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This new release contains a carefully selected set of Bits designed to help educators discover how littleBits can help students learn and grow through STEAM. The kit allows teachers to get a feel for teaching with littleBits and allows district leaders to observe how well students interact with the technology before committing to purchasing larger kits.

Our friends from the Ozobot team released their highly anticipated Ozobot Classroom learning management system in the last month, providing some new and helpful options for teaching coding with the Ozobot Evo. With this free, web-based platform, any educators with two or more Evo Robots can gain real-time insights that are as exciting to discover as they are valuable.

We love being able to share teacher stories with you and hope this series continues to give educators encouragement to try new things! Now, we’re featuring Kim LeRoy, a librarian from New York, who was one of the educators to receive a raffle prize from us in the past year. She has been running makerspace activities for her students with great

For the first time, the Eduporium team will be exhibiting for the 2020 TCEA Conference! We are obviously really excited for this opportunity and, as we continue to grow and serve educators around the country, we’re excited to keep expanding the list of conferences we attend. Starting out on Tuesday Feb. 4, we will be exhibiting at Booth 220 and

We know that it’s exciting for educators and tech specialists when they hear about upgrades or new features to some of their favorite STEM tools, so, this week, we’re talking about some of the latest updates to some of the technologies on our store, including a few that have to do with some of our favorite big-name brands.

The full title of this presentation is “Combining SEL, STEAM, and Maker Ed tools to increase student learning capacity.” If selected, we’ll be discussing the commonalities that STEAM and SEL efforts share as well as how some MakerEd tools help teachers create these experiences. Specifically, maker tools help teachers connect the heads, hearts, and hands of students.

The RVR is the first Sphero robot that can drive over practically any surface and be programmed and customized to inspire creativity in students. It’s outfitted with an expansion port and on-board power supply that allows students to build onto their robot with littleBits or other third-party hardware, like the micro:bit or Raspberry Pi.

Times have changed and some more traditional teaching methods are not always as effective these days, resulting in children looking for more active learning experiences and ways to tie their learning into their own lives. Any educator who is also interested in something like this should check out the NextLesson platform—the subject of our latest Rising Resources blog.

We have awarded our final $500 EdTech grant of the year (and of the decade!), closing out 2019 with over $5,000 worth of technology contributions to schools and teachers around the country! For the month of December, we’ve awarded our grant to Ellen Peterson, a STEM and technology teacher at the Smithfield Middle School in Smithfield, VA.

The Ozobot Evo offers one of the best introductions for young students to learn the foundations of coding without the need for a screen and can help them build towards learning other programming concepts by first mastering block coding. Read on to see how their class packs make it even better.