A Teacher Appreciation Week reflection from dfusion There is a particular kind of teacher we have been thinking about this week. Not the teacher of the year. Not the one with the most-pinned classroom on Pinterest. We are thinking about the teacher who, sometime in the last decade, looked at a piece of educational technology […]
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“I used to not really like math but FSML changed that, and I really like it now.” —6th grade student “It changed the way I saw fractions at first they were a bit hard but now its easy.” – 8th grade student For students who groan at the thought of another math worksheet, a game-changing
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When BA and Mia first pitched the idea of creating STEMPlay Labs as a dedicated division within dfusion, I knew it was an All-Star idea. As dfusion’s CEO and the Principal Investigator who launched our STEM and sports work with STEMadium and our Science of Sport collaboration, I’ve lived by one principle: research science shouldn’t
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The latest results from the Nation’s Report Card shows that 8th grade students have fewer opportunities to practice scientific inquiry activities in the classroom. In 2024, that has translated to lower science achievement and lower rates of enjoying science compared to 2019. Only 31% of 8th graders were proficient in science and even fewer were
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