Since it’s Memorial Day Weekend, we thought we’d focus a little bit on how teachers can help mold independent learners with STEM activities in the 21st century classroom. Enjoy—and remember, it’s almost summer! Keep reading to learn more about fostering independent learning environments and inspiring students.
Few modern EdTech tools can effortlessly mix a love for art with technological proficiency, but the Jamstik is able to do that and more! With its Bluetooth capabilities, the jamstik links with any iPad or iPhone and interactively teaches kids to play the guitar while enhancing their overall technological proficiency.
The Maker Movement is incredibly powerful for something that just got its (official) start only a few years back. It’s completely user-driven and becoming a cornerstone for success in the 21st century. MakerEd is a form of STEM Education that combines and embodies the spirit of acquiring necessary knowledge through hands-on trial and error.
At Eduporium, we search all over the world to try to locate the most useful, innovative, and exciting new technologies to deliver to the K-12 academic community. If products can boost creativity and spark a new enjoyment of learning, we’ll want to tell you all about them! With that said, let us present SpatialNote, a brand new space-related way to
Could you type an essay blindfolded? Maybe, but even with all the hours you spend sitting on a swivel chair and punching keys, there’s almost no chance you could get through, say, a two-page paper scot free if you’re not looking at the text. What if you were asked to type the same two-page essay on your mobile phone? Could
For many teachers, using educational technology in the classroom is the norm. For the vast majority of today’s educators, however, it’s a headache-inducing afterthought. The fact is, however, that using technology to teach necessary concepts in a modern fashion has its advantages. The issue isn’t really with what teachers teach, but more with how they teach.
Just like us regular people, teachers often make New Year’s resolutions, too. They could be something like spending more time on a particular topic or even taking more time for yourself! We hope you resolve to use more technology in the classroom to engage kids in more meaningful learning but, if that’s not your forte, here other suggestions!
Innovation is often born out of creativity. And creativity, more so than ever, is the driving force that opens the door for innovation. Someone who is innovative uses all available tools and technologies to bring about some kind of improvement. In education, that innovation has been cemented as using technology as a tool to enhance learning.
In this section you are going to do a questionnaire survey. You can choose a teacher at your school, at least two students who come to school using different methods and two adults in your neighborhood (this may include your parents). Tell them this is about a report you are creating about transportation and your city.
This week, we’ll take a look at teacher-student feedback in the digital age, why it’s ok to fail in a blended learning classroom and how you can create tomorrow’s classroom right now! So, now what do you do? As long as you’ve covered all your bases—from researching your tech to building relationships with your students—you’ll be in pretty good shape.
