Diversity in STEM, News in the Digital Age, Shakespeare in VR & More

Harvard Summer Institute for PreK–2 Educators

In Deeper Learning for All, participants will experience and learn how to create the conditions for deep and powerful learning that prepares all students for the demands of the 21st century.

March 01, 2019

Funding & Recognition

Grant to Enhance Students’ Interest in Chemistry

Since 2008 more than 600 high school chemistry teachers have received ACS–Hach High School Chemistry Classroom Grants from the American Chemical Society to support ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development, and reveal the wonders of chemistry.

Literacy Resources

The International Literacy Association 2019 Conference

How can educators and administrators create the environment students need to reach their full potential in the classroom and throughout their lives? By infusing literacy in every aspect of education! The ILA 2019 Conference is your chance to learn how to create and grow a thriving culture of literacy in your school, district, and community—one that not only inspires and empowers students and teachers, but also sets them up for greater success. ILA 2019 offers two full days of professional learning on the topics you want, delivered in a variety of styles; two optional additional days of deep-dive learning into children’s literature and today’s hottest literacy topics; and a well-rounded program of research-based and peer-reviewed sessions to help you empower your students and create an inclusive learning community. Visit ilaconference.org to register.

incubatoredu.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Entrepreneurship Curriculum—From Product to Pitch

A program of the nonprofit Uncharted Learning, INCubatoredu for high school youth blends an entrepreneurship curriculum with an experiential approach to traditional business subjects. In the yearlong course, students have the opportunity to create and fully develop their own product or service.

moatboat.com

Mobile Learning

Creation Engine That Brings Ideas to Life

What if students could bring their ideas to life by just saying them out loud? Using the Moatboat app for iOS, students speak, and the app does what they say. Students can give characters things to do with more than 1,000 objects and actions across 15 unique environments.

pbs.org

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Profiles of Diversity in STEM

Helping students see the possibilities of careers in STEM fields means providing them with diverse role models. PBS LearningMedia has made a list of some of the top black scientists, engineers, inventors, and mathematicians, along with media resources to help teachers to bring their work—and stories—into the classroom.

conservethesound.de

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Online Museum Conserving the Sounds of Gadgets

Can your students recognize the sound of an 8mm film projector or the cadence of a rotary phone’s clicks? Conserve the Sound is an online museum that aims to protect the sounds of gadgets so that future generations will know what a dial telephone sounded like, for example, or an analog typewriter, 56K modem, nuclear power plant, or even a cellphone keypad.

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Mobile Learning

Coding Adventures for Beginners

Grasshopper is an app by Area 120 for both Android and iOS users who want to learn to code with JavaScript. The app was created by one of Google’s experimental project teams.

livingoceansfoundation.org

Funding & Recognition

Art Competition Encouraging Preservation of the World’s Oceans

The Science Without Borders Challenge engages students around the world in promoting the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world’s oceans and aquatic resources. The challenge is sponsored by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation to get students and teachers interested in ocean conservation through various forms of art.

Digital Learning • Learning Support

3D Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company has taken Shakespeare’s most iconic play to the cutting edge of immersive storytelling in Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit, using the power of virtual reality (VR) to plunge viewers into Hamlet’s harrowing journey. This cinematic 360-degree adaptation explores new dimensions of the photoplay medium by casting the viewer as the Ghost of Hamlet’s dead father.

Professional Growth

Game-based Approach to Making Budgeting Decisions

While educators use a variety of games in the classroom for learning, similar game-based approaches are increasingly finding places outside of the classroom among adults who are responsible for and concerned about education. Budget Hold ’Em from Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, is one such game.

designmate.com

Mobile Learning

Life Cycle of a Plant in AR

Created by Designmate for iOS, Plantale is an engaging learning app that takes students on a journey of a plant’s life. Using the Plantale app, students can explore a sunflower plant’s life cycle and reproductive cycle in augmented reality (AR).

Funding & Recognition

Competition Connecting World History to Today’s World

The World Historian Student Essay Competition, sponsored by the World History Association (WHA), is open to K–12 students enrolled in public, private, and parochial schools, and those in home-study programs. Each competitor will submit an essay that addresses the issue: In what way has the study of world history affected my understanding of the world in which I live?

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Online Course Focusing on News Literacy Skills

Founded in 2008, the News Literacy Project (NLP) helps students and teachers discern fact from fiction in the digital age. In May 2016, the project launched Checkology, an online interactive course that helps students understand and appreciate the role of the press, introduces them to different types of news—from entertainment to opinion to branded content—and teaches them the critical thinking skills they’ll need to spot misinformation.

Professional Growth

Guidelines for Developing Computational Thinking Competencies

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has developed a set of guidelines to help educators integrate computational thinking across the curriculum. The effort is part of an overall goal of enhancing science, technology, engineering, and math instruction.

rootrobotics.com

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Educational Robot Fostering 21st Century Skills

Designed by Root Robotics, Root is a fun and easy-to-use educational robot that teaches coding, creativity, and problem-solving skills to students, from prereaders through high school. The robot bumps, hears, moves, draws, scans, climbs, reacts, and sees, helping students learn, play, and explore using their imagination.

Mobile Learning

Interactable World Using AR

eureca by imerzon provides deep learning experiences with augmented reality (AR) by placing animals, shapes, objects, and much more around users’ environment. For example, the app provides an interactable world using AR in which a child can play with an apple or a ball while he or she learns to identify the object.

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