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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

Job growth from 2010 to 2014 was in the double digits in several engineering occupations. Their tagline: “A week-long event, a year-long commitment” Do you wonder why anyone would be passionate about engineering? Forbes published three good reasons: The U.S. has approximately 1.6

STEM 310
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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. But, how does the 2010 vision for edTech match what’s actually happening today? Will the cloud continue to reign? 7 YEARS LATER… 1. Indeed, $2.3

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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

Edsurge

The guest, Allison Russell, was talking about the emotional intelligence of young people and mentioned that she’d just learned that her daughter was part of Generation Alpha , which refers to people born after 2010. I had questions and I wanted to know more. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.”

Education 200
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Most Popular Posts of 2014 and All Time

The Innovative Educator

In 2014 The Innovative Educator blog shared 166 posts with its readers. Post Comments Page Views Date 5 Ideas to Make Lectures and Presentations Interactive 52 5262 8/31/2014 Going #BYOD ? Actually, not all time, just since analytics started in 2010. Jul 15, 2010, 26807 The Ten No Nos of Teaching with a Projector or Int.

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Exploring Design Thinking Micro-credentials in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al., 2003), and technology (Kafai & Resnick, 2002; Todd, 1999) suggest that design thinking skills are not merely extras, but can in fact aid students in core subject areas as well as building cognitive and social skills (Carroll et al.,

Classroom 247
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Before you start bashing the Millennials…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Since 2010, the economy has added 11.6 From 1979 to 2014, the poverty rate among young workers with only a high school diploma more than tripled, to 22 percent. . A worker who made the same move in 2010 kept just 36 percent. This is what it feels like to be young now. million jobs—and 11.5 There is still a choice here.

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HE Challenges: Combating declining completion rates

Neo LMS

from the 2010 cohort. Both the 2010 and 2011 cohorts are still below the pre-recession completion rate of 55,8% (which in itself is still nothing to write home about). Public (two-year) community colleges: 38%. Just short of half of all community college students drop out entirely. While the 2011 completion rate shows an uptick of 2.1%

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