Sentences with phrase «education technology like»

In fact, education technologies like Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox, or Learn Zillion enable personalization no more than a paper formative assessment.

Not exact matches

Countries like China, South Korea, India, and Japan are already investing much more money on technology education — specifically in robotics and manufacturing — compared to the U.S., the report says.

Broadly, there tend to be more men in high - paying fields like technology, and more women in lower - paid ones such as education, creating much of the imbalance, said management consultant Steve Tobak, managing partner for Invisor Consulting in California.

If Trump (or Congress) carved H - 1B into industry pools like Technology, Education, Finance, etc., the State Department could match quotas and salary minimums to the correct levels for each industry.

Note that he mentions cultured meat before other moonshots you're probably more familiar with, like 3 - D printing, virtual reality, self - driving cars, and improving education through technology.

It will showcase films on things like women's rights, education, animal welfare, sustainable living and technology.

I think you'll see technology that will solve development problems as well like education.

Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

The new fund is expected to invest about half of its money domestically in areas like health care, education and clean energy technologies.

The report suggests that the major VR and AR areas that will be generating revenue fall into one of three categories: Content (gaming, film and TV, health care, education, and social); hardware and distribution (headsets, input devices like handheld controllers, graphics cards, video capture technologies, and online marketplaces); and software platforms and delivery services (content creation tools, capture, production, and delivery software, video game engines, analytics, file hosting and compression tools, and B2B and enterprise uses).

But new technologies like artificial intelligence and online education, increased domestic energy production and slowing growth in the cost of health care have prompted Mr. Cowen to reappraise the country's prospects.

There is also an opportunity to connect Canadian businesses with new and like - minded partners in APEC economies such as Vietnam, where Canadian companies will find opportunities in sectors such as agri - food, education and training, information and communication technologies (ICT), clean tech and financial technology, as well as other services.

Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P - TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me.

It is questions like these that have provoked the simple answer in much of the university today, not only in the United States but in Europe and Asia as well: Drop the idea of a core education altogether, especially when we know that what we really need to be studying is science, technology, and economics.

An ESA is like a school voucher because it offers eligible families state - funded access to private school tuition, but unlike a school voucher, the ESA deposits money into an account that families can use for other expenses besides school tuition — for transportation or education - related technology, for example.

With 96 percent of the votes tallied Tuesday night, Park Ridge District 64 looked like it was heading for victory on a $ 23 million bond issue to build a new middle school and to upgrade technology, and on an education fund property - tax increase of 59 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation to pay for operating expenses.

Names like Former Ministers of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah; Employment and Labor Relations, Haruna Iddrisu; Roads and Highways; Inusah Fuseini; Education, Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang; Foreign Affairs, Hannah Serwah Tetteh; Trade and Industry; Dr Ekow Spio Gabrah; Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, former Minister of State and Mahama Ayariga, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovations, are all reported interested in leading the NDC into the 2020 election.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

A full review of the Obama science policy legacy would have to cover many things, including scientific integrity, open data, STEM education, the creation of high - level positions like the Chief Technology Officer, and an embrace of climate science and the R&D tax credit.

Canada, like much of the rest of the world, is suffering from a shortage of teachers, particularly in secondary level science, math, and technology education.

«We now had the technology to take a world - class education that had only been available to a tiny handful of students who were privileged to attend an institution like Stanford, and make it available to such a broad group of people.»

They found that the most obvious positive impact of technology on education was reflected in cognitive tools that helped show what was being studied — like a demonstration of how a cell divides, or the details of the internal organs of a medical patient.

Today, Marchis dedicates most of his energy to instruments capable of imaging and characterizing Earth - like exoplanets by being involved in education, public outreach, technology, and scientific investigations related to those ambitious projects both in the United States and in Europe.

A recent study by Queensland University of Technology found that online daters tend to select partners who have completed the same level of formal education; in other words, like attracts like.

Just like VR, Augmented Reality (AR) is set to have a huge impact on education technology.

With each of these technologies, there are strong marketing efforts by the product developers to convince you that you need them, and it will make your education district look like it is ahead of the game.

Within its market report, Immersive Technology in Education, it states that, «In time, these robots will transform into intelligent tutors that consider a user's interests, likes and mental state; enabling them to interact in a more proactive and human - like manner, thus providing a more holistic learning path and support system.»

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

In his vision of education, technology is like oxygen: It's everywhere, essential, and invisible.

Education technology needs to be adapted to the teacher and the classroom, almost like the perfect surround sound system.

BESA director Caroline Wright examines the current usage of audio visual and mobile technology in education, what the barriers to adoption are, and what future trends may look like

More than that, some teachers did not believe in the technology — until I was able to teach special education students to do wonderful things, like read.

Washington — Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell has asked his newly appointed «Task Force on Educational Technology» to prepare a report that, like the much - heralded «A Nation at Risk,» will convey its message «so powerfully and eloquently that there will be attention paid to it.»

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

As online learning gains share and transforms our education system, for some time I have argued that foundations and philanthropists would be wise to spend their dollars in moving public policy, creating proof points, and the like to create smarter demand and not invest on the supply side in the technology products and solutions themselves.

Though some industries like Banking and Education sectors are clearly early adopters, it is evident that all organizations stand to benefit from technology - aided learning.

Like the Empire and many, many, many other reform movements, today's education reform also seems to place an outsized faith in technology.

Funders get excited about things like small high schools, education technology, or a local teacher - pay initiative and they dive in.

When it comes to technology and education, I feel the message is quite simple: technology gives us the ability to connect, share and learn like never before.

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

With this is mind, we all have to agree what education should be like for the coming decade, but few could argue that any strategy that ignores the technology our children use every day and that permeates working lives, will risk failure.»

It also means that many philanthropists eager to create the next «sexy» innovation in education should instead focus on scaling relatively simpler combinations of technology with teachers in Station Rotation models and the like.

It is easy to develop the world's best technologies compared with how hard it is to bust up a big bureaucracy like the public education system with the enormous numbers of jobs dependent on it and industries that feed it.

Deb sets the strategic vision for Scitent's eLearning business and technology services, applying nearly 25 years of experience in education to help organizations like the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) develop their eLearning business.

Dr Chalmers tells Teacher her message to EPPC 2016 delegates will be around the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), robotics and coding in schools, what it looks like in practice and how members of the education community can work together.

The reason why it is worse now and it was never quite like that before is because we will not be able to rely on large centres of research and development - Keele, Loughborough, Nottingham - Trent, Exeter - all of these have withdrawn from initial teacher training education [for design and technology].»

Deb sets the strategic vision for Scitent's eLearning business and technology services, applying nearly 25 years of experience in education to help organizations like the American Heart Association (AHA) and...

The Master of Education help teachers explore how science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) can be applied in schools, what a STEM curriculum might look like, and ways to facilitate teaching and learning that is effective across all phases of schooling.

Brennan is quick to deflect the credit, giving it back to the students themselves, especially the many students from the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program who, like Chung, interned at the Media Lab.

With the rise of wearables like Virtual Reality (VR) and Google Glass headsets as well as smartwatches, wearable technology has proven that its place in higher education and even corporate training is perhaps just as viable as its place in entertainment.