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

The Hechinger Report

NASA astronauts would test the device, which analyzes the effects of weightlessness on cooling and heating systems, and send data back to the students. 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 to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

The CoolCatTeacher

She was named Outstanding Professor at UVa’s School of Education and Human Development in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. 00;15;48;04 – 00;16;27;13 Vicki Davis You can even import NWEA or STAR data to give students a more differentiated experience from the first log on. I love that.

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How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

MindShift

NASA astronauts would test the device, which analyzes the effects of weightlessness on cooling and heating systems, and send data back to the students. 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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Will a new batch of licenses help rural students get online?

The Hechinger Report

They settle in at the computers where Caine teaches coding and software, such as Illustrator and Photoshop, or they head to the back room for the 3-D printer, vinyl cutter and robotics kits. Some kids come to log extra time on class projects. Others show up just for the internet. Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

No doubt, today’s technology companies view students and schools as a largely untapped market. Technology companies – particularly those hawking aspirational, education-related products – have long viewed parents in a similar way. Mattel is, after all, a toy company with lots of intellectual property.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

It’s a powerful story, but not a prediction made based on data or modeling or quantitative research into the growing (or shrinking) higher education sector. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. But the data is flawed. I don’t think so. Both of these predictions are fantasy.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. If they like the footy, a couple of books: Michael Calvin’s Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager or Amy Lawrence’s Invincible: Inside Arsenal’s Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season are likely to interest.