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Stanford’s Free, Online Course To Build iPhone & iPad Apps Goes Social With...
Photo Credit: David via Compfight Stanford University is offering a free, online video course on creating apps for the iPhone and iPad this summer. It uses videos from Paul Hegarty’s programming...
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Code Pink Video: ‘Girls Who Code’ Trains Women To Become Tech Pros, Not Bros
Photo Credit: Robert Agthe via Compfight Lunch with the @Square interns. Featuring little sandwiches with the crust cut off. #aw#summerbreak#backtosquaretwitter.com/jack/status/22… — Jack Dorsey...
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Columnist Diane Ravitch: Why Are So Many STEM Graduates Unemployed?
By Diane Ravitch, Guest Columnist How many times have we heard the President, the Secretary of Education, and leaders of corporate America tell us that we must produce more scientists? That there are...
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Video: How to Teach Physics and STEM with Shoot-Em-Up Video Game
Photo Credit: Don via Compfight We’ve seen the future of physics education, and it’s fun. Singularity Hub writes: Valve recently launched a free initiative called Teach With Portals that aims to...
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McGraw-Hill Education To Acquire Key Curriculum For Undisclosed Sum
Photo Credit: Enrique Burgos via Compfight Mathematics education company Key Curriculum said Thursday that it would sell its technology assets – including The Gemeter’s Sketchpad, TinkerPlots...
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Training Engineers 101: How South Korea Outpaces The US In Cranking Out...
Photo Credit: sarowen via Compfight By Michael Alison Chandler, The Hechinger Report DAEJON, South Korea—Any eighth-grader who wonders if anyone actually uses algebra should ask Hyungtae Lee, an...
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Why STEM Matters: Texas Educators and Experts Sound Off On The STEM Shortage
Photo Credit: See-ming Lee via Compfight by Reeve Hamilton, The Texas Tribune July 5, 2012 “STEM,” an acronym for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math” is a term that is becoming increasingly...
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Jörn Loviscach: A German Math Teaching Sensation Emerges On YouTube & Udacity
By Paul Glader, Managing Editor BERLIN — Bespectacled, bearded and donning a tweed jacket, Jörn Loviscach speaks with a measured cadence that demonstrates a concern for his students to grasp what...
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Principal Gains Unexpected Perks From Wiring His School
Daniel Hoherd via Compfight By Anya Kamenetz, The Hechinger Report Eric Sheninger, principal of New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ is an unabashed ed-tech evangelist who has wrought some...
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Interview: Knewton’s David Kuntz On ‘Better and Faster’, Adaptive Learning
David Kuntz By Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report When education investors talk about so-called adaptive learning, in which a computer tailors instructional software personally for each student, the...
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