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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. The effects of these updates might be insignificant to our ignorant eyes, but it makes a significant difference in the performance of the smartphone. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. Bridges the Talent Gap.

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

Artificial Intelligence in Education The Ed-Tech industry has agreed with artificial intelligence amiably. The Ed-Tech space is so vast that it can encapsulate almost every aspect of education, including curriculum development , lesson delivery, and assessments. For instance, AI adoption in automobiles is a big bet.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

Smartphones have been around for 10 years now, but in education, the shifts are vastly different within our classrooms. Authors, industry leaders, and other schools can connect together on collaborative projects. Our fifth grade used the Wonder Workshop robots for a variety of lessons across the curriculum.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Immigration and Education.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

Noakes: She recommended a needs assessment, as Diamond outlined, but said schools often look at the curricular content or internal infrastructure only. Noakes emphasized that the process must include an equity assessment—can all of the students and teachers access the tech outside of school? She thinks the industry is lagging behind.

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What a School District Designed for Computational Thinking Looks Like

MindShift

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. They started incubating coding, robotics and other computational project classes in after-school programs and summer clubs. No single child designed a complete machine.