In this edWebinar, Leanna Prater, Ed.D and Jennifer Rodabaugh share how to inspire and engage elementary students in computer science and coding.
In this edWebinar, Charlotte Cheng, Curriculum Designer at Wonder Workshop, walks through the different stages of the design thinking process.
Using engaging tools that include media and gamification, test prep can be fun and engaging for students. In this edWebinar, Nancy Penchev shares a host of ideas and present some of her favorite tools, including DoInk, FlipGrid, Chatterkids, and others.
Current approaches to identifying students with reading disabilities are often problematic and ineffective, and will not lead students to academic success. Significant improvements in identification and screening have been made to provide greater support, and earlier. In “Cutting-Edge Research to Empower Schools to Support Students with Reading Disabilities,” Rick Wagner, Associate Director for the Florida Center for Reading Research, discussed problems with current methods and how to better help students with these disabilities.
edWeb.net and littleBits Education are partnering to host STEM Learning: Full STEAM Ahead, a free, professional learning community on edWeb that will support educators working with students in grades 2-8. Through this free online community and edWebinars, littleBits Education will help educators empower children to unlock their creative and technical confidence through invention, and to be creators of technology, not just consumers of it.
Personalized learning for struggling readers can be timesaving and easy to execute. Finding patterns and honing in on students’ reading skill deficits will quickly point educators to the appropriate intervention. In “Timesaving Strategies for Selecting Interventions for Struggling Readers,” Cindy Kanuch, Reading Specialist at Calhan Elementary School, presented tips on working to address skill deficits in the most efficient and effective manner, which in some situations can help students improve in as soon as one to two weeks.
edWeb.net and Wonder Workshop are hosting a professional learning community (PLC) on Coding & Robotics K-8 that will bring together thought leaders, technical experts, leading-edge educators, and industry leaders to provide teachers new information, resources, ideas and a place for discussion on how to teach coding and robotics, and how to integrate computer science and coding theory into core subjects, especially for students in grades K-8.
In this edWebinar, you will learn from Bryan L. Miller, Educator Community Manager at Wonder Workshop, why STEM is a great way to introduce inquiry into the K-5 classroom through all kinds of hands-on activities, including coding and robotics, which will be sure to engage your students.
With the literacy of coding emerging as a “must” of 21st-Century learning, our already complex jobs suddenly seem to be getting more complicated. Teachers, however, don’t have to be masters of JavaScript or Ruby to give students the tools they need. Concepts like computational and design thinking, or connecting to the language of code to solve problems and create content, don’t have to be as complicated (or intimidating) as they sound.
In this edWebinar, Nettie McDonald Briggs, Senior Education Specialist for Learning.com, and Jeff Meyer, Director of Education for Learning.com, will share how you can give your students a competitive edge by equipping them with these critical digital literacy skills—starting as early as kindergarten.