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STUDENT VOICES: We need more women in STEM fields, and we have ideas for making that happen

The Hechinger Report

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how.

STEM 101
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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” ” Because I can’t tell you how many times I have needed to prove I have a college degree but I didn’t have a digital copy of my diploma on my iPhone. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Woz U?

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

But we can’t claim that the pace of technological change is speeding up just because we personally go out and buy a new iPhone every time Apple tells us the old model is obsolete. Buying hardware and buying software does not make you or your students or your institutions forward-thinking. Some economic historians like Robert J.