Bluum’s new STEM solutions help K-12 schools implement a customized combination of edtech tools in their classrooms, enabling educators to create hands-on STEM learning opportunities that increase engagement, foster curiosity, and boost critical thinking and other 21st-century skills. Bluum’s diverse range of technology solutions can be tailored to support existing STEM initiatives and curriculum for any grade, budget, and environment.
Bluum’s edtech experts recommend only best-in-class, educator-approved STEM learning tools, saving school and district leaders time on research and testing, and ensuring technology purchases will achieve their specific instructional goals. Bluum also provides a range of strategic planning and PD services, as well as installation, customer support and white glove services that mean educators can hit the ground running from day one.
Bluum’s STEM solutions enable K-12 teachers to create exciting and memorable interactive learning experiences in the classroom, in afterschool programs, and during summer or virtual learning. Options include:
● Robotics and virtual robot design;
● Augmented reality and virtual reality;
● 3D printing and design;
● Circuitry and electronics;
● Drones and flight simulation;
● Product bundles and makerspaces;
● Flexible and collaborative classroom furniture;
● Instructional software; and
● Coding (languages include Block, Java, Flow, and Python).
Formats/platforms used:
Bluum’s STEM solutions are platform-agnostic and designed to be customized to integrate with a school’s existing STEM curriculum and technology environment.
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Problem solved:
Bluum’s STEM solutions offer advanced technologies that boost student engagement by providing fun, hands-on, project-based learning experiences that inspire collaboration, innovation, and creativity. These tools make learning real, something students can touch and feel instead of a faraway, abstract concept. Students have access to specialized equipment that prepares them for higher education and their careers by teaching them technical skills as well as essential “soft skills,” such as critical thinking and problem-solving.
For educators and administrators, our planning services, technical expertise, installation and professional development support streamline and optimize edtech integration, allowing them to focus on achieving their academic goals.
Grade/age range:
Bluum’s STEM solutions can be customized to appropriately serve all grades, K-12.
Core/supplemental/special needs/extracurricular/professional development?
Bluum’s STEM solutions are designed to address the critical subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math by increasing student and teacher engagement through the effective application of technology.
Bluum offers a full suite of educational services when it comes to integrating a new STEM initiative. From comprehensive planning support to ongoing professional development, we offer a variety of resources and avenues to get support including onsite, remote, and on-demand support.
Standards:
Bluum’s STEM solutions provide technology that supports STEM learning regardless of the standards in use. The strategic planning services map to ISTE standards, enabling districts to align with ISTE’s competencies for leading, teaching, and learning.
Lesson time needed:
Bluum’s STEM solutions provide tools that facilitate and support teachers and students in engaging in a wide range of STEM learning activities for as much or as little time as they need or want.
Pricing model:
Each STEM solution is customizable based on a school or district’s needs, current technology, and the goals they are trying to achieve, so pricing varies. Effective solutions are available within most budgets.
Additional services:
Bluum’s engagement model begins with strategic planning to ensure that schools and districts purchase products that align with their vision and curriculum for STEM initiatives and student engagement. This process involves interviews and document analysis and culminates with a discovery report based on our Framework for Digitally Responsive Educational Organizations. The report provides information on products that support the curriculum, professional development needs for products, as well as teaching and learning, and space considerations. The goal is to start with a plan to maximize not only the district’s return on investment, but the return on instruction.
What makes Bluum unique?
Each STEM solution is customized to fit a school’s specific goals and environment. Schools can choose as many or as few of the products as they and their Bluum rep decide fit their scenario. Another unique feature is our white glove deployment and configuration service, which focuses on keeping classrooms running smoothly. Bluum doesn’t just install STEM solutions and disappear; we ensure schools get the most educational benefit possible out of each tool. Bluum can even develop PD to assist educators in creating an effective learning progression for any of their existing STEM edtech that is underused.
What truly makes Bluum unique is the long-term, mission-driven relationships they build and maintain with schools and districts. For example, Bluum recently supported the Bernalillo Public Schools in the planning and development of a STEM/Fabrication Lab at the Spartan Learning Academy.
The Bluum Team met with the leadership and instructional staff at Bernalillo to create a vision for the space that supports the mission of the district and the goals of its 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. Based on that vision, they designed the learning environment, identified the types of professional learning for the faculty and how the lab connects to the curriculum and to ISTE standards, and created a multi-year timeline that encompassed planning, implementing, and sustaining the lab.
Here is what users are saying:
“Our district’s first dive into VR will allow inner-city children, many who have never left their hometown, to explore and learn about the world in an exciting new way. They are rolling out after-school programs with STEM initiatives wrapped around this. It is impactful because it keeps children safe after school, allows them to see places they never dreamed of seeing, and does so with a pedagogical approach.
— Perry Schatzow, tech coach, Irvington School District, NJ
“Working with the Bluum team was extremely valuable in bringing the Fab Lab vision to life. I was able to talk through the ideas that were percolating in my mind and they were able to lay out the needs, resources, and professional development that would be required in order to reimagine what learning can look like. It is so energizing seeing the students’ excitement within this creative learning space!”
— Nina Quintana, college, career, and military readiness director, Bernalillo School District, NM
