The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Long a staple of industry, fab labs have recently been popping up in affluent high schools and middle schools. Leaders there see fab labs as a natural extension of their hands-on STEM programs, and a way to infuse creativity rather than passive “screen time” into children’s early encounters with technology. “We Photo: Chris Berdik. “In

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. But no matter how diverse their industries will be, our students will all someday face a common reality. It’s not about STEM or STEAM. EmpowerBook July 9, 2015 Blogging for Staff Professional Learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Struggling to find skilled workers, some of North Jersey’s biggest high-tech manufacturers have joined together to help forge an innovative high school program designed to create future employees for the increasingly computerized industry. You are using robots, geometry, algebra, science.”. ©2015 The Record (Hackensack, N.J.).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF)’s The Future of Jobs report , the “fourth industrial revolution,” described as the confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs (such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, and 3D printing) are utterly transforming everything we experience and understand. In 2013, among B.A.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The Billionaire Venture Capitalist will lead a group of promising entrepreneurs live beginning Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 at 10pm|9c on ABC. Determined to know everything he can about the tech industry, Malcolm vows to use programming to change the world. Twitter: @malcolmtyson. Sharon Winter. Hometown: Los Angeles, CA.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. K-12 education, a number that’s been rising since 2013 and has been above 50 percent every year since 2015. Outside of the U.S.,

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research. For more on this subject, see Brian S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D Printing.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ Trump Has Secretive Teams to Roll Back Regulations , Led by Hires With Deep Industry Ties.” What The Oil Industry Teaches Oklahoma Students.” ” Via The New York Times : “In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Start-Up Immigrant Rule.” for Robotics Contest.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” Also via The New York Times : “A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa.” Via Techcrunch : “ VetTechTrek is creating an e-learning platform to help veterans build careers in the tech industry.” ” (Psst. .”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “ VR is gaining ground in the academic world and the 3D industry,” says Techcrunch , so it must be true. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Colleges Will Disappear.”

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