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Kristin Brynteson

ETRA researchers employ robots again to nurture computational thinking skills within an NIU STEAM summer school

December 5, 2023 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

What began in Naperville Community Unit School District 203 could not stop there. Faculty from the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment interacted with around 200 students in 2021 and 2022 to observe how working with LEGO educational robots might stimulate

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Photos: ETRA at STEM Fest

October 18, 2022 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Several representatives from the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment staffed Booth 33 at NIU’s STEM Fest 2022, held Oct. 15. “Our VR and AR educational games were a great hit!” Chair Wei-Chen Hung said. “Kids and parents stood in long

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STEM Read Institute sparks educators

August 22, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Macy Gray’s journey as a teacher began at Mayatan Bilingual School, a non-profit in Honduras where she taught sixth-graders. When she returned to Illinois this summer to begin a new job this fall teaching sixth- and seventh-graders at Chicago’s Altus Academy, the

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