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Verizon launches free trainings and tools to help educators navigate digital instruction

eSchool News

Since 2012, Verizon Innovative Learning has helped to close the digital divide by providing 450,000 students in Title I schools across the country with connectivity, technology and an immersive STEM curriculum, investing over $535M in market value towards STEM education. Learn more at CitizenVerizon.com.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Oh, and by the way, U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Economy by 2030.” Via Education Week : “Is STEM Oversold as a Path to Better Jobs? Which STEM jobs are in demand and pay well? “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” Imperil!! It’s complicated.” ” asks Wired.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “New data from the U.S.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

The Hechinger Report

Further down the road, this means that ever more Black and Latino students will be shut out from the high-paying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers that will make up a growing share of the job market. They’ll be less prepared to do well in college STEM courses and less hirable by tech companies upon graduation.

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