Education – Page 14

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4 robots that teach children STEM in engaging ways

May 5, 2014

Play-i robot

Like no other tool, robots can capture a child’s imagination by creating a fun, physical learning process. With robots, kids learn programming via interactive play by moving a robot in various sequences and using intuitive, visual programming on a computer screen. The children also learn STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) by watching and interacting with robots that demonstrate the practical results of the day’s lesson.

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‘Post college towns’ teem with college-educated young adults, jobs

May 1, 2014

Young adults spend leisurely time at Marion Square in Charleston, SC.

Jessica Duggan grew up in this starchy historic city in the 1990’s. She remembers field trips with her mother to the historic Battery neighborhood, watching tourists “doing the horse thing and the market thing.” She dreamed of staying here as an adult. But she had to admit that her hometown was hopelessly uncool.

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Fewer high school graduates enroll in college after graduation

April 30, 2014

Just 65.9 percent of students who graduated from high school in spring 2013 had enrolled in college by last October.

The proportion of high school students in the U.S. who go on to college rose regularly for decades but now appears to be declining.

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Top 3 ways eLearning can revolutionize education

April 28, 2014

E-Learning carries with it the promise of an educational revolution.

E-Learning has the potential to revolutionize education. It can provide for a truly personalized learning experience, and take each student down the path that is uniquely theirs.

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The ‘impossible’ $10K degree marches on in Texas

April 23, 2014

Governor Perry wants public universities to craft four-year degrees costing no more than $10,000 in tuition, fees, and books.

Bill Ayers did not have in mind any endeavors of conservative Texas governor Rick Perry when he observed that “every revolution is impossible until it happens, and then, looking backwards, every revolution appears inevitable.” But Perry may have launched a revolution of his own with his 2011 state of the state address. Perry challenged Texas’s public universities to craft four-year degrees costing no more than $10,000 in tuition, fees, and books, and to achieve the necessary cost reductions by teaching students online and awarding degrees based on competency.

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The Changemakers are the future of education

April 18, 2014

Students learning to 3D model in Budapest, Hungary

There’s a lot of talk about The Maker Movement in Silicon Valley. Over 195,000 people attended Maker Faire events around the world last year alone. Makers are tech-savvy tinkerers. They build robots, program light installations and hack everything from code to IKEA furniture. From Boston to Beirut, community-based makerspaces are popping up in libraries, schools, shipping containers and buses as part of a revolution that has people returning to their workshops and building with their hands.

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Harvard professor Clayton Christensen predicts half of U.S. colleges to fail in next 15 years

April 17, 2014

Dowling College main administrative and faculty offices building.

On Long Island, New York’s south shore on the Dowling College campus, a fleet of unused shuttle buses sits in an otherwise empty parking lot. A dormitory is shuttered, as are a cafeteria, bookstore and some classrooms in the main academic building.

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Education reform has led to an education gold rush

April 3, 2014

There’s been an unprecedented move to in education to standardize the curriculum in schools. Because of that there has been a flurry of business activity among startups and tech companies to cash in on the education reform.

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Top 7 best ways to learn how to code

March 31, 2014

DaVinci Coders

It’s never been a better time to pick up programming. No matter your age or experience, a plethora of tools are available to get you started or to help you refine your programming chops.

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Code Academies Caught in the Government Sausage Factory

March 25, 2014

Code academies have proliferated the higher education and vocational landscape over the past few years. They are posing big questions on the value of a formal four-year college computer science degree and answering consumer demand with a savvy proposition: come to us for an indispensable skill and we will line you up for a high paying job, without making you incur $100,000 in student loan debt.

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Experts predict what education will look like in 2025

March 19, 2014

This month, the Web is 25 years old. If you think about it, it’s quite astounding how entwined with and dependent our lives are on the internet. Pew Research published a weighty report this week in honor of the Web’s anniversary, Digital Life in 2025. The results are thought-provoking, even controversial.

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World Science U: Physicist Brian Greene’s new experiment in online science education

March 12, 2014

Physicist Brian Greene

Companies and universities that run massive open online courses are struggling to prove their value. But Columbia University professor and physicist Brian Greene thinks he has a new and potentially more effective way to teach students online: World Science U, a science education platform that offers everything from two-minute educational videos to full-fledged university-level classes.

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