2009 Accessibility Advocacy Robotics 
Edsurge
MARCH 27, 2023
Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots. The area struggles with high unemployment, homelessness and crime.
Hack Education
APRIL 13, 2018
Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Indeed.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab. The George W. There are no exceptions to this.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 2, 2017
But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills.
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