Spring 2019
Education Technology MA Program
Classes start Aug 28!
Check out these conferences - great opportunities to learn about the latest tools and research.
Ed Tech Conferences and Workshops:
A new study by Public Policy Institute of California shows that broadband access is widespread although still not universal.
Hour of Code Week - aka CS Education Week or Computational Thinking Week
The goal of the week is to have everyone do at least one hour of coding. The idea is that everyone needs to develop their computational thinking skills, so it is good to practice a bit. Even people who know how to code (like ...
Read the rest of this topic(Most of these are thanks to Rebecca Onion of SLATE)
Mapping Inequality - Redlining Data and Maps from 1930s about neighborhoods (including LA) and what were considered a good loan risk. .
Six degrees of Sir Francis Bacon - network of connections in European intellectuals circa 1600
Colored Conventions (coloredconventions.org) - Data about Black political organization in the 1800's
Histography (https://histography.io/) - an interactive timeline of all historical events on Wikipedia.
Los Angeles Census Data 1940 Maps by ethnicity (UCLA Library collection)