Inventiveness, if you ask us, is something that goes hand in hand with problem solving and creativity but, despite its incorporation enabling educators to challenge students creatively, it’s oftentimes overlooked. Luckily, inventiveness is key to STEM education and one of the key soft skills students can work on as soon as they enter the classroom.
The Meeting Owl Pro packs plenty of versatility in its compact form. Though under 11 inches in height, it helps educators create enhanced inclusion, drive engagement, and ensure everyone’s voice is heard. It’s actually a three-in-one camera, microphone, and speaker that helps educators unlock active learning in any environment.
Diversity efforts should be created and spread with intent in order to elevate the thoughts, talents, experiences, and opinions of all. As we try to overcome a lack of diversity in the STEM community, we’re continuing to promote its importance across industries, help others discover new points of view, and educate ourselves on causes and possible solutions.
Educators can no longer access the Google Expeditions app, which is how they’d find engaging and immersive lessons, tours, and experiences for students. The good news, however, is that we’ve taken a big step in securing a replacement option. Within the last couple of weeks, we’ve finalized adding the RobotLAB VR Expeditions 2.0 kits to our store!
Over the last couple months, we’ve teamed up with professionals from some of our top partners to bring educators a webinar series focused on addressing social-emotional learning and STEAM education. Throughout this time, we’ve worked with some great colleagues and, now that it’s wrapped up, we wanted to put all the resources in one place.
Valerie is an author, educator, and huge proponent for STEM education. She’s helped lead hands-on STEM experiences for students and helped expand their minds with some of her favorite STEM-related books. Whether it’s hands-on coding or stimulating creative thoughts, Valerie definitely believes in the power of collaboration and community.
To wrap up our back-to-school STEAM and SEL webinar series, we partnered with our friends from the Ozobot Education team. Led by Melissa Toohey and Tara Reynen, we discussed the importance of CS education, creating SEL connections with the Ozobot Evo, and how the Ozobot Classroom LMS helps simplify coding instruction and prep work.
Once you get the Skoog powered on, it’s easy to pair it with a device and get started trying the various sounds. The Skoog 2.0 is incredibly unique, offering students the chance to create musical sounds with tactile touch and even try coding and mixing with different mobile apps. Plus, each of its different colored surfaces allow students to create
With DroneBlocks, STEM educators can build on student interest in flying drones and take it further with drones they can program! DroneBlocks is a free app that is compatible with Chrome, iPad, and Android devices and provides educators with great professional development tools and resources for helping them maximize their drone and coding instruction.
Teaching students about drones, their uses, and how to pilot them is amazing in its own right. When you incorporate the fact that some drones, like the Tello EDU, are programmable, then it takes drone education to a whole new level and the DroneBlocks professional learning content is a great way to get started.
