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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

This rapid digital acceleration has created a huge demand for more highly skilled workers who can develop software, program machines, and support new innovations. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the demand for software developers will grow 22 percent through 2030. The world’s major economies stand to lose up to $11.5

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

The Defense Department, in a separate study, calls for an initiative akin to the 1958 Eisenhower National Defense Act to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. Among the students who decide to study STEM in college, more than a third end up changing their majors , according to the U.S.

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

Add collaboration software and students can cast and share content from their seats. Active learning is paramount to maximizing STEM learning. Interactive touch screen displays bring STEM subjects to life. By 2030, 30 to 40 percent of jobs will require strong social-emotional skills. Often no software licensing fees.

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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. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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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? The discussion forum software maker has raised $2.4 ” Imperil!! It’s complicated.” ” That’s the Jeffco Public Schools in Jefferson County, Colorado.