Sentences with phrase «much education technology»

With so much education technology out there, few have explicitly addressed teacher needs in EL space.

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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.

His body of work on the effect of immigration, education, technology and the role of labour unions on employment and wages makes him a timely pick for the 2013 award, when so much of the popular discussion is on the decline of middle - class labour.

If you've been reading much education or business news, you probably know there's a lot of buzz around STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and degrees these days.

Technology continues to improve at exponential rates — education has much work ahead to catch up.

«Revolution: Apple Changing the World» was taped in Chicago and focuses on innovation in education, Facebook's data privacy scandal, the future of work in the age of technology and much more.

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.

Science, technology and education should determine policy not baseless opinions as much.

In spite of much that still needs to be done, we had better rejoice and be thankful, not only for more comfortable living with the vast range of things technology has produced, but for more recognition of race and sex equality and advances toward implementation of these principles; better education; better health; minimum wage, unemployment and social security provisions; and a large network of social agencies that we sometimes fume at as being bureaucratic and expensive but which few of us would want to see abolished.

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.

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With a science and technology background, McGinty is passionate about the competitiveness of U.S. high - tech companies and she spent much of her fellowship year working to strengthen patent protections, manufacturing, and science education.

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.

High school students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are much more likely to pursue higher education and, eventually, careers in science, technology, engineering and medicine — the STEM disciplines.

«A lot of Internet safety is as much about education and the person behaving responsibly as it is about the technology.

As much of a reader and education technology enthusiast as I am, I believe this most powerful resource is something else entirely.

I'm not in any hurry to push them out the door, but as they move on, the next generation of teachers will be much better served by the «guide on the side» [model],» said Joe Blatt, faculty director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

For example, how much can student - teacher ratios be increased, and at what cost savings, by leveraging technology in the virtual education model?

If teachers and students can establish just how much smart technologies should be used in the classroom without becoming a distraction it will help to produce educational spaces that enrich the education and teaching of both learners and educators.

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The much anticipated four - day event, now in its 32nd year, will once again present education professionals with an opportunity to see and test the latest and most ground ‑ breaking technologies, giving them a taste of how those technologies can be used to revolutionise learning.

Chris Burgess, Senior Product Manager at RM Education, says: «The prevalence of cloud technologies is making lives much easier for network teams; they no longer need to manage kit, install updates and, in most cases, fix servers, as this can all be done much more cost effectively through cloud technologies.

It is hard for us to convince students that they need to have technology skills when they don't experience much of it in their education and they don't see it being modeled during their field experience.

Even so, the much - heralded expectations for education technology to truly transform teaching and learning are not yet fully realized.

Technology has much to offer education and training.

We need to engage more with the leading thinkers in economics, political science, technology, sociology, and other disciplines who will push us to be much more rigorous and creative in the way we approach problems in education.

Its major finding was that most parents actually want pretty much the same things from their schools: a solid core curriculum in reading and math, an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

While these research findings leave much to be explained, they do highlight an important implication for K - 12 education today: mobile media technology can be a powerful learning motivator.

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.»

Some noted that for much of Jobs's life, he had, ironically perhaps, been skeptical of the positive impact technology could make on education.

When we finally learn that technology alone won't transform education — even as it will almost certainly be a critical ingredient in the transformation — we'll be in a much better place.

L&T graduates are working as teachers, teaching coaches and mentors, department heads, curriculum specialists, outdoor education directors, technology specialists, professional development consultants, and much more, often pioneering new and dynamic roles within their existing institutions.

Even though the education world has changed around it — as have technology, mobility, fiscal conditions, demographics, and so much more — it remains essentially stuck where it was in 1975 when the first major national law in this realm (now known as the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act or IDEA) waeducation world has changed around it — as have technology, mobility, fiscal conditions, demographics, and so much more — it remains essentially stuck where it was in 1975 when the first major national law in this realm (now known as the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act or IDEA) waEducation Act or IDEA) was passed.

E-safety isn't about technology so much as education.

One of the key takeaways was that paper - free processes are a much more realistic goal than going completely paper ‑ free and there are a number of technologies — both specific to education and more general — that can play a role in this.

One of the key takeaways was that paper - free processes are a much more realistic goal than going completely paper - free and there are a number of technologies, both specific to education and more general, that can play a role in this.

As at any level of K - 12 education, teachers» technology skills and interest also play a major role in how much computers are used in the high school classroom.

I feel so lucky to have a partner who shares my core interest in education, but also has amazing depth and passion in a field I don't know much about (technology in education).

And in the process, Boser acknowledges one of the fundamental contradictions related to this accrued scientific knowledge of education and human development: At no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

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Rocketship Education, a CMO based in northern California, uses a «hybrid» model that combines learning technology with great teaching to deliver outstanding results at much lower school site — level costs.

Far from seeing technology as a threat, much of the education sector is gleefully embracing the power of the digital era.

Educational technology (EdTech) is very much a part of our education system today.

Integrating technology successfully in education is not so much a matter of choosing the right device, the right amount of time to spend with it, the best software or the right digital textbook.

Federal officials have dramatically overhauled the E-rate program to prioritize expanded support for broadband and wireless connectivity, through the approval of a series of changes that have been widely hailed by education, library, technology, and industry groups as much needed and long overdue.

«A key role of education is to prepare children for their adult life,» says Andy Bush, electronics product development manager at TTS - Group Ltd. «We very much live in a technological society and that's highly unlikely to change; children should leave school feeling confident to use any technology and able to get the best out of it.

On one hand, principals say they're worried about technology's potentially harmful effects: A full 95 percent believe their students are using screens too much at home, and 83 percent say they're at least «moderately concerned» about how students use social media outside of school, according to a new national survey of school - based leaders conducted by the Education Week Research Center.

They fear the possible end to traditional print books altogether, that too much control over our children's education will be in the hands of Apple, that outfitting each student with an iPad and requisite IT support will create additional financial burdens on school budgets, and that existing access gaps may be widened when some schools can not afford the technology.

«We were trying to solve the problem of so much research being inaccessible,» said Karen Cator, president and CEO of Digital Promise, a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit that advocates for schools to devise and share methods for using education technology effectively.