Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. You can’t really tell from the website—every school has a different approach,” observed one study participant.

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Elementary System Study STEM 60

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Michael Smirnov, a post-doc at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience working on neuronal signal transduction , has been leading the course for the six students studying at the institute this year. The Max Planck Academy, then, will be an expansion of a model FAU High School started in 2004, when it opened with just seven students.

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Data Trends Report Course 63

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

There are numerous research studies that demonstrate the relationship between spatial reasoning and what we typically think of as mathematical ability. For example, one research study found that the quality of block play at four years of age was a predictor of high school mathematics achievement (Wolfgang et al.,

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. Introduce modern technology, and interactions can quickly grow from mischievous to malicious. Each has a stem, and petals. Girls get called ‘whores.’

Social Media 40

Social Media Survey Groups Report 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. Each civilization has historical characteristics, along with gameplay that reflects concepts related to history, geography, management, diplomacy and technology.

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Game-Based Learning Education Gamification Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Without the outreach and prep program, the Olmsted gifted program began to grow whiter — from 55 percent Black and 30 percent white in 2004 to 32 percent Black and 46 percent white in 2013, according to federal data. Technology is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Racism will always play a factor in most people’s decision-making.”

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Dropout STEM Analysis Company 83

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Education Technology and (Decades and Decades of) Quackery.

Technology 40

Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” I recognize that this class is called “Learning, Media, and Technology.” ” The full slide deck is available here. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your class today.

Software 90

Software Learning Training LMS 90