User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. Information Access and Information Abundance. What this means for young people is that they are growing up in DIY cultures, where they have role models who engage in DIY and where they have 24-7 access to information and technological resources. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education.

Maker Movement 150

Maker Movement Education STEM Software 150

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Parents have become used to increased information and communication from schools. — Laura Fischer , VP of Content Development, Learning A-Z Looking ahead, it is important for educators to help students develop 21st century skills, especially as more industries need STEM-focused employees.

EdTech 69

EdTech Learning Industry Data 69

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. Information Access and Information Abundance. What this means for young people is that they are growing up in DIY cultures, where they have role models who engage in DIY and where they have 24-7 access to information and technological resources. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education.

Maker Movement 120

Maker Movement STEM Education Software 120

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. We will see a continued surge in demand for K-12 digitized operations platforms. –Russ Davis, CEO and Founder, SchoolStatus.

EdTech 107

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

Digital Divide 102

Digital Divide System Assessment Robotics 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” The idea that preferred admission equals payment stems from the American ideology that opportunity, especially educational opportunity, is a “fair” form of recompense. That is generous when judged by how little other universities have done but it is not much of an opportunity and it isn’t a form of payment at all.

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40