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Despite lip service from the Turnbull government and its 'innovation agenda', an untapped cohort in the tech economy is being stifled by regulation.

During my poster session at ISTE, I must have been asked dozens of times: “When do students use your Makerspace?  How do you organize scheduling?”

 I am in a magnet middle school on a flexible schedule.  I have an extremely supportive administration and staff and an enthusiastic student body that’s eager to learn.  I realize that these circumstances won’t apply to everyone and that I’m very lucky to be in the place that I’m in.

That being said, here’s how and when students at Stewart Middle Magnet use our Makerspace:

28 days of hands-on STEM activities for kids - coding, STEM challenges, STEM on a budget, and more! It's science, tech, engineering & math made fun.

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I was taken to a small classroom where I was scheduled to speak to a group of men about business and entrepreneurship.

When I began my talk, I noticed that the men were fixated on every word. There weren’t any distractions. There are no cell phones in prison.

When I was finished speaking, hands went into the air. My thirty-minute talk turned into a two-hour discussion. These men were prepared, motivated and committed to learning how they could create a better life after they served their time.

This was not the profile of social misfits that I had expected to encounter.

Marilyne Stains will receive the $941,174 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation. The awards typically go to pre-tenure faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.

Stains has already done substantial research on the subject, developing and conducting education workshops to train UNL faculty in new teaching methods. She said she believes the grant will allow her to launch a study that should lead to better understanding of what faculty already know about new educational strategies, their beliefs about teaching and other factors that influence teaching methods.

It is an uneasy time for expecting parents as news of the ZIKA outbreak continue. Hoping to alleviate the uncertainty, students of the University of Texas have come up with a kit that lets you detect whether a mosquito is a carrier of the virus. This little 3D printed kit is intended to be inexpensive and accessible.

The Incubator School is a technology and entrepreneurship driven middle school that is creating tomorrow's entrepreneurs today. We Start-up Students!

Weak digital literacy skills among students and faculty are hampering the effective use of technology in schools. But according to a panel of experts, this problem, as prevalent and pernicious as it may be, is within our power to solve. Some of the other obstacles identified by the panel ... not so much.

The panel of experts, led by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative, identified six impediments that are hampering education and the adoption of technology in education in significant ways. The findings were published in a report released in February, the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition.

The issues were categorized in one of three groupings: barriers that are troublesome but to some degree solvable; obstacles that are more difficult and will require substantial effort to resolve; and impediments that are so difficult that they may not be within our power to solve ever. Each of the six identified trends has implications for policy, leadership and practice.

We provide professional development for individuals and educational programs to assist and support the transition to a STEAM platform.

In August of 2015, the Enable Educators’ Exchange was created in response to the large increase we had seen in the number of educators wanting to incorporate e-NABLE related experiences into their classrooms. How to involve your school with e-NABLE and e3STEAM 1. Get Informed and Connected Familiarize yourself with the e-NABLE community and review the... View Article

Computer science has long been a popular subject on campus—but not like it is today. Enrollment in the program at BU has more than quadrupled over the past five years.

“It’s popular in a totally unprecedented way,” says Mark Crovella, a College of Arts & Sciences professor and chair of computer science. Interest had previously peaked in 2000, he says, “and we have blown way, way past that.”

Back at the turn of the century, when AOL was hot and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was still in prep school, there were 368 computer science majors at BU. A decade and one economic meltdown later, in spring 2010, the number had dropped to 115. Since then, numbers have been upward bound. This semester there are 487 computer science majors, more than four times the 2010 number.

Gen Z’s dependence on tech and tech support not mirrored in their career choices; IT dearth a massive problem on the horizon.
According to recent data, Gen Z demands that devices and software—and the support required to use them—be woven into their daily lives; yet, most of this digital native generation has no interest in having an IT career. So who, exactly, will provide the technology and support needed to satisfy the future generation?

It’s yet another cold water splash on the STEM fields that have been in crisis in the U.S. for years. However, unlike the somewhat vague notion of there being less engineers and mathematicians to better the collective intelligence and innovation of a nation, the fact that almost none of the future generation have any interest in information technology (think: computers, the internet, software systems, telecommunications, data analysis, electronic engineering) will have a direct, negative impact on not only individual consumers, but on entire ecosystems (like higher education) that are becoming increasingly dependent on IT.

A numerical integration solves an integral by breaking into a finite number of sums. This is fairly straightforward to do with a computer.

A new survey by Harris Poll of 644 parents of children under 18 living in the household found that only 9 percent said they would encourage their kids to become teachers of science, technology, engineering or math.

Texas A&M University recently held Aggies Invent, a two-day initiative set to go nation-wide that, this year, asked students to come up with solutions to challenges in K-12 STEM education.

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