Eduporium Blog

Each month, we’re highlighting the efforts of an educator who is effectively using EdTech to empower his or her students. This month, we are featuring Mindy Adamonis, who has been using EdTech tools she’s received through our technology grant program to enhance some science and social studies projects for various students across different grade levels.

The MakeDo system is part of a simple cardboard construction kit line that features a bunch of reusable plastic tools. Although it is very simplistic and super low-tech, the ideas and creation possibilities when weaving MakeDo inventions into education are endless. Teachers could even inspire creative play, critical thinking, and problem solving while kids learn by doing.

Updating your Raspberry Pi is very important for coders and makers and serves as a useful practice if you are hoping to get the maximum amount of features out of your Pi. No matter what version of the Raspberry Pi you are working with, you will want to keep your system updated and you can generally do so with the

There is a lot of hype, information, pause, and even a bit of action being taken when it comes to virtual reality in education. While it’s true that we do not yet know its complete impact on academic achievement, there are some things we do know about VR’s potential in the classroom. Here are some beliefs about VR and reasons

The recipient of our $500 EdTech grant for the month of June is Jean Daley, a librarian from the Erving Public Library in Erving, MA! Jean is committed to helping the kids in her community learn more about and with technology and will now be able to introduce them to coding and learning in new ways!

Summer is here, so if you’re looking to step up your skills while you recharge, you might want to try one of these professional development courses. On our store, we now offer PD from littleBits, Wonder Workshop, and Sphero, so teachers can become masters of using these STEAM tools to create exciting educational experiences for students.

With ISTE 2019 going on this week, we thought we’d take a closer look at one of today’s most popular classroom tools in Seesaw. Seesaw is essentially an application that allows classroom teachers to gain greater insights and organization when it comes to their students’ progress. It’s also free and a great way for students to demonstrate their learning.

Irina Tuule discusses how the roles for the teacher have evolved from what they once were into what they’ve become. Shifts in the resources available to educators and in the ways in which students learn have helped catalyze necessary changes to the very methods teachers use to teach. They’re no longer the sage on the stage and they’re typically not

Curricular content for the Wonder Workshop robots (Dash, Dot, and Cue) and the Root Robot is available on our store—and each offer as great of an educational advantage for teachers as they do for students! Keep reading to learn more about each of these curriculum guides and their specific benefits in the classroom.

For this week’s Eduporium Experiment, we’re playing around with the KEVA Contraptions Set, a pretty big box that’s not high-tech but still offers a high ceiling for STEM learning. KEVA has a few different kits available for students and teachers and the main features of each is the same. Keep reading to learn more about these low-tech STEAM tools.