innovation

The Role of Education in a Robotic World

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Hour Of Code 2016

This week the students in Mathayom EP joined the Hour of Code educational initiative from the US. The students were introduced to the basics of computer coding, and took part in an activity to manoeuvre a Disney character through a set of 19 challenges. The students thoroughly enjoyed the activity, and perhaps some of them […]

Education Blog by MaxwellMarch 29, 2016

Evaluating the Impact of Technology on Student Learning

Evaluating the impact of innovations in education has long been recognized as a particularly challenging endeavor. In the early 1970s, Gross expressed the opinion that given the complexity of educational environments, in which multiple factors simultaneously influence student outcomes, identifying and measuring the impact of a single innovation was extremely problematic. (Gross et al., 1971) […]