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How Digital Education is Affecting Young Students
During the early years, the educational focus is less on cultivating particular technical skills and more about creating digital familiarity, developing ways of thinking (such as computational thinking and design thinking), and building a foundation for fluency. This can be done in all manner of ways and it is never too young for students to start on the journey of creating with digital tools and skills.
Critical Examination May Be the Most Important Digital Literacy Skill Yet
More than ever, we need students to possess strong digital literacy skills so they can make informed decisions, be competent researchers, and form opinions free of bias.
6 Tech Practices to Improve Student Experience
The 2020-2021 school year has been an experiment. As engagement and learning experiences have shifted, so have the ways we interact. Here are six things I do in my classrooms that have improved the student experience this past year.
Applying Growth Mindset: How Schools Can Embrace Challenges
To encourage and develop a growth mindset in students, we should model and implement the key characteristics of a growth mindset in how we work. Like our learners, we as educators should cultivate a growth mindset for ourselves!
6 Ways Machine Learning Will Evolve Classrooms in 2021
By definition, machine learning uses artificial intelligence to improve upon itself, when utilized by educators in the classroom, it opens up a number of opportunities for schools to optimize their curriculum and teaching. In this article, I’ve identified six interesting developments and challenges from my research that may help to guide educators through 2021.
What Does the Future of EdTech Look Like in 2021?
EdTech has taken a front-row seat in the global business landscape in 2020 with investors making significant bets on established and larger companies in growth investment rounds. 2021 will be a year when the disruption of 2020 becomes the new normal and it is against this backdrop that the future of EdTech will truly be defined.
Can a Technologist and Educator Agree on Digital Terms?
As the Hour of Code week approaches, we asked Mark Barnett, our VP of Education, and Nickey Khemchandani, our CTO to reflect on the importance of coding, what really matters in coding education, and to share their ideas on how educators and technologists can benefit from collaborating.
Our Brains are Wired for Games and Play: How Can Learning be More Playful?
It turns out that playing games and engaging in other forms of play are deeply stimulating and intuitive activities that require cognitive thinking and problem solving, the very things that education strives to achieve. Instead of shunning play in education altogether, perhaps there are ways in which we can leverage play in classrooms as a way to keep children engaged while learning.
Understanding Personalized Education in Schools
Too often, nowadays, we try to find a tech solution to all that we do and often begin to lose focus on what is most important. Personalized learning is not about technology. Let us not forget the power and importance of teacher-student relationships and our role as teachers in inspiring and being beacons to our learners.
How Digital Education is Affecting Young Students
At BSD, we believe that all students should learn digital skills and be able to apply them to a range of contexts. That is why we advocate for these skills to be taught across subject areas, topics, and age groups. Even though younger students may not be able to label that they are learning digital skills, technology is now second nature.
Ensuring Your Students’ Data Privacy in Online Classrooms
With the ongoing global pandemic, schools around the world have had to embrace the use of technology to power their classrooms and educate their students. However, in the rush to address these challenges, less attention has been paid to the privacy of data shared by online learning too
Building Teacher Community through Teachers-Meet-Businesses
We are committed to providing teachers with opportunities to nurture their connections to other teachers through various initiatives but most recently through a new talk series called “Teachers Meet Businesses”. The aim was to build a community that bridged the gap between educators and businesses in terms of preparing students for the workplace.
How to Build Student Agency in 2020
One desirable quality that employers are looking for in future candidates is the ability to take initiative. In other words, this means having agency. So the question is now, how do you develop agency in students?
5 Tips for a Successful New Academic Year
We have been working with schools all over the globe who are facing uncertain times and big shifts in the way we teach and how students access their education for the upcoming school year. From our discussions with school leaders, and by following best practices, we’ve come up with five strategies that will help educators navigate the upcoming school year.
Why JavaScript Is a Better Programming Language for Children
With the availability of many programming languages, educators face a dilemma on which programming language they can introduce to students. At this stage, we discovered there are two popular approaches to programming that educators usually take:
BSD News
Faizaa, from Chittagong, Wins International Award
BSD CARE Award winner Faizaa Fariya Hridi at Upskill featured in Bangladesh’s Dainik Azadi – দৈনিক আজাদী!
PRESS RELEASE: EIS and BSD Partner to Bring 21st Century Skills to San Diego Youth
New partnership with the Elementary Institute of Science and BSD Education to address the rising importance of delivering coding and other digital skills to San Diego students.
PRESS RELEASE: BSD Education Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification
Product Certification serves as a rigorous, reliable signal for district and school administrators, educators, and families looking for evidence of research-based products grounded in research about learning.
Hong Kong-Based BSD Education Plans To Raise $4m In Its Ongoing Series A Round
Hong Kong-based edtech firm BSD Education said it is currently in the process of raising US$4 million from undisclosed investors in its series A financing round.
Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Takes The Lead In Organizing Hong Kong’s First Global Hackathon
A global hackathon aimed at inspiring girls and young people from underrepresented communities to enter the world of artificial intelligence is set to take place in Hong Kong for the first time later this month.
Virtual Spring Tech Camps With BSD Education
With a range of virtual tech-related course offerings, BSD Education is here to help the little ones develop an inquisitive mind through technology.
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