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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

The Hechinger Report

Their visions represent a journey into cybersecurity and space travel, racism and robots. But while the technology necessary to move to Mars seems likely to be a net positive, these children aren’t interested in every new advancement. All four students say they think humanoid robots are “creepy.”) It’s not going to fix itself.

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How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

The Hechinger Report

The launch marked the latest effort by the 5-year-old charter school, to expose students to the skills they’ll need to access high-tech jobs. Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person.

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How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

MindShift

The launch marked the latest effort by the 5-year-old charter school, to expose students to the skills they’ll need to access high-tech jobs. Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. For a U.N.

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OPINION: Fixing education during the pandemic means fixing an uneasy relationship with technology

The Hechinger Report

The relationship between education and technology has never been an easy one. The role of technology in the classroom has been subject to all sorts of scrutiny over the years, much of it justified, some not. Worries have included the effects of screen time on young minds, along with questions about whether robots will replace teachers.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

The creators of an educational robot, for instance, recently decided that they needed to rethink its training regimen. The small Dallas-based edtech company named RoboKind makes a 3-foot tall, spikey-haired robot named Milo, used in schools to help children with autism learn to decode nonverbal communication. They’re engineers.

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The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education

Bryan Alexander

I’ve been studying the mobile technology world for a while, ever since helping do some research for Howard Rheingold’s Smartmobs (2002). Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. Mark Weiser in 1991 : “The most profound technologies are those that disappear.”

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. Karen earned her BA in Mathematics from Bryn Mawr College and her MA in Instructional Technology and New Media from Teachers College, Columbia University.