The Future of STEM: Changing Perceptions
If you ask a kid to draw a scientist, most of them will come up with the same image: an elderly man wearing a lab coat and holding a microscope. It’s a stereotype we all know well.
If you ask a kid to draw a scientist, most of them will come up with the same image: an elderly man wearing a lab coat and holding a microscope. It’s a stereotype we all know well.
Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here.
Here are some apps that can get kids excited about coding from a young age.
There’s a greater push to teach kids computer coding at school. But you don’t need to be a technology whiz to introduce it to your students.