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Final Paper: How Innovative Schools are Finding Success

How Innovative Schools Are Finding Success Tim Wilson Endicott College Introduction             The need for truly transformational education reform has been continually building in my mind as my experiences in education grow.  I have always had the idea that there was a better way to learn than what in the industrialized method that nearly every school is modeled around, but I didn’t yet see a path to what that different system would look like.  In March of 2015, I was lucky enough to be in attendance at the Innovate conference at Graded School in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  The coordinators of the conference were careful to make sure that Innovate was not just another tech conference.  I was introduced to some of the techniques and practices that innovative teachers and administrators are utilizing that are the next stage on from just using technology because it’s ...

Final Paper: Coding for the Future

Coding for the Future: Looking at the Push for Computer Programming in Education Timothy Wilson Endicott College At the moment, computer programming or coding is a hot topic in education.  There is a high demand for computer programming technicians and a short supply (Pinkston 2015; Shein 2014), but does that mean everyone should learn to code?  Learn the languages of computer programming?  If so, why?  What is the necessity of coding that this push from schools is rooted in?  This paper attempts to answer some of these questions through looking at where we have come from and where we might go with computer programming.               A good place to start in the history of the push for computer programming in schools is the ‘space race’.  The launching of the Russian Sputnik in 1957 ushered in a new era in educational reform placing high esteem in the subj...