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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

Since 2007, the number of engineering grads nationwide has shot up 33%. During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Forbes published three good reasons: The U.S.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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A Ninja’s Take on Education Policy: Interview With Linda Darling-Hammond

Edsurge

We’ll also need a great infusion of technology. Many districts are still spending less today than they did in 2007. And in low-income schools, investment in technology and instructional specialists get cut. By ‘investment in computers,’ do you mean investment in technology broadly? So we do need some major investments.

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The hidden audience effect

Learning with 'e's

Held in Bradford's prestigious National Media Museum (more on this in a future post), the day was packed full of quick fire workshops, seminars and plenary presentations. She reported great learning results through activities supported through the use of games, mobile technology, video, music technology and other specialised software.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment. THE DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

That there aren’t enough seats in schools like Essex Tech for every student who wants one is a credit to the model, and to career and technical education’s evolution, said David Driscoll, who served as Massachusetts’ education commissioner from 1999 to 2007. Gabriella Okparaoko, a junior at Essex Tech in the Automotive Technology program.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment. THE DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN.

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