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edCircuit: How Voice Technology is Raising the Volume On Student Learning

10/30/2020

Julie Daniel Davis, a former Director of Instructional Technology and Innovation, has recently focused her attention on voice technology and its potential impact on education, a topic she’s extremely passionate about. As a result, she launched the Voice in Education weekly podcast, which over the course of 90+ episodes to date has explored the numerous benefits of this technology in the classroom.

Along the way, she’s been recognized as an Amazon Champion, a Bixby Premier Developer and the podcast was a finalist in the Project Voice Awards.

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edCircuit: Making Schools More Brain-Friendly By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

10/28/2020

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It may seem trivial to say the brain is what learns and, therefore, we need to know about the brain when we consider how to design educational experiences and improve learning outcomes. But until the late twentieth century, the brain seemed more like a black box than an organ whose processing could be understood and improved.

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edCircuit: Student Entrepreneurs Focus on Changing Transportation for Millions in India

10/16/2020

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In this Q&A, student entrepreneurs Anand and Anya Goyal, inventors of PowerCycle, share their experience developing this solar-powered bicycle while participating in the Conrad Challenge.

After becoming aware of the Conrad Challenge through their teachers, the siblings selected it because of the global platform and their positive interactions with the Conrad team. They had already begun development of a prototype before entering the competition, but found the supportive process and feedback to be invaluable, along with the pitch presentation and investor Q&A that forced them to ensure the invention was ready for real world application.

They also found themselves inspired by the passion of Nancy Conrad, founding chair of the Challenge, to honor innovation that solves overlooked local and global challenges. As you’ll learn by reading about these impressive students, they have much in common with this mission.

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edCircuit: Student Entrepreneurship in Action by Nancy Conrad

10/14/2020

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When people think of student entrepreneurs, the first that come to mind are the stories of moguls like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who dropped out of university to create some of the most profitable companies in the world. And while their success is impressive and should be recognized, that type of fame and fortune can make the narrative about the journey and the experience seem unattainable to most.

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edCircuit: Helping All Young People Express Themselves through Song

10/10/2020

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Rowena Atkins, Founder and Chief Executive of Song Academy, is an entrepreneur passionate about the creativity and power of young people. She started Song Academy to be a space that enables all young people to express themselves and be heard. Song Academy’s programs range from online songwriting clubs and school workshops to the annual Young Songwriter competition.

Recently, the Academy has begun a partnership with Soundtrap, which has provided students with access to the innovative online studio, which has opened up new possibilities as students work on their audio creation skills in a number of environments.

In this Q&A, Rowena shared some perspective on the genesis of Song Academy and the songwriting skills they are helping students to develop. She also shared insight on the power of technology, specifically Soundtrap, in enhancing the overall experience of music education and creation.

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edCircuit: Learning How to Educate

10/2/2020

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The pandemic has given everyone in America an object lesson in education – but the emergency response experienced in the spring is far from the blended schooling model needed to thrive in the future… By Amy Valentine

In the second half of the 2019-2020 school year, the American educational system underwent its most remarkable phase in history, forcing itself through a near-total shutdown of in-person learning and navigating midstream to an unanticipated, extended stretch of schooling from home before entering this summer’s intense discussion around reopening and future functioning.

With the new year upon us, challenges persist, but before barreling further ahead with temporary fixes it’s an important moment to stop and ask: What have we learned?

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edCircuit: 5 Students Share Successful Remote Collaboration Strategies

10/1/2020

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Alumni from the Conrad Challenge reflect on how they succeeded from a distance

Registration is now open for the 2020-21 Conrad Challenge, a global innovation and entrepreneurship competition now in its 15th year. As with so many things, 2020 will be a year like no other for the Challenge, as the student teams (each team is composed of 2-5 students, ages 13-18, plus a coach) will mostly be working remotely and collaborating from a distance.

Fortunately, the Challenge has a long history of teams collaborating from around the world and, given that the 2019-20 event wrapped up with the first-ever Virtual Innovation Summit in May, recent alumni gained perspectives on remote success.

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edCircuit: How Voice Technology is Raising the Volume On Student Learning

edCircuit: Making Schools More Brain-Friendly By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

edCircuit: Student Entrepreneurs Focus on Changing Transportation for Millions in India

edCircuit: Student Entrepreneurship in Action by Nancy Conrad

edCircuit: Helping All Young People Express Themselves through Song

edCircuit: Learning How to Educate

edCircuit: 5 Students Share Successful Remote Collaboration Strategies

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