Today, in an opinion piece in the Roanoke Times entitled “Online partnership points to future success,” Governor Robert F. McDonnell and U.S. Senator Mark Warner called for creative public-private partnerships to help prepare Virginia students for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). They pressed the need for bridging the digital knowledge divide to [...]
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Digital Literacy and STEM Go Hand in Hand
Here’s a staggering statistic. Last summer, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a report stating they expect job opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math—typically called ‘STEM’ fields—to grow by 17 percent by 2018 [PDF]. Sadly, current predictions state that American-educated workers will fill only a small number of those available jobs. But this does [...]
My Digital Life Kentucky Launch
Last week, we announced that we’re partnering with EverFi, Inc., a leading education technology company, to provide an innovative, online student experience to all Kentucky schools interested in teaching and certifying their students in digital literacy skills and responsibility. Entitled “My Digital Life,” the program is designed to teach kids how to be better online [...]
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