background preloader

Education

Facebook Twitter

Advance Your Education With Free College Courses Online - Udacity. The State of Digital Education [Infographic] Knewton, the maker of test prep app that also provides analytics data about student performance, has released a thought-provoking infographic contending that the time is ripe for Web technologies to disrupt the education space.

The State of Digital Education [Infographic]

The graphic cites rapidly rising dropout rates in the U.S. as an indication that the status quo in education is failing, and it uses signs of growing adoption of Web technology to argue for that as the basis of a new approach. The infographic mixes analyst projections about future digital content trends with current usage data, as well as opinions from educators.

Its point is that the old one-size-fits-all education model is not as well suited to growing up in the Web age as the custom fit that new technology allows. Every Expert Should Become a Beginner. 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years. Inspirational video, kid invents cancer screening. Video: Why children should be raised to be entrepreneurs. Cubeecraft - Free Papercraft Toys. Three female engineers build toys to inspire young girls to love science. When Alice Brooks was a little girl, she asked her father for a Barbie doll.

Three female engineers build toys to inspire young girls to love science

He gave her a saw, which she used to hack a dollhouse. Alice, now 24, excelled at school and went on to study mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This summer, while enrolled in graduate school at Stanford University, a project has been brewing: can a toy inspire the next generation of young girls to love science, technology, engineering and math? Convinced of the merits of the idea, Alice teamed up with two fellow grad students, Bettina Chen and Jennifer Kessler, to form a ‘toys for girls’ company known as “Maykah”. As grad students at Stanford, and throughout their academic careers, the women noticed that in all their courses (advanced linear algebra, electromagnetic engineering, and so on) very few of their classmates were female.

The Raspberry Pi Education Manual Teaches You Basic Computer Science Principles.

E-learning