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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 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. In the meantime, some teachers at Panguitch High School are moving more of their classroom work online with the learning management system Canvas.

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

Hack Education

To borrow from “ Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence ,” no matter the stories we tell about innovation, no matter the predictions we make about disruption, in time everything in ed-tech becomes indistinguishable from the learning management system. But that’s not new.

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

Hack Education

The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. By 2012 – yes, thanks to its hardware business – Apple’s stock had risen to the point that the company was worth a record-breaking $624 billion. John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

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