STEAM education and blended learning are popular terms nowadays. Both concepts encourage kids to learn using a mix of traditional and digital tools and platforms. The STEAM education approach, in particular, challenges them to find solutions to open-ended problems and learn concepts in a multidisciplinary way based on relatable real world scenarios. Children are exposed to […]

In the movies, kids who excel academically or have particular interests in stuff like science fares and clubs are often called “geeks” or “nerds” – think Peter Parker, Lisa Simpson, or even Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Depicted as socially awkward with less fashionable clothes, young technology enthusiasts have traditionally been seen weird […]

Teaching kids to code, take an interest in robotics, or be passionate about digital design might just be the key in helping them succeed in the future job market Growing up, we are asked the same question over and over again: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” As kids, our answers […]

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 […]