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Researchers have identified a new security risk that takes advantage of remote learning to launch a ransomware attack from a teacher’s computer. The attack attempts to trick teachers into opening fake student assignments, which, when opened, can download, install and activate the malware.
12/17/2020
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While there was little effect on high school graduation rates this year, due to changes in education wrought by COVID-19, the number of 2020 high school graduates who went to college immediately this fall dropped by nearly 22 percent compared to 2019 graduates.
12/14/2020
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Malicious actors have disrupted remote learning by targeting school systems in their ransomware, malware and DDoS attacks.
12/11/2020
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Flinn Scientific has launched two new digital lab series for Science2Go — covering high school chemistry and biology.
12/08/2020
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This robotics teacher has found creative ways to continue STEAM lessons with her students virtually, even when they don't have robots.
12/08/2020
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Digital Promise and Verizon have teamed up to offer free training pathways for individual teachers, which can earn educators microcredentials. There are three pathways currently being promoted, with more to be offered in the next year.
12/08/2020
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12/08/2020
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Google’s free computer science education program, Code Next, is adding a virtual component and expanding into more states. The launch of the virtual component of the program, called Code Next Connect, was announced as part of Google’s Computer Science Education Week activities.
12/08/2020
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Gale, a company that produces research and learning resources for schools and libraries, has begun showing customers a new professional learning hub for teachers.
12/08/2020
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K12, which will soon be officially known as "Stride," recently said it was acquiring bootcamp Tech Elevator for $23.5 million. This is the second bootcamp acquisition made by a company whose traditional business has focused on running online K-12 schools. In January K12 purchased Galvanize for $165 million.
12/08/2020
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Learning Technologies Group has acquired eThink Education. LTG is the parent company of Open LMS (formerly Moodlerooms). With the acquisition, eThink will be integrated into Open LMS.
12/08/2020
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An education robotics company has updated its virtual field trip offerings. RobotLAB will be working with Encyclopedia Britannica on VR Expeditions 2.0.
12/07/2020
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A nonprofit dedicated to growing esports in high schools is going independent. After two and a half years of support by the Samueli Foundation, the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF) will begin operations as an independent entity run under the new World Wide Scholastic Esports Foundation (WWSEF). The change becomes official on Jan. 1, 2021.
12/07/2020
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GitHub predicted that Python's popularity would continue since it "has applications across different domains, like data science," making it a "suitable choice" for teaching.
12/07/2020
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Online learning quiz maestro Kahoot! has acquired Drops, a company that produces language learning apps. Drops uses game-like activities to help people pick up a new language in daily five-minute sessions.
12/07/2020
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Among the considerations: connecting all learners with devices and high-speed internet, supporting teachers by providing the professional development they need and then recognizing their efforts with "credits and compensation," following best practices for online programs from sources such as ISTE, SETDA and the National Standards of Quality and rethinking the use of instructional time "to take advantage of the strengths of both synchronous and asynchronous learning."
12/07/2020
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If the typical American student has had to face turmoil in education this year, students who are the children of military parents face it throughout their young lives.
12/07/2020
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The biggest uses for artificial intelligence in education have not been invented yet. But whatever they end up being, people working on AI applications need to keep educators and education policy makers well informed "early and deeply." That's the conclusion of a new report recently issued by the Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences.
12/03/2020