Editor’s note: In an excerpt from her upcoming book, professor and inventor Marina Umaschi Bers shows how coding can help students learn human ... | Continue reading
This summer yielded a surprising announcement in the world of online education: that edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a ... | Continue reading
Digital technology has become increasingly important in the lives of all Americans, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, which has made many ... | Continue reading
Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students ... | Continue reading
The first time my mom interacted with an iPad was this August, when her 5-year-old grandson—my nephew—brought it home from school. Gus is a ... | Continue reading
San Antonio, Texas, the place my family currently calls home, ranks high among major cities with the fastest-growing number of COVID-19 infections. Add ... | Continue reading
Getting hired can feel like a game of chance, but it’s actually one of strategy. And one of the best ways to improve the odds of landing a particular ... | Continue reading
It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google ... | Continue reading
Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. This ... | Continue reading
What if you could map every book and article assigned in college courses around the world and see which authors are making the most impact? A project ... | Continue reading
I don’t remember the exact date I fell head over heels in love with coding, but I vividly remember the precise moment. I was in a Kindergarten ... | Continue reading
Tech giant Amazon is making an attempt to profit from the growing number of teachers who sell lesson plans and other classroom-related materials to ... | Continue reading
Tech entrepreneur Fred Singer is the CEO and founder of Echo360, a company which he launched after a visit to his son’s classroom. Singer has funded ... | Continue reading
THE DAY STARTED OUT LIKE MOST. Around 6 o’clock on a fall morning in 2018, Jordan sat down at her desk, donned her headset, and logged in to her ... | Continue reading
Before they founded a company together, Freddy Vega and Christian Van Der Henst were rivals.They had two different companies that provided services to ... | Continue reading
Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education plan to join forces in an all-stock merger. The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would create the ... | Continue reading
Coursera, a global online learning platform that offers courses, certificates and degrees from more than 150 universities, announced Thursday it had ... | Continue reading
In the 10 months since Girls Who Code announced a set of policy recommendations aimed at closing the gender gap in K-12 computer science, the national ... | Continue reading
As misinformation continues to spread, a growing number of organizations are jumping in to help young people develop critical thinking skills, ... | Continue reading
On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive, there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.”That tagline ... | Continue reading
Just a little over a month into 2019, already about a dozen cybersecurity incidents have struck U.S. school districts. And if the past is any ... | Continue reading
Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. ... | Continue reading
Researchers, filmmakers, teachers, policymakers and technologists gathered in Washington, D.C. this morning to continue the growing national ... | Continue reading
Join Education Innovation Conference to meet the key decision makers, influencers and experts from educational institutions, technology, policy, ... | Continue reading
Is there a disconnect in current efforts to teach computer science? Some teachers think so. In a new survey, 88 percent of teacher respondents said ... | Continue reading
Like moths to a flame, curious and tech-savvy students have always pushed the limits of what educators deem ‘acceptable use’ of school technology. This ... | Continue reading
Depending on whom you ask, degrees are either increasing in value or about to disappear into the dustbin of history. A new report by The Brookings ... | Continue reading
Early-childhood education is critical to helping children establish a strong foundation for growth. But a shortage of providers has created what the ... | Continue reading
It makes perfect sense why there is a push for personalized learning in our schools. It is a well-intentioned response to the standardized curriculum ... | Continue reading
In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online ... | Continue reading