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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Do students buy into maker culture?

eSchool News

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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Five Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Computing and Education

Edsurge

Driving student success in the classroom and beyond Ivy Tech can now predict with 84 percent accuracy which students are at risk of dropping out within the first two weeks of enrollment. The ultimate goal of education is to help students grow and succeed, both in the classroom and in the workforce.

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E-learning’s Promise and Failure

Knowledge Avatars K-12

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. . The current popular model for e-learning essentially takes the classroom model and moves it online. Would you use such a robot tutor?

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New programs find ways to foster student resilience

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Salesforce , the world’s largest customer relationship management platform, has announced a new classroom-ready training scheme called Trailhead for Students.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Post : “Doctors slam sex robot ‘family mode’ ” “Where Are The Robot Teachers ?” “ Robots in the classroom ?