The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2023
One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . The effort in Greenville is part of a growing national trend in which school districts partner with local industries to develop curriculum and expose students to specialized careers at a young age.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
The maker industry is projected to grow to more than $8 billion by 2020, and with the maker movement infiltrating classrooms, after-school clubs and homes, it’s no wonder. A new report from robotics and open-source hardware provider DFRobot aims to find out by analyzing DIY-labeled products hosted on Kickstarter.
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Knowledge Avatars K-12
AUGUST 16, 2015
Industrialization brought us mass education, essential to building an educated workforce, but today’s workforce requires specialization and skills that are way beyond group-think. . Is it surprising that the e-learning student dropout rate is up to 50%? Would you use such a robot tutor? What do you think?
Edsurge
AUGUST 11, 2016
Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. The kind of knowledge that humans need to function in society looks different than it did during the Industrial Revolution. That’s the only way they’ll be able to study the tools and understand how they’re impacting student outcomes.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Megan Nickels, PedsAcademy founder, helps Ella Greene build a robotic version of her dog. Last November, toward the end of Ella’s year of treatment, PedsAcademy opened at the hospital, bringing virtual reality field trips, robots and math lessons that didn’t feel like school. “I Eve Edelheit for The New York Times.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2019
They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Higher education institutions are taking similar approaches.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. The strong downturn in production industries in this country can be traced to 1983. It was all the education they needed to earn a middle-class living. What happened?
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