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Batch of One: How AI & Robots Will Bring Manufacturing Home to the U.S.
The age of smart local manufacturing is just around the corner, and today's students will need to be prepared. Here are next steps for educators to provide manufacturing and coding pathways for their future career success.
EdTech
6 Practices of Thoughtful Leaders
Here are examples of thoughtful education leaders creating innovative places where young people can practice consideration, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity in a complex and sometimes overly violent world.
Uncategorized
How Robotics is Transforming STEM in Elementary Schools
In elementary school, students are starting the transition to learning by reading, and robots make it possible for them to work through problems visually and experiment with concepts they are learning.
Personalized Learning
The 7C’s to College and Career Competency
7C's to College and Career Competency, a foundational model that can be used from the classroom to district level for organization of instruction to authenticate and personalized learning.
Personalized Learning
66 Middle and High Schools Worth Visiting
School visits are a great way to learn and are key to developing an innovation mindset. Based on a couple thousand school visits and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled a list of 66 U.S. secondary schools worth visits.
Personalized Learning
Next Generation K-12: 10 Implications for HigherEd
HigherEd institutions will need to enable a bundled multi-provider experience (or risk becoming part-time providers), focus on employability skills and experiences, and take learner experience much more seriously.
EdTech
Robots & Implications For Life On Planet Earth
It's hard to know how the growth of robots and maker learning tools will all play out but three near term educational implications seem clear. It will let kids show what they know, and there will be more opportunities for interest-based learning and deeper learning.
Difference Making
Your Kid Just Said He’s Not Going to College, Now What?
Your kid says he’s not going to college, what do you do? Start by asking Jr. how he thinks he’s going to make a living and if he’s got longer term aspirations. Listen before advising. If and when it makes sense, run these seven HigherEd options by Jr.
Ed Policy
Inclusive and Iterative Plan Drives Rhode Island Forward
The story from The Ocean State of the most innovative planning process we’ve seen from a state or district, particularly in regards to inclusion and iteration. And, our historic opportunity to dramatically improve student learning.
EdTech
Other Machine: Shop Class For The 21st Century
Other Machine Co. produces portable milling machines that make 2D and 3D objects out of a range of materials (wood, metal, plastic). Like 3D printing, portable computer numerical control (CNC) machines have the potential to, “Democratize manufacturing for individual creators,” said founder and CEO Danielle Applestone.