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Why coding needs a stronger emphasis in every school

eSchool News

If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions, at after hour gatherings, and certainly in the vendor hall. This is simply a reflection of what is happening in the private sector.

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Play is crucial for middle schoolers, too

The Hechinger Report

Smaller groups of students headed to the school’s gym, while others peeled off towards the cafeteria to play board games, get in some extra study time with their Chromebooks, or just chat with their friends. Middle school students in Robert Lane’s STEM class dig through a box of supplies for a class project. Lane the STEM Guy.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The money owed is by All Children Matter Inc stemming from fines to the Ohio Elections Commission for violating campaign finance law. The test in question: The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study ( TIMSS ) which is administered to students around the world. million to Ohio.”

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

In this case, the researchers are studying the movements of a volunteer fitted with sensors that track his skeleton and muscles as he bends and lifts. Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App. Aaron Swartz, 2008. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Kassner created Proctor U in 2008 with colleague Jarrod Morgan while serving as president of Andrew Jackson University (now known as New Charter University), and left the company in 2016.” Via Techcrunch : “ Pearson is adding LittleBits kits to its STEM curriculum.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students’ backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.