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. Surveying Teachers and Sparking Interest In January 2018, I launched a survey about professional development on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and the response was overwhelming.
MindShift
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
“Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. This, he says, results in “a ton of compulsive behavior” — around everything from pornography to World of Warcraft to Facebook. Dueling diagnoses.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Students at ReNEW Schaumburg charter school in New Orleans write down their goals for Summit, a personalized learning platform designed with the help of Facebook engineers. 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.”.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 14, 2017
Skye Morishita working on the robot she programmed at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun dizzily across the table. Quintyn Scott (left) and Ella Bartholomew program robots at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. Photo: Chris Berdik.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.
Hack Education
MAY 25, 2018
. “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” ” Via WBEZ : “Study: 2013 Chicago School Closings Failed To Help Students.” ” asks Wired. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project
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