TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 15, 2015

Infographic: Robotics And The Future Of STEM. Department of Commerce report titled, “STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future,” reports that from 2000-2010, growth in STEM jobs is over three times greater than that of non-STEM occupations. The Future Of STEM In Education? by KUKA KORE Staff.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. Like many rural Americans, the people here are place-bound, their educational choices constrained by geography as much as by cost. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

Statistics Outgrows All Other STEM Fields From 2010-2013. The ASA analyzed data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on 160 STEM bachelor’s degree categories granted by U.S. FASTEST-GROWING STEM UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES 2010–2013. From a press release. Increase # of 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But this year it expanded one of the classes, based on a curriculum from the nonprofit Education Opens Doors, to every middle school in the district. Students are less stressed out in the middle grades,” said Stephanie Simpson, CEO of the Association for Middle Level Education, a nonprofit that supports middle school educators.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Over the years, many educators took to Padlet , a free digital bulletin board where teachers and students could post messages, images, videos and links to online resources. For many educators, it’s a lesson that certain free things are too good to last. For many educators, it’s a lesson that certain free things are too good to last.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. Last October, the London-based education group went public on Nasdaq with no revenue, assets or product.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

These companies have committed money, mentors and other resources to provide educational opportunities for underserved communities. So Bryant signed her up for a game development camp at Stanford in 2010, only to learn that Kai was one of the few girls—and the only student of color—in the group. and one in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Prize in Education has been one of the most prestigious awards in the field, honoring outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education through innovative and successful approaches. Family Foundation, McGraw-Hill Education and Arizona State University. McGraw, Jr. McGraw, Jr. What changes are needed?

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

The skills that K-12 and higher education students should know. In a recent interview, EdSurge explored which skill sets lead to career success for students—but we didn’t talk to anyone in K-12 or higher education. Trisha Quan: I received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2020

Founded in 2010 and formerly known as Tabtor, Thinkster offers subscriptions for its tutoring services, with packages that range from $80 a month to $2,088 a year. Valli says his own interest in education began while volunteering with Asha for Education, a nonprofit focused on education improvement in India.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics—including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion—to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. It is the only classroom-based program of its kind in Massachusetts.

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STEM Classroom Industry Analysis 57

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

But a few years of college education can yield big dividends. This is health care for the fourth industrial revolution.”. Related: Without changes to education, the future of work will leave more people behind. Higher Education. The retooling at CCP offers just a hint of the changes coming to nursing education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2023

The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) has selected FEV Tutor as an approved tutoring service in the state’s new Connecticut High-Dosage Tutoring (HDT) Program. Since 2010, FEV Tutor’s targeted high-impact tutoring intervention has focused on accelerating learning outcomes for the hardest to reach low-performing students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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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. The industry has taken a more tech-intensive twist, making skills like practice in 3-D design — like the work Walker is doing — critical for future employment. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992.

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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. based maker of Cubelet robot blocks, has acquired Dexter Industries , a Stafford, Va.-based Modular Robotics , the Boulder, Colo.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising. Gibson had little experience in finance.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

What can we learn from library innovators and innovators from other sectors and industries that will help us shape the future we want and that our communities aspire towards? She is a member of the CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) Board representing public libraries. He holds an M.Ed

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

What can we learn from library innovators and innovators from other sectors and industries that will help us shape the future we want and that our communities aspire towards? She is a member of the CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) Board representing public libraries. He holds an M.Ed

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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. Workbench enables schools to implement Project Based Learning (PBL), STEM/STEAM, and Making into their curriculum. STEM/STEAM education ?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF)’s The Future of Jobs report , the “fourth industrial revolution,” described as the confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs (such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, and 3D printing) are utterly transforming everything we experience and understand.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2017

We want to rebuild the whole education culture, start at the beginning,” he says. He saw a need to educate and employ more natives who could work engineering jobs where they are familiar with the people and culture. At the high-school level, ANSEP has multiple programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Lau, 42, has taught science for seven years at Piedmont Intermediate School, which is housed in an airy, modern building overlooking a wheat field and serves predominantly middle-class families, many of whom work in the oil and gas industry. Many textbooks don’t touch the topic, according to science educators.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

This contributes to falling enrollment in states already struggling with some of the nation’s lowest percentages of residents with college educations. It’s “a vicious circle,” said Dave Spence, president of the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Education Board, or SREB. Dave Spence, president, Southern Regional Education Board.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

One overused catchphrase in education is that learning should be “student-centered.” But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? Especially if those students are teens, within sight of leaving K-12 and moving into higher education. Yes, teens.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. WAR, W.Va. ? A Cycle Of Crisis.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2018

At a time when the women’s movement is making headlines across the country, females remain vastly underrepresented in the industry that shapes our future: technology. Girls Who Code reports that 74 percent of young girls express interest in STEM fields and computer science. This isn’t a pipeline problem.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

These schools are desperately needed to diversify economies that rely disproportionately on manufacturing and agriculture and lack the wealthy private institutions that fuel the knowledge industries found in Silicon Valley or along Boston’s 128/I-95 corridor. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Industry Trends System STEM 86

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It’s time once again for my annual review of “the year in education technology,” something I’ve done since 2010. Has education technology, or digital technology more broadly, simply become banal as it has become ubiquitous? Investment dollars were down, if nothing else. A Note on Methodology.

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MindShift

APRIL 18, 2018

But then, in 2010, he became a dean at The New School, a private college in New York City, heading a division that included a bachelor’s degree program designed specifically for adults and transfer students. President Trump doesn’t talk much about higher education, but when he does he endorses vocational education.

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