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Increasing digital equity in rural areas

Education Superhighway

Unfortunately, high-speed Internet wasn’t available at Garrison School until 2017. Prior to the 2017-2018 school year, the school received a fixed amount of Internet access every month. It also means the school can finally open its robotics lab this coming year. The challenge. It means one device is available for each student.

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Here Are the 10 Michelson Runway Startups Vying For Future Funders

Edsurge

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. OSMOSIS : If Khan Academy were a medical school, it might look like Osmosis. The Whether was the 2017 winner of the SXSW EDU startup Launch competition and has partnered with more than 500 colleges and universities.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

2016-2017 brought another tremendous change to the lower school due to a grant for STEAM experiences. We create opportunities for our students to not only integrate technology in the classroom but have some computer science, robotics, and coding opportunities that support grade level curricular learning as well.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. Khan Academy ? Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. Students began to personalize their learning and make up credits for failed classes, and they remained on track for graduation with their cohorts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Trump's Ed Dept civil rights chief listed her videos attacking Hillary & campaign event w/ Bill accusers as "top 5 qualifications" on resume pic.twitter.com/U4YHXMWkN3 — Michael Stratford (@mstratford) August 31, 2017. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Billion in 2017.”