Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

It was clear to me that I wanted to focus on girls and on technology—because I felt like that's where the jobs and opportunities are. Technology is more a part of everything we do. When they get access to technology, they tend to ask: How can I use technology to make the world better? What changes are needed?

Education 127

Education Company Examples Technology 127

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

After finishing her undergraduate degree, Rosen later returned to school and earned an associate degree in computing and information technology, going on to work as a programmer and software developer for companies including Summa Corporation, Citibank and Southwest Gas. So that’s what she learned to do.

STEM 166

STEM Policies Report Data 166

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 131

Industry Groups STEM Technology 131

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You hear it all the time, accompanied by a standard set of justifications about the pressing need to reform education: something about the " factory model of education ; something about radical shifts in the job market in recent decades; something about technology changing faster than it’s ever changed before. All of them.

Robotics 63

Robotics Company Industry Data 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” I’ll be adding student loan company Quiklo to the ed-tech dead pool. “ Robots will replace teachers by 2027 ,” Futurism predicts. The company, which sells subscriptions to boxes full of kids’ activitites, has raised $7.33

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50