Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots. My readers will be unsurprised to see STEM and business continuing to boom, which suggests even more students will enter those programs. Differences also break out by profession: What does all of this mean for education?

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 25, 2018

You an start with just one Sphero Mini : The App-Controlled Robot Ball Photo by: Jenny of The Brick Castle "Little robot. Sphero Mini fits a huge experience into a tiny robot the size of a ping pong ball. Sure, you can can add lots more to a Robotics area in a Makerspace. I'm a big advocate of STEAM rather than STEM.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To meet this challenge, in the summer of 2020, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC). This lab includes various STEM products, modular seating, and curriculum. Smart transportation, and VR, among others.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. One of President Obama’s initiatives has been a call to action for making STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education a priority in the United States. STEM to STEAM ). Many of these projects incorporate a variety of STEM topics.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. One of President Obama’s initiatives has been a call to action for making STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education a priority in the United States. STEM to STEAM ). Many of these projects incorporate a variety of STEM topics.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. Contests and Awards. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” The idea that preferred admission equals payment stems from the American ideology that opportunity, especially educational opportunity, is a “fair” form of recompense. ” While new technologies are spreading rapidly, the “digital dividends – growth, jobs and services – have lagged behind.”

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