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

The Hechinger Report

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. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice. We don’t have much of a budget, so we use what we have,” he says.

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How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

MindShift

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. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice. We don’t have much of a budget, so we use what we have,” he says.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

Edsurge

Later, the name for the LEGO company’s award-winning toy Mindstorms, a robotic construction system for youngsters, was inspired by Seymour's 1980 book of the same name.) Yet many of the industry’s efforts to create computer-aided learning software, or attempted to infuse traditional instructional material onto games, frustrated Seymour.

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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

But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.” “I was not a lab rat,” she wrote in an op-ed in The Guardian in 2004.

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

Hack Education

” Every year since 2004, the New Media Consortium, a non-profit organization that advocates for new media and new technologies in education, has issued its own forecasting report, the Horizon Report, naming a handful of technologies that, as the name suggests, it contends are “on the horizon.”

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

Our family’s budget software of choice is YNAB (You Need A Budget). 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.