Money, Machines, and More

Educator Rachel and engineer Pius introduce Season 4 and brainstorm about what interests us in K-12 engineering education today. We talk about school finance reform, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and more. Related to this episode: • Lego programming: https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/learn-to-program • Article on Facebook security breach in 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html • Article on the Stuxnet virus applied to an Iranian power plant: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/06/01/154162121/as-the-worm-turns-cybersecurity-expert-tracks-blowback-from-stuxnet • AP CS Principles: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-computer-science-principles/course • Texas Legislative Sessions: http://www.tcdd.texas.gov/public-policy/texas-legislature/ • Article on how school finance works right now in Texas and “Robin Hood” funding: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/15/texas-school-funding-how-it-works/ • The Texas Permanent School Fund: https://tea.texas.gov/finance_and_grants/permanent_school_fund/ • SBOE = State Board of Education • Example food web in biology: https://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]:YevkaNFi@3/Energy-Flow-through-Ecosystems#fig-ch20_01_05 • TxDOT = Texas Department of Transportation: https://www.txdot.gov/ • Previous episode mentioning on improv for engineering: http://www.k12engineering.net/transcripts/ep9.html • Inside the Actor’s Studio: https://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio • FERPA student privacy law: https://www.colorado.edu/registrar/students/records/ferpa • PLC = Professional Learning Community • Engineering Word Of The Day podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com/ • Mozilla Foundation: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/ • Elon Musk warns about climate change in 2015: https://www.inc.com/huffington-post/elon-musk-sounds-off-on-climate-change.html Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.