Dropout Industry Robotics Technology 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2023
Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . It was engineering week at A.J.
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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Edsurge
AUGUST 11, 2016
Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology.
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. Networks matter.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2019
Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. Gist: Our goal is to be the first state to fully blend technology into all schools. We use Google all the time.
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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