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Students Face a Troubling Skills Gap Around Career Readiness. We’re Fixing It With Data.

Edsurge

The goal as we see it is something we call “60x30TX,” or 60 percent of Texas adults ages 25-34 will hold a degree by 2030. Previously, our teachers and counselors were trying to piece together this information by comparing spreadsheets exported from multiple systems that held grades, test scores and other data points in isolation.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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Memorization is Not a Bad Thing

The Principal of Change

Here is a scenario: The year is 2030, and you are having a conversation at a dinner party. ” Yes, you can Google anything you want today, but that doesn’t mean you understand the concept with any depth. Eventually, people start talking about a significant historical event, and you have never heard about it before.

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Education Looks Eastward: Snapshots from Beijing's Global Education Technology Summit

Edsurge

China had a reputation for copying technology from Silicon Valley, but these days the country has developed its own unique technology environment—what a new book by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, calls an “alternate internet universe.” An estimated 34 percent of all mobile internet traffic in China flows through WeChat.

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Educational Leadership for Social Good

EdTechTeam

She has aligned her recent work with the Sustainable Development Goals produced by the United Nations in 2015 (as an agenda for moving forward to 2030). An early adopter of iPads Jennifer remains dedicated to using technology in schools for a social purpose. Check out Jen’s website [link] for more ideas, resources and inspiration.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training. This week, they’re building basic apps and games using Firebase, a Google platform. Researchers at the Georgetown Center predict that by 2030 only 30 percent of jobs will be available to workers with just a high school education.

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The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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