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Don’t Rely on Cute Apps and Games to Teach Coding. Turn to Your Students Instead.

Edsurge

I hear the kids are going to make a robot move to the right, stop, and turn around. There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. And many former campers are now professional coders at top technology companies.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. This is a big leap for us,” says Scivally. “We

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

It’s a prime event to draw attention to black talent in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016. Related: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price.

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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

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. As a high schooler, Kateryn Raymundo interned at Salesforce, a tech company, through the nonprofit Genesys Works. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs.

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How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

MindShift

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. The program, founded in Houston in 2002, plans to train and place 150 interns in the Bay Area this fall. Joanne Jacobs for The Hechinger Report).

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

Earlier we talked to educators who feel disillusioned by edtech companies’ seemingly disingenuous engagement tactics or feel invisible in the edtech choices made at their schools. At the start of our journey to pull back some of the edtech curtain, we set out to survey roughly 30 edtech companies of varying sizes and subject areas.

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