The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research.

Industry 131

Industry Elementary Education Robotics 131

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The multi-million-dollar facility is stocked with today’s most advanced manufacturing equipment ranging from steel 3D printers to precision cutters to collaborative robotics that work alongside humans on the factory floor. Around 2010, when the U.S. You can go in as a robot programmer or a computer technician.

Robotics 79

Robotics Industry Company Training 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

STEM 102

STEM Report Robotics Company 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’re going to finish up our robotics badge by making a toothbrush robot,” she announced to four fellow members of Mobile, Alabama’s Girl Scout Troop 8274 in June. MacKenzie Brackett demonstrates a toothbrush robot wiring technique to three troop members attending via Zoom Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

Robotics 113

Robotics STEM Report Mobility 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Benjamin Pring, co-founder of the Center for the Future of Work at technology company Cognizant. But because nursing demands interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, it can’t easily be done by robots, say futurists, medical professionals and technology experts. Is empathy robot-proof?

Robotics 85

Robotics Report Course Company 85

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like Lego blocks clicked together, two educational robot companies have combined to offer their collective programming and robotics lessons to students spanning from 4 years old to college. Modular Robotics , the Boulder, Colo.-based based maker of Cubelet robot blocks, has acquired Dexter Industries , a Stafford, Va.-based

Robotics 121

Robotics Education Company Industry 121

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics. Problems (that we all know about) Educators across the globe are increasingly familiar with the staggering statistics: Between 2010 and 2020, STEM jobs growth will outpace all other jobs at 1 8.7% , leading to an estimated 1.1

Classroom 60

Classroom Robotics STEM Survey 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. By 2012 – yes, thanks to its hardware business – Apple’s stock had risen to the point that the company was worth a record-breaking $624 billion. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. .”

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

His company has set out to create a digital education platform similar to Lynda.com, but focused on hands-on trades. The company dates back to 2010, when it developed computer-based training simulations and courses for vocational programs serving the energy industry.

lynda.com 165

lynda.com Training Industry Company 165

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people.

Technology 40

Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Manufacturing, which shed nearly a third of its workforce between 2000 and 2010 , is rebounding as a solid path to the middle class. But the strong economy, and the return of manufacturing operations to the United States as labor costs rise abroad , have led some companies to add jobs. Photo: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

Industry 107

Industry Robotics Study Company 107

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. based technology companies is African-American or Latino/Hispanic, and only one is a woman—Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM. The Startling Stats Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of U.S.

Industry 60

Industry STEM Software Course 60

techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Baltimore, MD – July 12, 2018 – Edtech company Workbench Education today announced the expansion of a partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for the 2018 - 2019 school year. An emphasis was placed on using these products to provide students with a hands-on, PBL learning experience.

Future Ready 48

Future Ready Elementary Industry Education 48

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. And if you’re still wondering about our robot overlords and where they fit in—well, what do you think the current K-12 boom in coding is for?

Analysis 161

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 161

ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. Board Games.

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Exercises System Software Comparison 40

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs. No single child designed a complete machine.

Robotics 28

Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots. million workers with a high school education or less lost their jobs, and collectively they have gained only 80,000 net jobs since the recovery began in 2010. During the recession, 5.6

Dropout 40

Dropout Industry Policies Robotics 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Matthew Porter, a student at Craig High School, inspects a “collaborative” robot at Prent Corporation, in Janesville, Wisconsin. The high school students clustered around a four-foot-tall red robot with long arms and cartoonish eyes. A student at Parker High School, in Janesville, Wisconsin, shows off the robot he has programmed.

Robotics 110

Robotics Learning Company Report 110

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board. billion allocated annually by the federal government for research.

Industry 85

Industry Trends System STEM 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

Technology 73

Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73