STEM Education Can Foster Happiness
December 18, 2015
Centuries ago Confucius wrote, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” That adage is as true today as it was back in
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In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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Excite Your Child About STEM with a Holiday Gift
December 4, 2015
The last thing your child may think he or she wants for Christmas is an educational toy. In many cases, they won’t know that a toy is educational if you don’t tell
Putting STEM into Arts Rather than Arts into STEM
November 20, 2015
There continues to be a push in the United States to change the acronym STEM (which stands for science, technology, engineering, and math) to STEAM (with the “A” standing for arts). I
Human/Machine Collaboration, Part 1
November 4, 2015
Arguing that some jobs now being performed by humans aren’t going to be lost to technology (be it hardware (e.g., robots) or software (i.e., artificial intelligence)) would be foolish. One of the
Young Kids Can Learn to Love STEM Subjects
October 23, 2015
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are subjects that have the reputation of being boring and difficult to learn. If you’re a parent who was raised with that perception, you may unwittingly
STEM Education: Combining Motion and Motivation
October 9, 2015
“Ten years ago, there was little innovation in education,” Tom Vander Ark (@tvanderark), an advocate for innovations in learning, laments. “Every other sector was transforming itself with technology, but education largely looked
STEM Education is essential for Achieving the Highest Levels of Learning
September 25, 2015
Frameworks and taxonomies are very useful tools for helping us understand complex concepts. I’m sure there were a lot of people who slapped their foreheads when they first viewed Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy
STEM Education Helps Teach Skills Necessary for 21st Century Success
September 4, 2015
“Today’s fast-changing world requires students who not only possess strong skills in areas such as language arts, math, and science,” Boston Consulting Group analysts Allison Bailey, Elizabeth Kaufman, and Simonida Suboti? write,
Enterra/PSC Interns Complete Summer Program
August 18, 2015
Bill Nye (the “Science Guy”) asserts, “There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.” I certainly agree
Education: Saving and Improving Lives
August 14, 2015
“One thing that I have learned from the heroes in education that I speak with here at Daily Edventures,” writes Anthony Salcito (@AnthonySalcito), “is that each individual path to the world of
