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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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Holding the Door Open for Young Latinos Cindy Noriega is a third-year mathematics and computer science teacher in the Los Angeles area. She makes a concerted effort to encourage Latino students at her high school to take computer science classes. But one of the first obstacles she has to help them overcome is their own self-doubt. “I

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) now compares the global competence and collaborative problem-solving skills of students from different countries along with more traditional scores for reading, math, and science. She leverages social media and blogging to reflect on what works and shares her insights with colleagues.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans. It's the engineering of learning.