eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Singapore and Mumbai, India– May 19, 2021 – Emeritus , the global leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire iD Tech , the world leader in youth STEM education for $200 million. million jobs in the U.S.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 9, 2016

The contest is designed to drive students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by giving public middle school teachers and school administrators the chance to create the STEM lab of their dreams and provide students access to the latest learning tools and technologies that will stimulate as well as teach.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

the company offers an app that lets kids access unlimited books, educational videos, quizzes and audiobooks — and it’s free for educators. The startup has raised about $13 million in funding, closing $8 million in Series B in December 2015. elementary schools are using Epic!, Three years ago, Epic! Based in Palo Alto, Calif.,

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

If your understanding of the Compton area in Los Angeles is based on hip hop songs and a 2015 movie about young people growing up there, you’re likely to be surprised by the tech-focused students and schools in the neighborhood now. By Robert Low. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Building the STEAM Pipeline.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

With code.org and other resources, block coding is an excellent place to start, especially with Elementary students - check it out! Code has been in our lives for years, and thankfully has now been mainstreamed so everyone can have access and learn. Robots are cool. Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

With code.org and other resources, block coding is an excellent place to start, especially with Elementary students - check it out! Code has been in our lives for years, and thankfully has now been mainstreamed so everyone can have access and learn. Robots are cool. Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

San Francisco Unified School District aims to incorporate CS into the core curriculum for all students in grades pre-K-8, in order to increase access for underrepresented student populations, specifically African-American and Latino students and girls. Nine thousand Highline students participated in the December 2015 “Hour of Code.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. High school students and teachers will have a schedule for visiting the space to access new equipment and to consult with experts that can support with their current projects.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 27, 2015

I can think about management pieces to make the process more accessible to students. I love hearing how the elementary students and college students talk to one another. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) October 27, 2015. Lots going on in our #makerspace today.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, when I started teaching American Literature at McClarin Success Academy, I knew I had an opportunity to break the stigmatization of at-risk youth. I had my first evidence of success with the Georgia Milestone test, doubling my passing rate from 2015 to 2016. My students deserved more. I knew I had to switch gears.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The irony was not lost on Luhtala and Burns when they rescued much-needed shelving from the elementary school. Clamping the refurbished shelves together, they created an 80-bin storage system that provided teachers and students easy access to the makerspace materials.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. 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. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. A robotics competition might draw iUniversity Prep students to Austin, for example, or a running club might gather for a race in Houston.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? What paper lacks in glamour it makes up for in being “familiar, friendly, accessible and really fast,” said Peggy Healy Stearns, the software designer who created Maker Studio. We need to ask, what’s the added value?”. The 3D printers and laser cutters are very cool.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Webinars are free, but when you purchase the "Mattering IS the Agenda" toolkit you get exclusive access to the recordings. Mark Donfried of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) has shared a list of upcoming learning opportunities through 2015. More information and login details at YouMatter.me. See you online!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum. Then-superintendent José Torres had not designed the bilingual gifted program, but he thought it was a great strategy to give Latino students access to advanced work. No, that is not likely.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Number added to the “ed-tech dead pool”: 4. The amount of investment is up from last year by over $1 billion. million this year).

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum. Then-superintendent José Torres had not designed the bilingual gifted program, but he thought it was a great strategy to give Latino students access to advanced work. Data source: U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. A promising new iPad app is TES Teach.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

" Tagged on: March 17, 2017 770 Apple iPad Air Coming To Cullman County Elementary Schools | Cullman Today → At $340,000, kindergarten, first & second-grade students get 'ultra-modern' tablets. Census data, and the divide among states in internet accessibility is apparent. That's a lot of computers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Inside Higher Ed looks at “ inclusive access ,” which is a very misleading way of saying you’re forcing everyone to buy the course materials or digital textbooks thru a fee tacked on to tuition. “ Tech is making ed more inclusive, accessible to students with special needs,” says Education Dive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

The for-profit Charlotte School of Law says it might get its access to federal financial aid restored. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Mystery Science partners with Google to bring eclipse glasse s to elementary school students.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Personalized learning is anything you want it to be.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The Pew survey shows dramatic downward shifts in Republicans’ opinions on higher ed just since 2015.)

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