App of the week: Atomsmith Molecule Lab Middle School
3 ways to build engagement in STEM classrooms
With the push to build STEM literacy and get more students—especially girls—into STEM fields, engagement is needed across science disciplines
For your child’s sake, don’t hate on math
Admit it – given the choice between reading a book and solving some algebraic equations, you’d pick the book, according to this Teach for American blog post.
New site explores the science of the Winter Olympics
NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has partnered with the National Science Foundation to create a new video series exploring the “Science and Engineering of the…
What good are mentors in an online age?
In an age where anyone with an internet connection can learn everything from how to cut a pineapple to “Intro to Engineering” from MIT, are mentors still relevant…
10 next-generation science apps for education
Just like technology, science is always changing to reflect progress and information learned. With these 10 next-generation science apps for education, you’ll find an array of apps that…
10 interactive math apps for K-12 students
Research has proven that developing and sustaining students' interest in math at an early age leads to future success in more difficult and complex math courses. With the…
App of the week: Door 24-Math
This Common Core-aligned math app provides targeted practice in the use of basic facts, number sense and algebraic thinking.
Want more women in tech? Fix misperceptions of computer science
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi recently wrote a blog post titled “The real reason there aren’t more women in tech,” says edSurge.
App of the week: TI-Nspire™
Helps with math mastery through comprehensive graphing, data entry and analysis, statistical modeling and calculating functionality.
App of the week: Ordered Fractions
Ordered Fractions provides a tool that offers an innovative method of learning about comparing and ordering fractions.
Top 10 ed-tech stories of 2013, No. 8: ‘Forgotten’ STEM elements
In most of the national conversations about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, it’s the “S” and the “M” that get all the attention. But those oft-forgotten…
You’ll make more money if you can code
Being able to learn marketable digital skills is sluggish and difficult — or so they say, Mashable reports.
Why teach computer science in high schools?
Derek Acosta is a junior at Cristo Rey New York High School, an innovative school in Harlem where students work to finance their education. He has good grades…
Today’s CEO leader in STEM
Our future depends on the strength of our scientific spine, StemConnector.org reports.
Millions participate in the Hour of Code
Last month, eSN gave readers a preview of Computer Science Education Week's major initiative, the Hour of Code, which asks students, teachers, parents, and schools to learn just…
10 computer science education resources and facts
To celebrate Computer Science Education Week and to make sure you're ready to educate students and peers about why computer science is such an essential part of U.S.…
Let’s hope Computer Science Education Week is an impetus for Congress to act
Were Grace Hopper still alive, she’d turn 107 years young on Monday, December 9th, ITIC.org reports.
Computer Science Education Week: How will you participate?
Computer Science Education Week begins today, and the week is full of resources and events to help curriculum directors and educators integrate and implement computer science lessons. As…
Could these new standards work better than Common Core?
Imagine this ‘unicorn’ scenario in education: You take an entire subject--one whose mastery could push the country to the forefront of innovation--and spend years doing nothing but perfecting…
NASA sows seeds of science for children
NASA is teaming with the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association to cultivate agricultural innovations for space, and tapping classrooms across the country to help.
OPINION: Learning to code isn’t enough
The 2020 Science report released in 2005 observed that science was changing in a subtle but fundamental way--from the use of computing to support scientific work, to integrating…
An uptick in the hiring of women for tech jobs
There are signs that tech companies are hiring more women, but women still appear to make up far less than half of all new hires in the industry,…
Federal program links students to career learning
President Obama on Nov. 19 unveiled a new grant program designed to help U.S. students understand and develop the skills they will need to be successful in college…
Ed-tech tools boost early learners’ math skills
New research indicates that a technology-supported curriculum can help early learners better absorb STEM subjects, setting up at-risk early learners for more academic success down the road. A…
Curriculum series ties math to exciting careers
Scholastic has launched a new web-based curriculum series for middle school students that aims to make math more engaging and relevant. Called Math@Work, this free online video series…
NBA great promotes STEM education at event
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar bent down Monday to study the solar-powered car being demonstrated by sixth-graders from Miller’s Hill School in Shingle Springs, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Women gain in some STEM fields, but not computer science
A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to get more women interested in computer science, The New York Times reports.
The road from Legos to engineering starts here
When Christos Speros was a little boy, Legos were his favorite toy, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Better STEM education, training needed for mismatched workers
Boeing is not bluffing about its need for skilled workers or for Washington state to commit to continuous investment in skills training and an educational pipeline that promotes…
TenMarks revamps website for Common Core math practice
A website for independent math practice, instruction, and assessment, TenMarks was just acquired by Amazon this fall. The newly redesigned version includes more than 20,000 questions created specifically…
South Portland ‘university’ promotes high school STEM education
The transparent gelatinous alginate strands South Portland High School junior Jackeline Zarate and Portland High School junior Bailey Ruesch pulled from a test tube last week at Fairchild…
WWU researchers to study math, science teaching methods in area schools
Starting this fall, researchers from Western Washington University will study local elementary school math and science teaching methods in an attempt to figure out if specialists - those…
Computer science education: The ‘why’ and ‘how’
