Software: Is coding a must-have life skill of the future?
“Kids who code early start thinking of themselves as people who can create. In the future, you can either be a creator or a consumer of technology. If you are…
Schools using invasive surveillance of home-based students during exams
Colleges are racing to sign deals with “online proctor” companies that watch students through their webcams while they take exams. But education advocates say the surveillance software forces students to…
University of California to drop the SAT and ACT testing requirement
Yes! This is a permanent elimination: The University of California board of regents, in a landmark move that could reshape the college admissions process across the country, voted Thursday to…
Experts slam UW’s IHME model, saying it should not be used for public policy
As I noted, every page on their web site should say “For Entertainment Purposes Only”: Epidemiologists are criticizing an influential coronavirus model as flawed and warning against relying on it…
Disease: Good summary of coronavirus COVID-19 situation
Summarizes possible impacts to the U.S. and economic issues. CDC is planning for possible school and business closure mandates, summer Olympics could be canceled, and hoping the disease, like many,…
Increases in student loan availability lead to increases in tuition and fees
Increases in student loan availability are a cause of tuition hikes rather than in response to tuition hikes. This effect is also seen in housing (cheap loans made widely available)…
STEM: Software development was “dominated by women”- No it was not
Article about software engineering makes the untrue claim that the field was previously "dominated by women". That claim is false; however, the percentage of women working in the field prior…
When Women Stopped Coding : Planet Money : NPR
NPR makes an assertion that 1984 is when personal computers in the home emerged and that parents only bought personal computers for their sons. The first assertion is false and…
High school #Drones #Quadcopters racing as part of #STEM curriculum
A group of high schools in Hawaii have spent the past year studying physics, aerodynamics and learning how to build quad copters, culminating in a multi-high school competitive quadcopter racing…
MIT Study finds that online learning works
Some have been saying online courses do not work but an MIT study finds otherwise: Massive open online courses are not only effective, researchers have discovered, they are as effective…