The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Like many students in the district, she has no access to the internet at home. Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers. District teachers such as Mallory Mattivi agree.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Primo Toys rolls out Cubetto, a wooden robot that teaches kids to code.” ” by The Atlantic’s Melinda D. Via Techcrunch : “ Google launches App Maker.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible.

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