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The skillset of tomorrow’s leaders, our nation’s students, are currently taking shape, but there’s a major problem that’s setting them back: the lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering and math, better known as STEM.
10/19/2020
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Instructure is getting into the certified educator business. This week, during its virtual customer conference, CanvasCon Online, the learning management system company announced the Canvas Certified Educator program.
10/14/2020
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Technology Awards program sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and ed tech company Vernier Software and Technology.
10/12/2020
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Could a "moonshot" effort draw a million more girls and young women into STEM fields? That's the intent of new initiative that will embed STEM learning opportunities into out-of-school programs over the next five years.
10/12/2020
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ACT, the nonprofit that produces assessments for colleges and career, has introduced an online learning application.
10/12/2020
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It's time for E-rate funding to support off-campus connectivity too. That's a big theme in the latest survey by Funds For Learning, an E-rate consultancy.
10/07/2020
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Camcorders from JVC Professional Video has added the capability of providing streaming directly from the camera to two major social networks.
10/07/2020
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Microsoft has added new features for Teams and OneNote that are designed to help educators promote social-emotional learning and transparency through their remote and hybrid instructional practices.
10/07/2020
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The United States Department of Education has launched an interactive map that shows how much money each school spends per student. So far, districts and schools in 20 states have been added to the map.
10/06/2020
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The North America Scholastic Esports Federation is hosting the first NASEF 2021 Digital Rube Goldberg Machine Minecraft Contest. Throughout this fall, teams of students will compete by imagining, designing and building machines using the block-oriented game; then, during the second half of the academic year in 2021, there will be a finals challenge when students will string together a series of designs to create a zany chain-reaction Rube Goldberg Machine.
10/06/2020
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Scheduling can be done through Google Calendar, which will automatically generate a link for the event. Translation of messaging can be done through Google Translate.
10/06/2020
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Two software companies, one in education logistics and the other in industrial internet-of-things, have co-developed a system to help school districts sort out student transportation.
10/05/2020
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A joint study has found that school districts with a majority of students who are white were three times more likely to offer in-person learning as schools that primarily enrolled students of color.
10/01/2020
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Most K-12 teachers said their students received less coverage of instructional material in the spring than compared to the typical school year, and most of lessons consisted of asynchronous activities. While a majority of administrators said their districts and schools were able to provide formal professional learning opportunities on technology-based remote instruction to their educators, half as many teachers said the same.
10/01/2020
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A group of national education organizations, researchers and technology experts has launched the National COVID-19 School Response Dashboard, a database that maps schools' voluntary responses to the pandemic across the United States. The data is intended to help school administrators, state leaders, families and the general public review the current conditions of the virus in their own communities, compare that information to other places and make decisions for the school year based on the data.
10/01/2020
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Election Day has been designated as an official company holiday
10/01/2020
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All families consider computer science to be an important subject for their kids to learn. But that's especially true for black parents and guardians.
09/29/2020
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New research has found that female students are still skeptical about the merits of computer science education and show less interest than male students in learning CS or pursuing careers in the field.
09/29/2020