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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. This summer, for the first time, nine students will study abroad.

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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. This summer, for the first time, nine students will study abroad.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. I would often contact 3rd-5th grade teachers (and it helped that I had my own girls in those grades at the time) and ask them what they were studying. We've come a long way baby!

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

techlearning

If perhaps you were to approach this same list of categories with topics like Virtual and Augmented Reality, the Maker Movement, Coding, and/or Robotics… you may find yourself in a different adopter category. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Macfarlane, F.,

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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 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

While studying food policy as a master’s candidate at NYU, Leanne Browne asked a simple yet critical question: How well can a person eat on the $4 a day federal food stamp program? Some of my favorite books include Secret Garden , The Enchanted Forest and The Badass Feminist Coloring Book.