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Karim is a kindergarten teacher who’s committed to leading STEM learning opportunities for early education students in the classroom. Realizing the importance and value of STEM in early education, he’ll also be leading a new afterschool program beginning this fall to help introduce children to EarlyEd coding while also aiming to reduce inequities in STEM access.

STEM education is obviously a huge part of 21st century instruction and we know how important these experiences are for students. The hard and soft skills they learn throughout elementary, middle, and high school often help them transition into a future career and, for more and more of them, that career might be very closely related to STEM.

When teaching STEM and coding skills with the Edison Robot, its unique features make it very popular among K-12 educators. This starts with its compact size, which helps make the Edison a true 1:1 STEAM solution in many cases. Some say it’s shaped like a brick and it’s also dense and tough, which helps make it a long-lasting option in

Edpuzzle is a versatile tool that educators can leverage to engage students with videos that resonate with them and enhance their learning. Essentially, with Edpuzzle, teachers can add video to their instruction and integrate it in a new way—by directly adding in their own points, insights, questions, and relevant bits of information for students to interact with as they watch.

Discovering connections through active experiences is a cornerstone of PBL and helps students establish authentic feelings for their causes. As such, knowing the impact these connections can have on students is key for the educators who are leading them. And, this is especially true when they leverage them across the curriculum to connect different subjects.

Starting with the pi-top [4], this revamped DIY device empowers students to design, code, and create within the pi-top platform. It also helps them focus on exploring key physical computing concepts with a sprinkle of project-based learning along the way. Then, there’s the Robotics and Electronics Supersets for building and programming in deeper detail.

There are all sorts of ‘literacies’ that we tie in with 21st century education, from financial literacy to media literacy and, of course, digital literacy. Each of these literacies have become crucial in today’s world for one reason or another. And, of those, digital literacy remains extremely important—not only for students to learn, but also for adults already out in

Cynthia will combine various STEM and real-world elements through PBL, including teaching kids to research organisms, underwater environments, the importance of ecosystems, and more. Besides this research, students will also read nonfiction books, explore the geography in this environment, and collectively design an oceanic ecosystem mural to cap things off.

For much of 2020 and 2021, learning—even STEM activities—happened largely online and, though many students are digital natives, navigating this era of education created plenty of new and unique challenges. Now, as we strive to ensure hands-on STEM experiences are always accessible, kids can code almost anywhere with these tools, which is key over the summer.

Every student receives grades and uses them to determine if they did well enough on an assignment, for the quarter, or to move on to the next grade. Of course, this can also create some pressure on students and sometimes lead to shortcomings in their performance. Plus, a letter grade isn’t always indicative of whether or not a student has