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Serious Games and Blended Learning: Changing the Game for STEAM Education Serious Games, including STEAM educational games are gaining credibility as important teaching tools in the international education community and blended learning circles, and even at home. Nowadays, many children spend considerable time on tablets and the internet; some are as early as the age [...]

Think A-head: STEAM Education and Why Arts is Important in the Age of Technology In major global markets, STEM education has recently evolved into STEAM education, as many educators around the world include the “A” for Arts. Often when we think of Silicon Valley, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg, we immediately associate their success and [...]

STEAM Education – Giving your kids opportunity to be the next Bill Gates There is no formula to success, much less how to be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. So, that's it? Blog post over? My kids can never be the next tech billionaire? Well, not exactly. While no one has the answers [...]

Leading the way in education revolution, STEAM Craft Edu took best in class honors, winning this year’s Best Free ICT / App Product at the prestigious 4th GESS Education Awards, held March 15 in Dubai. Celebrating the best and brightest in the Education sector, the annual GESS Awards sees nominations from over 30 countries and […]

Darden, who worked at NASA for 40 years, was not portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures,” but knew the lead characters: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — African American female mathematicians who aided NASA during the early years of the space program. The movie was nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars and has made over $100 […]

Stephen Grzybowski, a STEAM Museum presenter, facilitated a STEAM Robotics exercise and showed what a robot could do to the New London Elementary School students before allowing them to experience hands-on educational exhibits. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math. NEW LONDON — Olivia Yetter and Pailee Wilson each enjoyed the interactive robot [...]

Australia’s biggest student film competition, Screen It, is a free annual competition open to all Australian primary and secondary school students. This year, there were 587 entries created by 2,521 primary and secondary school students, and we spoke to some of the winners to find out what they got out of the experience. The Screen [...]

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious […]

Children (and adults!) love stories – tales that excite, inspire, intrigue and captivate our attention. Storytelling taps into a part of our brains that helps concepts resonate. Educator Lev Fruchter uses storytelling to help accentuate topics in his math class. A former English teacher, Fruchter notes that this is “…a way to make equations meaningful, which […]

The e-learning market is predicted to experience significant global growth over the next five years, largely driven by advances in technology, evolving business needs and a number of emerging learning and development trends, according to Docebo’s newly released research report, “E-Learning Market Trends and Forecast 2017-2021.” Docebo, an international learning management system (LMS) provider, draws […]