Edsurge
APRIL 8, 2019
In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. In Fall 2019, for the first time, Decatur City Schools was rolling out 1:1 Chromebook initiative for grades 4-12, so having an effective professional development plan was a necessity.
TeacherCast
JUNE 4, 2015
Vikas from WonderWorkshop first got me thinking about you music could help teach programming last year when I heard him speak about why Dash, one of their robots, plays the xylophone. The trinket team has been working towards this vision since 2013. He spoke about the power of music to help kids understand sequence.
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Tech Helpful
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
In 2013 our school decided to start doing computer-based testing of our lower school students. At the end of the 2013-2014 school year CCS had a marvelous “problem.” From the 2013-2014 school year until this past year that “rule” was a rule of expectation. So many schools didn’t have related arts computer teachers.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Teaching will be one of the last jobs taken away by the robots, because software will never be the same as a human who is thinking about what you’re thinking and can use that understanding to say, `here, let me unlock this for you.’ ”. Launched in 2013, Classkick’s app lets teachers with iPads or Chromebooks create lessons for any subject.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.
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. A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. Being connected, as is required to get iPads and Chromebooks up and running, is assumed. million more students left to connect.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? He also described his product as “a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind and figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are, down to the percentile.”.
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