The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

Black enrollment in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — is among the issues that urgently demand attention, said Cato Laurencin, CEO of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. “We Related: Successfully replicating the Meyerhoff STEM scholars program.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. So, where and how did we lose our way? And how can educators and institutions change things?

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Kathy Schrock

MARCH 1, 2019

The hundreds of quality STEM-related videos and materials in the Discovery Education online collection make it easy to find content to use for your lessons and units. However, take time for students to develop a solid thinking process before starting your STEM unit. After you read about each model, ask yourself the following questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. You talk about needing to change the paradigm of teaching physics and other STEM fields.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Catholic Independent Schools, Everett, Massachusetts, joined the VHS Learning network of partners in 2001. VHS Learning offers more than 250 unique online courses including 24 AP® offerings, innovative STEM and humanities programs, and a wide variety of unique electives.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical fields. ” Math students have been asking educators this very question for decades. Disruption.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2021

Together, we’re leveraging technology in unique ways to forge connections that will last well beyond the pandemic. Both campers and counselors leave our programs with a more expansive vision of who “belongs” in STEM, and what a STEM career might look like. When COVID-19 hit the U.S. Students from across the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Designed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights the remarkable ways people throughout the United States came together, focusing on our common humanity in the aftermath of the attacks. Testing the Limits Virtual Field Trip with Boeing Premiere: September 30 th at 1 PM ET.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2022

From the moment we open our eyes in the morning till we go to bed at night, our minds are incessantly stimulated and a big part of this stimulation stems from our digital devices. In 2001, Anderson and Krathwohl revised Bloom's taxonomy and introduced the following six verbs: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 4, 2016

Todd Beard has been an educator since 2001 working with students in kindergarten through adulthood. Graduating from the University of Michigan with a focus in education, math, and language arts, he is an educator passionate about technology in learning. About our Guest. Thank You For Your Podcast Reviews.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

With her new appointment, Dr. Bers will continue to explore and research how young students learn to be creators and collaborators with technology and with each other. She describes how coding is seen as a “new language,” and how it can be presented in a playful context, merging STEM/STEAM and coding with social-emotional learning.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Earlier this month, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released their report, The Broadband Imperative II: Equitable Access for Learning. We’re thrilled to share that two of our partners were profiled for their forward-thinking use of technology. Cornerstone Academy. Additionally, our partners at St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2018

Demand for AP classes, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, vastly outpaces the supply of qualified teachers, exacerbating educational disparities. “On However, many schools have failed to keep up. On May 8, students from Madison Shannon Palmer High School took the AP Physics 1 exam for the first time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Devlin reports that BrainQuake’s underlying mathematics pedagogy is grounded in the National Research Council 2001 study, “ Adding it Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, National Academies Press ,” and heavily influenced by the Nunes et al 1993 text “Street Mathematics and School Mathematics.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Engaging Kindergarteners with Technology: Augmented Reality, iPads, QR Codes and More. Technology is expensive. And so they basically were learning to use the technology themselves, which is what they’re going to have to do for the rest of their lives. Other Resources: Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Each year, K-12 schools and districts that have leveraged technology to dramatically improve the educational experiences and achievements of their students are honored through SETDA’s Student Voices program. She is scheduled to graduate with a PhD in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University next year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

alone, educational technology companies raised $1.2 Some of this investment will be conventional—computer-lab renewal, classroom technology, network upgrades and such. Educational technology investments can affect colleges and universities in different ways, as I've elaborated elsewhere. In the U.S. For sure. “If

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

It should be obvious, given that the United States has been fighting a series of wars at a planetary scale since September 2001. Unlike a draft, which by design draws broadly on society, a volunteer force tends to stem from local traditions, family history, regional cultures, and other unevenly distributed drivers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. After the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor struggling students, but several frauds and fiascos led to concerns about lax oversight. And it’s [a] night and day difference.”.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2017

Guard Up opened a full-time facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, in 2001. Today, campers can choose to survive a post-apocalyptic adventure in the Zombie STEM Summer Camp or journey to the fantasy world of Sidleterra in Wizards & Warriors STEM Camp. In this age of technology, so few kids are unplugged and playing pretend.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Research shows that spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. We use media, art and technology on MY HERO to celebrate the best of humanity, one story at a time.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. After the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor struggling students, but several frauds and fiascos led to concerns about lax oversight. And it’s [a] night and day difference.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

My teacher specifically made the class hard, and she told my mom, ‘He should definitely look into something in the STEM majors.’”. Lockett researched science and technology fields his sophomore year and decided on bioengineering, a discipline that combines science and math to study living things.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” ” The Business of Ed-Tech. as Adults Head Back to Work.”

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Wikipedia think aloud observations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

DALLAS — When Lauren McKinnon heard a new public elementary school was opening close to her home in Dallas, it was good news; but when she learned the school would offer an all-girls education format with a focus on STEM, she was excited, knowing inequities often exist for girls – like her daughters – in math and science.

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