STEAM

This new release contains a carefully selected set of Bits designed to help educators discover how littleBits can help students learn and grow through STEAM. The kit allows teachers to get a feel for teaching with littleBits and allows district leaders to observe how well students interact with the technology before committing to purchasing larger kits.

Google Expeditions has become a technology staple in many schools due to its ability to transport students to another location without them ever stepping foot outside the classroom. Students can become immersed on a guided tour through multiple locations or historic events, like The French Revolution and a lot more!

As we do at the beginning of every month, we’re highlighting the work of an innovative educator who has consistently used EdTech to empower his or her students with enhanced learning experiences. This month, we’re featuring Laura Luker, a teacher from Massachusetts, who was one of the educators to receive our EdTech grant in the past year.

We’re continually thankful and excited about our relationship with Bare Conductive. Although we’re from different continents, we love what their products enable for creative education. At the heart of their educational offerings, which are perfect for makerspaces, is their conductive paint. Yes, you read that correctly.

We love being able to share these stories and educators’ accomplishments with you and hope this series continues to inspire all educators to try some new things in the classroom! This month, we’re highlighting Scott Donnelly, an elementary STEM teacher from Pennsylvania, who’s been using EdTech he received through our grant to run coding programs for his students!

He’s dropping the cubes off to 10 educators across the country and has already made stops in Burlington, Vermont, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Yesterday, he made stop No. 5 and visited Jennifer Fischer, who teaches STEAM at the Mary B. Austin Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama!

Our Merge Cube donation tour continued at the beginning of this week as Eduporium’s Andy made the fourth stop on his road trip. After driving down the entire coast of California, he made it to San Diego on Sunday night. Rumor has it Andy left the world-famous San Diego dog beach, where his dog was having a blast rolling in

School leaders are always looking for ways to get members of their community—most commonly the parents of their students—involved with what kids are doing in the classroom. Today’s students are accomplishing so much especially when it comes to innovative learning and, too often, parents don’t get to truly see what they’re working on.

This month, we’re featuring Victoria Blackmer, a public librarian from Illinois, who has been using EdTech she received through our grant program to host open tinker labs to inspire the kids in her community to experiment and be creative! Read on to learn more about the open tinker labs she’s helped create and what makes them great!

This month’s award goes to Kimberly Eure, a middle school teacher at John F Kennedy Middle School in Suffolk, VA! Kimberly is dedicated to helping her “quirky” students find books they love and applied for our grant in hopes that technology might be able to play a role in that! Read on to learn more about what Kimberly has planned.