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October 02, 2017

Environmental Contest

Funding & Recognition

STEM Challenge to Protect Land, Water, and Air

The Lexus Eco Challenge, sponsored by Scholastic and Lexus automaker, is a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) competition related to the environment, which empowers middle school and high school students to create a better world.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Contest Inspiring Students to Build a Better Tomorrow

If you are a public school teacher, enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest to empower students, inspire ideas, and create change. Incorporating STEAM into projects designed to help advance the interests of local communities teaches students critical thinking and, by extension, critical problem solving. Build a brighter future with STEAM by applying online by November 9, 2017, for a chance to win a share of $2 million in Samsung technology!

Algebra App

Mobile Learning

Interactive, On-Demand Algebra Tutorials

Designed by Benciti Technology, the Algebra on Nudge app for iOS and Android presents interactive, on-demand algebra tutorials that include practice problems for students in grades 6–9 to attempt to solve on their mobile devices. The tutorials “nudge” students toward the solution to an algebra problem one step at a time.

Math Community

Professional Growth

Blogosphere of Math Educators

The Global Math Department is a community of math teachers who communicate online via Twitter and blogs, so they use the nickname Math Twitter Blogosphere (MTBoS). Over time this diverse group of teachers (preservice to retired) has grown in number and scope of activities.

OER Resources teacheradvisor.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Lesson Planning with IBM Watson

IBM’s famous Watson computing system is helping to power a searchable database of mathematics open educational resources (OERs) designed for K–5 teachers. The new tool, called Teacher Advisor With Watson 1.0, is open to the public after a lengthy beta-testing period that sought input from state education commissioners, teachers’ unions, school board associations, and more than 1,000 teachers.

Funding & Recognition

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Art Techniques and Media gallery.lib.umn.edu

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Process of Illustrating Children’s Books

Children’s Book Art: Techniques and Media examines the works of more than 65 artists’ materials and processes for creating illustrations in modern children’s book publishing.

Biology App visiblebody.com

Mobile Learning

Lifelike Human Anatomical Models

Medically accurate 3D models and animations of anatomical structures are the hallmark of My Incredible Body, an app that covers the human body systems—brain and nervous, digestive, respiratory, skeletal, urinary, muscular, and circulatory—and the senses.

Racial Diversity

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Textbook Devoted to Racial Literacy

Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi started the student-run organization CHOOSE to overcome racism and inspire harmony through exposure, education, and empowerment. Their organization then led them to collaborate with Princeton University on The Classroom Index, a textbook devoted to racial literacy.

diversitytalkspd.com

Professional Growth

Student-Led, Culturally Responsive Professional Development

An organization called Diversity Talks wants to provide K–12 school districts and higher education institutions student-led professional development on approaching culturally sensitive topics.

History Resources

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Compendium of History-Related Websites

Best of History Websites, hosted by EdTechTeacher, provides quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories: Ancient/Biblical History, American History, European History, Modern History, Military History, Oral History, and Art History.

Makerspace makered.org

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Maker Projects and Workshops

Makerspace Playbook from Maker Media outlines two basic types of maker projects: exploratory workshops where students learn basic engineering and building skills through a sampling of brief activities, and applied projects that involve multiple disciplines and drive students to extend their basic skills.

Digital Citizenship Internet Safety beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Program Developing Digital Citizenship Skills

Google and ISTE have teamed up to create a new way to teach digital citizenship. Be Internet Awesome, a program developed in concert with the Family Online Safety Institute, the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, and Connect Safely, educates youth about digital citizenship in interactive ways, including an online game.

EdTech Grants STEM

Funding & Recognition

Grants to Make Science and Math Engaging

Toshiba America Foundation provides edtech grants to educators to support tech-enhanced STEM learning for students in grades 6–12.

Emerging Technologies

Professional Growth

Report on New and Emerging Technologies for Learning

Each year the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) jointly create the NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: K–12 Education Edition. The report addresses new and emerging technologies for learning and gives the education community at large valuable insights for developing forward-thinking digital plans and strategies to prepare students for their world beyond the classroom.

Augmented Reality myretrak.com

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

4D Mixed Reality STEM Series

ReTrak by Emerge Technologies has created Utopia 360º, a 4D augmented and virtual reality STEM-based education series that consists of three bundles of immersive, multidimensional content: Space Exploration, Animal Zoo, and Dinosaur Experience. Each 4D+ Augmented and Virtual Reality Bundle comes with a Utopia 360° VR headset, augmented reality flashcards, and a designated app full of immersive features.

Shakespeare App gamebookadventures.com

Mobile Learning

Choose-Your-Own Adventure

Author Ryan North has taken Shakespeare’s Hamlet and created a choose-your-own adventure app and book titled To Be or Not To Be. Students can play as Hamlet and revenge the death of Hamlet’s father. They can play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries.

Education Grants

Funding & Recognition

Grants for Contributing to the Improvement of Education

Small Research Grants from the Spencer Foundation support educational research projects with budgets of $50,000 or less. In general, the foundation funds projects that “will contribute to the improvement of education.”

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