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.

Technology 71

Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 71

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. We were just borrowing the technological resources from the healthcare side of the business,” said Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB and one of its first employees. Earning a profit.

Data 107

Data Dropout Company Report 107

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text. Breakpoint offers a very handy compilation of very needed information. (

Analysis 40

Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text. Breakpoint offers a very handy compilation of very needed information. (

Analysis 40

Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

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.

Technology 29

Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 29

MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. Design is an artistic endeavor that values the creative and human centered application of math, science and technology. 2003; Cornett 1986). By Christa Flores.

Education 28

Education STEM Assessment Report 28

MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Since 2003, more than 15 million 6- to 11- year-olds at thousands of schools across the country have been taught how to think like engineers using the curriculum.

STEM 44

STEM How To Elementary Report 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Some, like the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program , have been inordinately successful at guiding underrepresented students, including many young women, from middle school algebra through to a college degree in a STEM subject. Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success. Where kids live has an impact too.

How To 112

How To Elementary STEM Report 112

EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

” The idea, though, that the kids had separated from technology was ridiculous as Justin shows a YouTube video on how to make a rainbow loom starbust bracelet that has been viewed over 30 million times! determined that 55% of students learned better through active learning rather than passive receipt of information via lecture.

EdTech 60

EdTech Robotics MOOC System 60

The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Over the last few years of the Speak Up survey, more students and administrators have signaled the importance of being able to access mobile devices in the classroom, whether through Bring Your Own Device policy consideration and implementation or through school-provided technology.

Mobility 40

Mobility Blended Learning STEM Survey 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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. Information was control,” Didion writes. ” Education technology faces an inexhaustible supply of quackery.

Technology 40

Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

I love this headline from Campus Technology , which echoes the wise words of Bill and Ted from their excellent adventure: “ Ed Tech Changes … and Stays the Same.” In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You hear it all the time, accompanied by a standard set of justifications about the pressing need to reform education: something about the " factory model of education ; something about radical shifts in the job market in recent decades; something about technology changing faster than it’s ever changed before. All of them.

Robotics 63

Robotics Company Industry Data 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40