Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 21, 2015

I am a part of Team 4443: Sock Monkeys and we are a robotics team through the FTC. Robotics teams start the competition season by learning what that year’s challenge is; they then immediately get to work on designing and building a robot that is best suited to that year’s challenge. What does FTC stand for/mean?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Her voice cracking with emotion, first-grade teacher Candy Mobley recalls the day in 2014 when her school district's one-to-one program launched. I'm getting Blue-Bot robots this year, so we can do coding in first grade! We started using eSpark in 2014 to differentiate reading and math, and it's been amazing. I could have cried.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 21st, 2014 In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Stories Conversations Updates GlobalEdCon 2014 - Call for Proposals Open Until November 1st. More information.

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EdTechnocation.com

MAY 4, 2015

Here are your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 27, 2015! Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. You can also just create fun interactive programs.

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EdTechnocation.com

MAY 4, 2015

Here are your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 27, 2015! Tickle is an app for the iPad that allows you to create Scratch like programs to control your robotic toys such as drones, Sphero , and your Philips Hue wireless light bulbs. You can also just create fun interactive programs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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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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. Team put up a fight, but my favorite album of 2015 comes instead from Public Service Broadcasting. Board Games.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

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. During the 2014 to 2015 school year, LAB’s first operational year, school leaders focused on implementing an academic model that supported both student and adult learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Robotics Engineer. They initially came together in 2015 when they created coding activities around Mattel’s Hot Wheels and Monster High brands. In a 2014 Slate article, she wrote that a book Mattel put out that linked Barbie to computer science missed the mark. Pastry Chef. The storyline was developed in partnership with Tynker.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

One of Time Magazine’s “ 2014 Best Inventions of the Year ,” more than 7,500 schools are already teaching with Osmo. Measuring in at slightly more than an inch, this bite-sized programmable robot is one of the world’s smallest — but great things come in small packages. Ozobot Bit. Dash and Dot. Gizmos and Gadgets Kit.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. percent of the Valley’s tech professionals are Latino and 2.2

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. The Tool and School-Starters Forbes again tipped its hat to several tool-makers and edtech innovators.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning. The spaces in the district focus on robotics, coding and creating. The first one was created at the Los Robles Dual Immersion Academy in 2014.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. The issue was why in 2014 Praveen Shanbhag started NameCoach, a platform that allows schools and companies to gather and practice correct name pronunciation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

22, 2015 at 11 a.m. 19, 2015 at midnight PST Winner will be announced on Oct. 26, 2015 on the Graphite blog. Emily Pohlonski , National Board Certified Science Teacher at Novi Community Schools and 2015 Michigan Educator Voice Fellow. Pacific Time on September 22, 2015 until 11:59 p.m. Helpful resources and tips.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” “ Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to target vulnerable communities in 2014 and 2015, pushing individuals to enrol in courses in management, salon management and marketing.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A 5-foot-tall functioning robot leads a phalanx of smaller, award-winning robots—all built by students—stacked high on wire shelves behind it. In addition to project-based learning, SR1 kids travel statewide and compete in robotics tournaments and visit college campuses. 16 press release, MDE announced it would give only $5.6

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

By acknowledging that teachers can have bad days (shock–they aren’t robots!), Climate Improvement from Baltimore City Public School: Move This World partner from school year 2013-2014 to school year 2014-2015: 75% decrease in suspension incidents by fighting. Empathy–it’s not just for futuristic sci-fi robots!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

I met Trevor (name has been changed) when he was a high school senior in 2014. In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. Understandably, his grades were beginning to suffer and he was missing class regularly.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update August 19th, 2014 Perhaps the greatest joy is learning how to motivate yourself. We''re about to announce three additional conferences for 2015: Maker Education, Reinventing Higher Ed, and Digital Citizenship. Floyd Maxwell The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0"

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

So North Star methodically set about reinventing its approach to STEM, with the experiment yielding positive results— from 2013 through 2015, 33 percent of its alumni majored in STEM disciplines in college. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

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. In the 2015-2016 school year, in decision with our fifth grade teachers, the fifth grade became a 1:1 required BYOT iPad grade.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”. Teira Rucker, 11.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

That effort got a boost in 2014, when the California Department of Education awarded Career Pathways Trust Grants to K-12 and community college districts to support work-based learning and career pathway opportunities for high school students. The company also designed a makerspace for nearby Hayward Unified School District that year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Background: In August 2014, Phillips 66 gave a $1.7 The Bartlesville High School and Madison Middle School labs were completed in late 2015 and the Central Middle School lab is scheduled to be completed in August 2016. We are very proud of that.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update September 17th, 2014 One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. Get an overview of the wide range of tools and technologies that can revolutionize learning, from 3D printers and robots to coding, wearable computers and conductive paint.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 3, 2017

In 2014, the first cohort of LRNG Innovators launched with the tagline of “No Bells, No Walls,” with applicants asked to focus on innovative projects and strategies to expand the time and space for youth to engage in interest-driven, production-centered work. Two Broadcast Media, three Digital Design Labs, and one Robotics/Engineering.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. percent of the Valley’s tech professionals are Latino and 2.2

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

It began exploding about a decade ago, thanks in large part to the enthusiastic audience of Make magazine and the popularity of public events such as Maker Faires (the most well-known of which was hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House in 2014.) Sheridan, George Mason University, in the Harvard Educational Review, Winter 2014.).

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 10, 2016

We have also now added mechatronics robotics and dance for next year. February 28, 2015 What do you want leaders to do with technology? We continue to be strong with sports – offering academy programming in soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, rugby, field hockey, and tennis.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2015

The Bergen County class follows the first such program, created in 2014 in the Hudson County High Tech High School in North Bergen. You are using robots, geometry, algebra, science.”. ©2015 The Record (Hackensack, N.J.). There are more of them than there used to be. These days the skill set is high technology.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 27, 2017

Today’s learners can find out what a professor at MIT thinks about the future of robots…and we have to be ok that his/her answer if most likely much better than ours ever would be. You had to search the library, ask the right teacher, or find some type of adult of expert who had knowledge and ask for guidance. They’ll thank you for it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My Brockton alone had 2011 overdoses in 2015. My friends are all proud of me. Limited course offerings. Photo: John D.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. IDC estimates that the total number of shipments in 2015 was actually around 207 million units. 2015 – the phones in their pockets. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

According to the US Department of Labor , the median pay for a software developer in 2015 was $100,690, and the growth in available positions is expected to be 17 percent during the period 2014-2024 (more than twice the average growth rate across all occupations). Many schools are offering coding courses over the summer.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

In 2014, Google’s tech workforce was made up of only 17 percent women, two percent Latino/Hispanics, and one percent African-Americans. and 2 times more likely to attend school with a robotics club. Internet users who are African-American or Latino/Hispanic nearly doubled, from 11 percent to 21 percent (29 percent of U.S.

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