In today's Daily Digest we discuss the growing research into algorithms that will make the use of big data easier, the growing popularity of STEM degrees thanks to a variety of different factors, a recent report that ranks Ohio 25th fo having an innovation based economy, a new technology consortium headed by U of Michigan, and the launch of a new fundraising campaign by the Vitual High School to expand its offerings for summer courses.
These days, as modern philosophers like to say, the only constant is change. With that thought in mind, I decided to document some of the changes currently underway at 1224 Kinnear, but also to take a "deeper dive" into how that particular piece of property had evolved over the last century. What I found was far more interesting that I had suspected!
The Daily Digest today highlights a call from the U.S. Commerce Dept. for factories to rebrand themselves to make them more appealing to potential employees, a look at the strong growth in education technology spending for classrooms in the past year, a California judge's ruling that teacher tenure laws violate the State Constitution, a supercomputer that was able to convince a panel of judges that it was human in conversation, and a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court that upholds the constitutionality of JobsOhio.
Today we take a look at the results of the recent Ohio Graduation Tests, changes being made to Ohio's teacher evaluation rules that will put less weight on student performance, a British company's use of 3D printing to create a phone for the visually impaired, Purdue's new interactive learning system that is helping retain engineering students, and an international competition to use big data to solve climate change related problems.
Today we will be taking a look at the affect that the Common Core standards are having on ed-tech spending, the potential environmental benefits of autonomous vehicles, the growing input from companies to help train college students for the jobs that are actually available, changes to the ACT tests to include more STEM topics, and the average decrease in state spending on education for the third year in a row.
This Monday's Digest takes a look at efforts by a number of colleges to provide degrees in high demand fields such as big data, Dayton's strong growth due to immigration, a new approach to teaching STEM topics, University of Wisconsin's new feminist biology degree, and Meijer's new dairy production plan thtat will add 100 jobs to Ohio.
The Supercomputer Users Group (SUG) meetings held at the Ohio Supercomputer Center over the last 26+ years have, not surprisingly, been bastions for academics. And, rightly so. In order to give meaningful input to the leadership of the Center, they necessarily discuss complex issues of vital importance to their computational research, involving such technical topics as FLOPS, allocations, algorithms, nodes, software, interconnects, peak performance and more.
The Digest for this Friday takes a look at a debate over how effective education apps actually are for children, a STEM camp being put on in Houston, TX to attract students to various STEM fields, a new bill proposed by the Ohio House to give more funding to charter schools that support dropouts, a Longfellow donation to promote STEM in the Durham, NC schools, and a new set of Legos that depict women as scientists.
The Digest for this Thursday will examine new changes being proposed by the Ohio legislature regarding how teachers are evaluated, the unusual number of enrollment spots still open at some of Ohio's colleges, a new makerspace in Columbus that is set to be the largest in the world, U. of Arizona's new supercomputer that has pushed its way onto the Top500 and Green500 lists, and the implications for learning caused by focusing on typing over handwriting schools.
Today's Digest highlights the difficulty of balancing student data privacy with use, a report from Google looking at minority and female involvement in STEm fields, the stagnant enrollment in science and engineering degrees, the strong opposition of allowing concealed carry weapons on campus, and a look at what jobs women are filling in STEM fields.
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