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AI Is Changing the Workforce. At This District, It’s Changing the Curriculum Too.

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By Deloitte’s most recent count , 37 percent of organizations have deployed AI solutions (up 270 percent from 2016) and a majority predict it will “substantially transform” their companies by 2023. Prior to the pandemic, we had a chance to meet with Art and talk to him about the future of work,” Matsuda says.

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

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They were at a family coding event and had been working together to brainstorm an idea for a story, draw it on paper and try out different ways to recreate it using KIBO , a tangible robotics platform programmed using interlocking wooden blocks. He pressed the green triangle on top of the robot to run the program again.

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What the research says about the best way to engage parents

The Hechinger Report

In January, adults could attend two 30-minute workshops on everything from how to set limits to understanding trauma — topics the parents had suggested themselves. “I Meeting every family face to face, sending materials home for parents to use to help their kids, and staying in regular touch with families on kids’ progress.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Preconference workshop.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Bryan’s travels for June

Bryan Alexander

I also help open the show with a preconference workshop on the 14th, one which: introduces the theory and practice of scenarios, creative stories about possible futures for education and technology. From Vermont to New York to Ohio, I’d be delighted to meet up with any of you in those respective areas.

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How Do We Get More Girls Into STEM? Build Confidence (and Robots)

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The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. Fortunately, we’ve found that participation in robotics competitions can boost confidence.

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