Guest post by Susan Gentz.
The Senate unanimously voted to pass a $2 trillion dollar stimulus package earlier this week, and the House is poised to pass the bill in a bipartisan manner on Friday, March 27th. If the House passes this historical legislation there will be a surge of federal dollars into the technology…
As I consider how technology is changing education across the country, there are amazing new learning models and helpful tools that are being used to change lives. This is how it should be. Every industry partner in the market should be striving to create tools that are versatile and enhance student experiences and learning opportunities,…
“I love going to the DMV” and “Wow, my son’s school looks so different from when I went to school” are not phrases commonly heard around the country. As startup accelerators work to invest in companies that will disrupt their own industries, I can’t help but wonder — why don’t we have accelerators focused on…
Iowa is a top state when it comes to education. I hear this all the time, and while Iowa historically has done well, assessment scores that are coming out of our high schools today seem to prove otherwise.
I first want to clarify that I do not believe that a summative assessment once a year is…
A look into the insurance industry, and why they think they are the perfect home to explore the potential of blockchain and protecting consumers.
Annually, the Global Insurance Accelerator brings together a cohort of companies that are determined to disrupt the insurance industry. Iowa is home to more than 200 insurance companies and considered an international…
Last year then Governor Terry Branstad (R) signed into law SF 274 which encourages computer science in every Iowa school, establishes voluntary computer science standards and creates a computer science professional development fund to help prepare teachers.The Iowa Department of Education is seeking public comment on the voluntary computer science standards and will…
After an Executive Order was signed May 1 the American Technology Council was formed and started last week with three main tasks:
Coordinate the vision, strategy, and direction for the Federal Government's use of information technology and the delivery of services through information technology
Coordinate advice to the President related to policy…
A few weeks ago I was able to head east to Cedar Rapids for a full day of learning about “Agile-Scrum." Essentially this process model, which has typically been used in software development, is crossing sectors and making it’s way to education. The term refers to methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements…
It’s hard to come by a person who doesn’t believe technology has some pretty major potential when it comes to creating efficiencies. What’s difficult to find is a leader in office who has power to influence policy at the highest level in the state to implement changes that create said efficiencies.
So when Terry Branstad was…
With Clay & Milk I have focused most of my policy pieces on the federal level with a few at the state level. But the city level can often be overlooked despite being the level that most directly impacts our life on a daily basis.
Chris Draper—the founder of the negotiation management platform Trokt who…
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Net neutrality is back in the headlines this week as the new Chair of the Federal Communications…
As an advocate of the transformation of learning, I am surrounded by all things technology when it comes to K-12. Much of the conversation currently revolves around choosing digital content as curriculum to use on shiny new devices. The conversation is largely focused on the shift from the use of a paper textbook (which in all fairness…