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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

Edsurge

Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” In 2009, at the subway station, local transit police shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant, an event many consider to have started the Black Lives Matter movement.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I. The George W.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Washington Post : “The new lesson plan for elementary school: Surviving the Internet.”

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

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.