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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

Teachers can download a FREE K-12 standards-aligned lesson plan on car design that includes STEM concepts and art. Blog: [link] Twitter: @ robertkaplinsky Instagram: @ robert_kaplinsky Facebook: [link] Pinterest: [link] Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. Oh, and by the way, U.S.

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How to Introduce Engineering Principles Early to Help Inspire Interest in STEM

MindShift

This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. People posting on Facebook and Twitter said Anchalee was too attractive to be an actual software engineer and must be a model. Sign up for our newsletter. QUINCY, Wash. —

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How to build an engineer: Start young

The Hechinger Report

People posting on Facebook and Twitter said Anchalee was too attractive to be an actual software engineer and must be a model. Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success. Related: Too little aid for low-income STEM majors? Related: Eight ways to introduce kids to STEM at an early age.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Facebook gets in the “ literacy ” business. “Facebook’s News Literacy Advice Is Harmful to News Literacy,” says Mike Caulfield. In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. Not really. It’s still in the entertainment and advertising business.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. It’s the future of school (and it’s the future of Facebook ). So many losses. “Soon.”