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21st Century Tools for the Classroom: Quizzes & Videos
Formative assessment is an essential part of the learning process, allowing teachers to assess students understanding of concepts and learning needs. Here are a few of our favorite tech tools such as Quizizz and Kahoot that can help make assessments fun for students and easy for teachers!
Learning Through Play With Lego Mindstorms
For young kids, we would recommend keeping the phrase “Learning through playing” front of mind. In practical terms, we have found that introducing Technology with Lego Mindstorms to young kids is more effective than making them code early on.
Personalized Learning and Coding in the Classroom
Personalized learning is all about tailoring the learning experience to the needs of students, allowing them to gain more out of education by focusing on things that interest them and using learning styles that best suit their needs. Code offers a unique opportunity to allow for structured and yet personalized learning. Ultimately, the way you learn to code is by completing projects.
Do Video Games Benefit Student Learning?
While the discussion about modern games and their effect on today’s society is still an ongoing debate, the incredible potential of the medium to teach a range of skills, especially in education, is impossible to ignore.
Coding Is Just Like A Language
While they may look very different on a page, when it comes down to it coding languages and spoken languages share many similarities. Here are just 5 of the interesting ways coding is like a traditional language.
Behind the Scenes: The Team Building BSD Online
I’d like to take you behind the scenes of the BSD software development team. Our team is actually a multicultural and international group of developers, data scientists and designers from Thailand, Scotland, England, France, the US and Myanmar!
Women in STEM and Inspiring Female Role Models in the Classroom
As educators, it is crucial we work to improve female representation in STEM related careers. There are plenty of ways to bring female role models into your classroom. Here are some ideas.
Encouraging Students To Study Technology
We know with technology, especially computer science or coding, that students can often be put off by some commonly held misconceptions. We have put a few points together below that can help you demystify or debunk these, and drive more participation in your school’s technology programme.
Catching up with EdTech: Our Favorite Article Sources
The Education Team at BSD understands how precious your time is as a teacher… To help you stay ahead, we have scoured the internet for the most insightful and interesting edtech content (blogs, articles, and podcasts) to help you stay afloat in the rapid changes and tides (driven by tech) in education.
Advantages of Real-World Technology Camp for Kids: Game Development Camp
Developing games is an intense, engaging, collaborative and multidisciplinary activity which takes the developer through stages of planning, designing, coding and testing. This means budding gamers will spend a lot of time practising communication and collaboration! Here is a bit more detail on some of the ways we see campers honing their abilities!
Opinion: Why Work Experience Needs to be Bite Sized
One of the best possible ways for a young person to fit into a working environment, which is new and often alien to them, is not to seek an immediate result, but to allow relationships to develop over time. Weekly work experience over a period of time will allow credibility and trust to build between the student and the company as weekly tasks are consistently accomplished, communication is learned and the individual is simply proven reliable and convivial.
Why Mobile Phones Are a Powerful Learning Tool
Benefits include understanding of the multitude of different ways to communicate we now use in the present day, the importance of the phone as part of authenticity of real world context in learning, as well as the flexibility of learning available to students where they can use their phone to progress at their own pace. Benefits include understanding of the multitude of different ways to communicate we now use in the present day, the importance of the phone as part of authenticity of real world context in learning, as well as the flexibility of learning available to students where they can use their phone to progress at their own pace.
Inspire Students: Bring the Real World into your Classroom
By building something real that can be shared with the outside world, students learn new skills and see the impact those skills can have. This increases engagement, inspires creativity and develops student ownership.
Who You Should Follow On Twitter for EdTech Updates, Tips and Tricks
As the world of tech is rapidly evolving, it can be difficult to keep up with all the changes, and come up with teaching ideas that use the most up to date and relevant technology. Here are way to expand your EdTech Community!
Real World Subject Learning Can Increase Engagement in STEM for All
“To promote STEM, we believe educators, schools and teachers should consider making math or science-related subjects more relevant to students’ real life.” Making subject learning real world takes away the need for rote memorisation, this is something students have expressed their frustrations over.
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BSD News
BSD Professional Development is now accredited to CPD Standards
With accredited providers in over 40 countries, CPDSO has worked with hundreds of training providers, educational organizations, and employers.
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.
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