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Discovery Education, Caterpillar Foundation, and Learning Undefeated Launch New Initiative to Inspire Next Generation of STEM Professionals

eSchool News

This unique program leverages the power of play by using engaging, hands-on digital resources to educate and inspire students in grades 9-12 to consider exciting careers in a variety of STEM professions. The future STEM innovators are sitting in classrooms all across the country.

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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Esports in Schools Fosters STEM Learning. Esports and STEM go hand-in-hand. That’s a notable jump from the 45% of all undergraduates in 2015 that planned to study STEM. STEM careers. By a long shot.)

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. They also have the capacity to support personal learning.

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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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. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. So many losses.

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No son, war is not necessary

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment, a think tank, wrote an op ed asking those very questions about the U.S. Related: Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field. They are taught to do so. government’s decision to go to war with Iraq. and “Why now?”

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

And in another post, I will look at the administration’s efforts to promote STEM and CS education via the Computer Science For All initiative launched in January ; in yet another I’ll look at its efforts to encourage schools use open educational resources via the GoOpen initiative which it launched last year. .”