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  1. Makerspaces And Mental Health For Students

    Makerspaces And Mental Health For Students
    More than ever before, we’re understanding how makerspace experiences help provide students with emotional benefits in addition to vital academic ones. If today’s students are having any variety of academic, emotional, or any other personal problems, for example, putting them aside and making something is a great way to help them shift their focus and reduce stress.
  2. Best STEM Toys For Building Key Skills

    Best STEM Toys For Building Key Skills
    While STEM learning wasn’t always top priority in the pandemic-disrupted years, some educators continued doing their best to provide students with these opportunities in different learning environments. And, in that time, we have seen how many top classroom EdTech tools also double as beneficial STEM toys for individual exploration. So, here are a few of our favorites.
  3. Eduporium Experiment | Tuff-Bot Robot From Terrapin

    Eduporium Experiment | Tuff-Bot Robot From Terrapin
    When it comes to both programming and power, the Tuff–Bot is among the most powerful educational robotics tools. It has four oversized wheels with high-quality tread that allow it to travel over a variety of indoor and outdoor surfaces. And, though it is similar to the Bee–Bot and Blue–Bot Robots, a key difference is that students can create much more
  4. Tips & Tricks | Marty The Robot V2 From Robotical

    Tips & Tricks | Marty The Robot V2 From Robotical
    Since it’s a Scratch-compatible robot, the Marty V2 is super accessible for students with different CS experience levels. Scratch is a graphical coding language, which means your students don’t necessarily need to have prior experience with coding to program their Marty. Then, there’s its Scratch Jr. and Python compatibility—making the Marty V2 viable in all K-8 grades.
  5. Promoting STEM Diversity And Why It's Important

    Promoting STEM Diversity And Why It's Important
    Whether it’s within today’s business world, the tech world, the educational world, or in the STEAM world, celebrating diversity and inclusion should be the norm. If we have collectively learned anything within the last handful of years, however, it’s that this isn’t universal. In our contemporary STEM and tech jobs, particularly, we still lack true racial, gender, and ethnic diversity.
  6. Eduporium Weekly | Why Are Makerspaces Important?

    Eduporium Weekly | Why Are Makerspaces Important?
    It’s a broad question and one that will elicit different answers from different people. There are lots of reasons as to why K–12 makerspace experiences provide everyone from kids to experienced manufacturers with excitement, value, and intrigue. And, although the reasoning behind why makerspaces are important are extensive, they usually tie back to a particular mission.
  7. Tips & Tricks | Blue-Bot Coding, Instructions, And Lesson Plans

    Tips & Tricks | Blue-Bot Coding, Instructions, And Lesson Plans
    Within the Blue–Bot app, there are two different modes: explore mode and challenge mode. Using either mode, kids can access the same directional buttons they’ve used with the Bee–Bot along with a few new features, like 45-degree turns and digital capabilities. Read on to learn how this slightly more advanced early elementary robotics tool can impact STEM learning.
  8. Rising Resources | Learn Coding With RepLit

    Rising Resources | Learn Coding With RepLit
    Students can access the RepLit coding platform directly from the browsers they prefer. It is free, intuitive, and helps unlock collaborative programming projects in real time. With efficiency a top priority, there’s no setup process required to use RepLit and all students need is a computer or laptop along with an Internet connection to start exploring real text coding.
  9. Eduporium Weekly | Coding Tools For Each Grade Level

    Eduporium Weekly | Coding Tools For Each Grade Level
    From kindergarten through high school, coding helps all students develop real-world hard and soft skills—even if they are not planning on pursuing a computer science career. Plus, getting started isn’t intimidating either and, in fact, introducing programming often involves some extremely simple CS tools in kindergarten before working in those with more STEM possibilities.
  10. Using The Owl Labs Meeting Owl 3 And Meeting HQ

    Using The Owl Labs Meeting Owl 3 And Meeting HQ
    The Owl Labs team originally developed their 360-degree cameras and the software for use outside education—typically for corporate settings. As the pandemic and remote and hybrid learning set in, however, this tech quickly helped to redefine how kids accessed instruction. Jump to today and their virtual meeting tools continue to positively impact student engagement.

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