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Schools Use Trial and Error for Choosing Edtech, But They Don’t Have to

ED Surge

If a team digging a tunnel in Tennessee discovers unusual soil conditions and attempts an innovative approach to managing those conditions, federal coordination and information management makes it possible for teams in, say, Arkansas and elsewhere around the country to access those lessons learned when they discover similar soil conditions.

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For Latino Students, the Fear of Being Left Behind in AI and STEM Jobs

ED Surge

For them, there’s obviously a leak somewhere in the school-to-jobs pipeline. Federal data shows that K-12 schools with high percentages of Hispanic students offer fewer STEM courses than schools with lower proportions of Hispanic kids. At Exxon Mobil, we've been committed for many years to feeding that pipeline.”

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Coding coalition inspires Idaho students

STEMx

Pre-COVID, our team and other employee volunteers spent a lot of time visiting schools, attending conferences and hosting events to help meet these goals. This program is designed to help students explore a passion for cybersecurity or computer science, win recognition for their schools and qualify to win prizes and scholarship money.

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Application of Computer Technologies in the Educational Process

Scientix

CC-BY, Unsplash The current society, in the situation of the ongoing progressive reduction of livelihood resources, should give even more importance to the knowledge of ICT and basics of programming, the initial knowledge of which is acquired during the school years through the subject of “Informatics”.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Some students talked about how the very idea of social interaction was tiring and difficult for them, having spent a year doing college or high school online with minimal back-and-forth with live humans. Others had great internal struggles with emails and discussion board posts, owing to their bad experiences in online school.