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Programming Apprenticeship for “anyone”

  In several midsize cities across the U.S., unusual software teams are programming apps and websites. In past lives, these workers delivered pizzas and parcels, tended stores and taught in schools, or drove Ubers and forklifts.   This train-and-hire model...

VR updater spring 2019

VR technology, as noted numerous times, has been moving along at a relatively slow pace since it was declared the next insanely great thing. While this might be frustrating for educators who are dreaming of the learning potentials in affordable VR hardware and...

Michael Crow, Arizona State U, and innovation

There are a number of previous posts here at PSA that note the trends of innovation ongoing at ASU, and especially their annual EdTech conference with a venture cap fund. This article does an in-depth (40 pdf pages) examination of the lead driving force behind...

Guided or unguided instruction?

This is research on guided learning (modeling, scaffolding, summarizing key points) vs unguided learning (problem based, discovery, constructivist, experiential). While this research is from 2010, PSA is interested in the latest on brain research as applied to...