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Emeritus Expands into K12 through Acquisition of iD Tech Bringing Equitable STEM Education to Adults and Youth Globally

eSchool News

alone that need to be filled by 2025. With offerings from both companies in coding, math, game development, robotics and more, Emeritus and iD Tech are positioned to make STEM learning more accessible, paving the way for brighter futures in STEM occupations. million jobs in the U.S.

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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. Currently, Williams students have the option of participating in two career preparation programs — robotics, and computing and coding — based on curricula designed by Project Lead the Way.

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EduCon 2023

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

I first heard about SLA/EduCon when reading Reinventing Project-Based Learning last fall, and then read about SLA again a few months later as one of four schools highlighted in Running with Robots. On the first day of the conference, we were led by a senior student through a tour of the flagship high school.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Everest Education has raised $1 million from unnamed investors for its “personalized learning” platform. On the horizon: makerspaces, online learning, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, and wearables. It’s a place to “teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture,” says Venture Beat.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

billion by 2025. Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Interactive Whiteboards. billion by 2023. Chatbot Instructors.

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