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The immediate goal is to help young people gain digital literacy skills.
07/23/2020
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How much virtual schooling happened during the early months of the pandemic? Less than what the laws in at least half of states say students should be getting.
07/23/2020
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Rural schools and districts have until Oct. 8 to vie for funding to cover development of programs to help students gain skills in advanced technology.
07/23/2020
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A company that creates augmented reality and virtual reality education applications has launched a new platform for creating and delivering lessons to be taught in VR. VictoryXR Academy from VictoryXR enables the user to build lesson plans for a single class or a course.
07/20/2020
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Google has gone public with some of its plans for updates to Meet, the web conferencing tool that's part of the company's G Suite for Education. The basic thrust is to give teachers more control over their real-time sessions and help them make the classes more engaging.
07/20/2020
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Digital Promise, the organization that focuses on accelerating innovation in education, especially through the smart use of technology, hasn't stopped moving ahead with initiatives, even as schools have had to slow down some of their operations.
07/20/2020
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A Department of Defense STEM outreach office in New Jersey is providing a free esports summer league for students in that state, to promote summer STEM learning. Kids in grades three through nine can join an esports summer league for free. The league is being run by DimensionU, a company that develops esports programs for education.
07/20/2020
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A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has launched the "eSchool+ Initiative," an analysis of school reopening plans.
07/15/2020
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2U's bootcamp division, Trilogy Education Services, has entered the business of high school coding with two online summer camps. Those are being offered by Columbia University Engineering and the University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies.
07/08/2020
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With students learning from home due to COVID-19, teaching digital citizenship and choosing secure online tools are more important now than ever.
07/08/2020
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Can machine learning really free up time dedicated to grunt work, giving your educators more time for working with students?
07/08/2020
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Dallas Independent School District will be delivering computer science professional development to teachers in all of its elementary schools, thanks to an arrangement with Amazon.
07/08/2020
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The report was developed with input from a number of design and urban planning organizations, all of whom envisioned how to get people into the facility and help them move around without a lot of physical proximity.
07/08/2020
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A grant from Qualcomm Technologies, a San Diego-area company, will enable the San Diego Unified School District to deploy 900 new personal computers to students. What's unique is that the units have built-in cellular connectivity. The company has also committed to a one-time $141,000 donation to cover the cellular connectivity costs for the devices.
07/08/2020
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A librarian at Montgomery County Public Schools has introduced book delivery services via drone, to keep kids reading during the summer. Librarian Kelly Passek, a Blacksburg Middle School librarian, pitched district leaders on the idea as a response to school closures related to COVID-19.
07/08/2020
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Nearly the entire American education system had to move online with "little to no preparation." Nobody was fully prepared, not the educators, the parents or the students. That was the description given to what happened when schools closed their doors and turned on their Zoom accounts, according to Future of School, a "public charity" focused on giving students access to quality education.
07/08/2020
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Nearly half of Advanced Placement teachers believe schools should be implementing a hybrid approach.
07/08/2020
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A project in North Carolina offers lessons worth learning for your efforts to help students get the technology they need for internet access.
07/08/2020