouldn’t even be a subject of discussion, but sadly it is. We should not be making any differences between men and women that made STEM their way to look and interact with the world; actually, we should be speaking about people and not about boys or girls. Since not everybody thinks this ...
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Guest Blogger: How 3D Printers Can Help Students Solve Everyday Problems
In the past several years, 3D printing has seen a massive shift in its applications and public perception. While it was once perceived as a mere gimmick, it now sees regular use in many industries around the world. As teachers, we need to prepare students with the real-world skills necessary to comp...
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3 inspiring lectures about STEAM education and EdTech
We’re constantly looking for sources of information and inspiration to be better prepared at the moment to give a class. As educators, we’re obligated to learn from others as much (or even more) than the amount others learn from us. Today, we want to share with you 3 extraordinary lectures on...
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Guest Blogger: Creating a STEAM-Based Makerspace in Your Classroom
Educators know that the modern, relevant classroom is an evolving classroom. For the most part that’s a good thing, because it signals that changes are being made so that students are equipped for the future. As we’ve noted before, “We are facing the 4th industrial revolution: A revolution ...
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Teachers as role models: The story of an American teacher in China
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien I understood from my earliest teaching days the importance of my role in the classroom not just as an educator, but as a female role model. While teaching and coaching debate in America, I regularly had students emulate me both academically an...
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Should We Take a Second Look at How We Teach These Days?
Enjoy part I of a three-part series written by our featured guest writer, Maria Anna van Driel, of the Next Truth magazine and podcast www.nexttruth.com From Wikipedia to a novel invention In my article “The Very First Letter of STEM is Science” I wrote, ‘Nowadays, young p...
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4 Teachers doing unique things to engage their students
There’s no doubt, it is hard to keep our students engaged in class. We’ve written a few articles in the past about things to do to keep students engaged in a STEM class, but the fact that the theory is far from reality is crystal clear. Today, we want to think outside of the box and invite yo...
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6 amazing STEM webinars for teachers
When you find the right partners to make this world a better place, that mission becomes easier to achieve. For the past year, we have been sharing knowledge, tools and recommendations with teachers, worldwide, with one very specific goal: Improve the current educational system with innovation, form...
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5 Remarkable Collaborative Learning and Formative Assessment Tools
In education, personalized learning is the key to success. Collaborative learning and a more social pedagogic processes in the classroom becomes crucial in a society that each day has less hierarchies and where leadership is being applied more by groups and less by individuals. Since we deeply be...
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