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LEGO Education, the education arm of the toy company, has launched free professional development, to help teachers learn how to embed play and hands-on learning into their STEAM lessons.
03/16/2021
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American schools suffered 408 information security attacks in 2020, according to the public disclosures they made. That was 18% higher than districts experienced in 2019.
03/10/2021
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New research has confirmed that students in grades K-8 are experiencing learning loss in math and reading due to COVID-19 disruptions.
03/09/2021
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In terms of overall spend, the United States tops every other country in education, investing $1.3 trillion across all levels. That's more than seven times the next top contender, Germany, which spends $189.4 billion on education. However, we're only number 8 in terms of education spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product.
03/09/2021
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Managing classrooms in today’s distance-learning environment has changed and has taken on new importance since the pandemic hit.
03/09/2021
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A Canadian company that has created a kit to help students do climate projects" has found a distributor that will make it available in other countries too. InkSmith has signed a global distribution agreement to sell its Climate Action Kit with Farnell, which distributes electronic components.
02/24/2021
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Starting now, electric school buses from IC Bus, a subsidiary of Navistar, will be adding WiFi as a standard feature, in a new agreement with Kajeet, a company that produces devices for internet access in education.
02/24/2021
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K-12 students aren't the only ones who have experienced learning loss due to the pandemic. According to new research, children ages 3 to 5 have also lost important learning opportunities over the last year.
02/24/2021
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Renaissance is adding to its portfolio of ed tech companies with the acquisition of Nearpod.
02/24/2021
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A company has begun publishing online courses to help students learn about artificial intelligence. AI World School, launched by a company that produces robotics products for education, has developed a set of classes appropriate for three age ranges: 7 to 10, 11 to 13 and 14 and older.
02/24/2021
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Google just announced that the education world would see 40 new Chromebooks along with accessibility improvements during this year.
02/17/2021
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K-12 educators haven't, for the most part, received basic cybersecurity training. Just 43 percent said their schools had provided such training, while 48 percent said they hadn't and eight percent said they didn't know or weren't sure.
02/17/2021
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Google announced a spate of changes to its education offerings, including a renaming of its education bundle of productivity applications and a limit to free storage for schools and colleges.
02/17/2021
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A group of K-12 organizations has banded together to urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to incorporate cybersecurity purchases into the E-rate program.
02/17/2021
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Instructure, which produces the learning management system Canvas, recently announced that it is making Immersive Reader from Microsoft freely available in its application.
02/11/2021
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Two organizations that want to transform science education to be more effective have released a beta version of a new instructional unit on COVID-19 and health. The free lessons from OpenSciEd and BSCS Science Learning are intended to help students learn how people help end pandemics.
02/09/2021
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An international effort is setting out to come up with new ways to help educators and others measure the impact of play on learning and child development.
02/09/2021
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The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and the Smithsonian have begun collaborating to bring curated Smithsonian content directly to K-12 educators through the free online education site, PBS LearningMedia. New content is expected to be added to the collection on a regular basis.
02/09/2021