Eighth-grade girls are not only as skilled as boys at thinking through problems and using technology to solve them, they may even be a little better, a study released Tuesday suggests. The findings come from a first-of-its-kind assessment of technology and engineering literacy by the Nation’s Report Card. When asked to tackle real-life scenarios such […]
My Classmate, the Robot: NY Pupil Attends Remotely
In an elementary school hallway, a teacher takes her second-graders to the library, leading a single-file line of giggling boys and girls that’s perfectly ordinary until you get to a sleek white robot with a video screen showing the face of a smiling, chubby-cheeked boy. Devon Carrow’s life-threatening allergies don’t allow him to go to […]