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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

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Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! They work on any project they want, such as robotics. For its part, St.

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?Forbes “30 Under 30” Education Leaders to Learn From in 2017

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. From the Raspberry Pi blog : “IoT Sleepbuddy, the robotic babysitter.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via eCampus News : “The 2 edtech fields with the most potential under Trump.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. “Head of Savannah College of Art and Design was the top-paid college leader in 2014,” says The Wall Street Journal. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Via The Phoenix New Times : “The Battle Isn’t Over Between ASU Professor and Cop Who Arrested Her in 2014.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via NPR : “Nearly 9,000 DACA Teachers Face An Uncertain Future.” ” Education in the Courts. ” The Business of Financial Aid.