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When Education Giants Stumbled and Data Ruled

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Although one-to-one computing hasn’t been as transformational as some predicted in 2010, we’ve certainly seen a huge shift in how kids work and use technology in the classroom. The largest companies in 2010 were the textbook providers. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks.

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The path to a career could start in middle school

The Hechinger Report

A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. That weekend, in October 2010, she sent an e-mail to all the Teach for America members in Dallas with a proposal to create a “roadmap for success” for middle schoolers. Four teachers agreed to help.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

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. —

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Transform Learning by Creating a Makerspace

edWeb.net

Clamping the refurbished shelves together, they created an 80-bin storage system that provided teachers and students easy access to the makerspace materials. At end of year three, still finding that coding, robotic and circuitry workshops were a little bit elusive, they started experimenting with augmented and virtual reality and robotics.

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Yet Another Educational Robot Acquisition

Edsurge

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

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Hitting the Library Circuit With Mobile Making

Educator Innovator

In 2010, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) was one of several sites to receive funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. But in the 19-branch system, only a fraction of CLP’s visitors and staff had access to the programming and equipment. and Catherine T.

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3 Ways Schools Condition Students

The Principal of Change

I will receive emails from parents several times a year about a post I wrote in 2010 titled “ The Impact of Awards.” I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition, a slave of the system set up before him.