Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2019

The leaders of Girls Who Code , a nonprofit whose mission is to close the gender gap in tech, and littleBits , a New York-based hardware company that uses educational kits to teach kids how to use technology, each responded to the 60 Minutes segment—which draws about 11 million weekly viewers—in separate posts on Medium that went viral.

Industry 126

Industry Groups STEM Technology 126

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ).

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education. This all dovetails quite neatly, as I noted in the article on education data , with the ways in which schools too are quite willing to surveil students.

Robotics 63

Robotics Company Industry Data 63