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 addition, our school system was awarded with a $27,000 grant from the Decatur City Schools Foundation supported by Rep. It was my first full-time teaching job. Terri Collins.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

When we’re working on group projects, they’ll say things like, ‘You can do the typing,’ as opposed to getting into the nitty-gritty of how to build this robot,” she said. We need to move from talking about the issue of Blacks in STEM and systemic racism to making concrete changes,” Laurencin said. Purdue University.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s not exactly a move from Mr. Robot , but some students have figured out a way to change how their grades appear on online to someone looking at a website presented to them, for a moment at least. The aforementioned video, made in 2013, is not the only grade “hack” tutorial available online.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yet some of the voice recognition systems today were neither designed nor trained to pick up different dialects, and that can be a problem when they are used to assess oral fluency, says Patricia Scanlon. “I This messes with the speech recognition systems that were built for adults.” In other words, kids talk like, well, kids.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 125

Learning with 'e's

JUNE 1, 2013

GRIN stands for Genetics, Robotics, Information technology, and Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is so new that no-one is really sure what will come of it ( Bonsor and Strickland , 2011), whilst robotics is so mature a science that we now know almost too much about it. Combined, GRIN technologies are advancing exponentially.

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Robotics Technology Outcomes Examples 64

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Exactly how many remote workers live in Burlington “is hard to gauge because we all are sort of like hermit crabs in our own little shells and under our own little rocks,” said Tyler Littwin, art director at the marketing software developer HubSpot, who moved here from HubSpot’s headquarters outside Boston and started telecommuting in 2013.

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

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 11, 2016

For the past year, I have studied the problem of practice that an “education-to-employment gap” exists as our current education system struggles to prepare students for the intellectual demands of a knowledge economy (Gordon, 2014). Dancing with robots: Human skills for computerized work. doi: 10.1002/ert.21427. Washington.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

When they wrote the LAB charter in 2013, Mote and Tucker designed a model that included college-prep academic rigor alongside life and leadership skills, particularly entrepreneurial learning. Since the school’s launch in 2014, their vision has come to life and the school has grown to serve 479 students in grades 6-8.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. Technology of the future is already here - we just haven''t seen it released on the general public yet.

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Learning E-rate Digital Divide Microsoft 59

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

It’s a system that Lee wants to scale across the country, to help other cities tap into the local education and business communities to develop their own talent pipeline. For Lee, it began with a pair of glasses—or rather, the ones he forgot to bring to an urban planning conference in 2013.

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Training Sony Company Industry 105

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. Related: Is consolidation the answer for Mississippi’s struggling schools?

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 23, 2015

An earlier iteration of the COL initiative debuted in Chicago in 2013 , and since then other cities have joined in and fine-tuned the program. In Dallas, for example, kids can intern at the mayor’s office , dissect owl pellets at the library, or program a virtual robot at RoboMind Academy.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

A bit of history: Around the turn of the twentieth century, folklorists – many most academics at the time – became particularly enthralled with creating classification systems. Not a list of titles; a classification system of tale types. ” – Thomas Friedman, 2013. The Clever Fox. The Magic Ring.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Of all the resources and opportunities my son had to meet his needs as a gifted learner such as acceleration, homeschooling, being on a robotics team, early-entrance college, it was his relationship with two wonderful mentors that was by far the most beneficial, and the one where the benefits were most notable.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But that school closed after she finished first grade in 2013, a victim of declining enrollment after relentless flooding and job losses drove families from the area. It closed in 2013 when the enrollment dropped from 127 to 87 within five years. It’s one of those things that our systems are not super well designed to handle.”.

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Report Elementary Trends Industry 58

Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

To borrow from “ Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence ,” no matter the stories we tell about innovation, no matter the predictions we make about disruption, in time everything in ed-tech becomes indistinguishable from the learning management system. There’s Olympia in E. ” Making the familiar unfamiliar.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Last month, the first 31 students in Bergen County entered the program, known as MechaForce, which is loosely based on a German vocational training system in which employers and educators work closely to shape the workforce. You are using robots, geometry, algebra, science.”. There are more of them than there used to be.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. The attempt here is to try to move closer towards an idealized system that’s not feasible because of costs,” said John Pane, one of the study’s five authors.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. By Kathleen Costanza. “It’s really given our students a vision for their future. So it should be with E-Rate.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

How Technology Is Helping Students Take Ownership Of Their Work New vision-correcting display shows promise Let''s Build Something Together-Maker Spaces and 20% Time A Quick Reminder That Technology Can Be Wonderful Telepresence robots make it possible for people with disabilities to visit museums.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

This panel tackles this challenge from a variety of perspectives ranging from educators, administrators, policymakers, and nonprofit leaders providing insight on how to effectively evaluate the learning potential of digital content, and how the educational system can best structure technology acquisition and implementation. Learn more here.

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Conference Education Learning Common Core 52

Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

There is no grading system and no grade levels, only three categories: New Learner, Intermediate, and Advanced. DSIL’s FabLab , part of the FabLab@School network , was inaugurated in January 2013 with programming beginning in March 2013. One person is often doing the work of three (e.g.,

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And from 2013, by Harvard Business School professor, author of the book The Innovator’s Dilemma , and popularizer of the phrase “disruptive innovation,” Clayton Christensen: “In fifteen years from now, half of US universities may be in bankruptcy. John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. A recent and exciting challenge transpired as co-facilitator of the virtual participants in the 2013 Flat Classroom Conference in Yokohama, Japan.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

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.

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Robotics Blended Learning Laptops Software 68

ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. The Korean skincare system has turned my skin from acne-prone desert to hydrated and glowing in a little under a year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. The problem was with the system. Why would we perpetuate a system that we have identified as an artificial barrier for some children, particularly students of color?” U-46 Superintendent Tony Sanders.

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Elementary Policies Data Report 120

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

In 2013, among B.A. In 2013, among B.A. and 2 times more likely to attend school with a robotics club. In 2014, Google’s tech workforce was made up of only 17 percent women, two percent Latino/Hispanics, and one percent African-Americans. White and Asian learners, for instance, are between 1.3

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Industry STEM Software Course 60

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926. We use the word in such a way that suggests computer memory and human memory are the same sort of process, system, infrastructure, architecture. Alexander Graham Bell made his famous telephone call to his assistant in 1876. They are not.

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Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. The problem was with the system. Any school system can fix gifted inequity if they believe “that all children deserve to learn in an environment that matches their talents and abilities,” Wells said.

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Elementary Data Policies Report 48

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

." Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Powered by Pinboard.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas! We have an absolutely terrific lineup of keynote speakers. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some outside experts question that pay-for-performance model, either due to the risk that teachers may thumb the scale to speed student progress, or because such a system may not fully account for differences in students and subject matter. Related: Is the future of education teacher-robots bumping into walls? Virtual Gets Real.

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Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

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.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 102