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What You Need to Know Now 3/8/2018

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  • Non-Scientific Americans Want Kids Getting into Science

    More than nine in 10 respondents to a new survey consider the world a better place because of science. Almost eight in 10 consider the best days of science still to come. And two-thirds are excited about the impact of science on society in the future.

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  • Apps and Online Programs Main Means for Teens to Cope with Stress

    Turning to apps and online tools is the most popular way for teenagers to deal with stress. And they report feeling a lot of it.

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  • Keynote: Jon Corippo, Interim Executive Director, CUE

    CUE is an ed tech association on the move. Known nationally for its annual conference in Palm Springs (coming up March 14–17), which typically attracts 5,000 to 7,000 attendees — a massive figure for a regional organization — CUE is ramping up its efforts in several areas in the coming year, including teacher professional development and advocacy of education issues like E-rate, net neutrality and student data privacy.

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  • What Is COPPA?

    Learn what teachers need to know about this important law.

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  • Nintendo Reveals Toy-Con Garage Invention System for Labo

    Nintendo plans to release the highly anticipated Labo for Switch gaming systems April 20. Today at an event in San Francisco, the company revealed a unique component that adds a new dimension of invention and node-based coding to the mixed-reality system — Toy-Con Garage.

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  • Amazon Updates Guidance on AWS and FERPA

    More than two years after issuing guidance on FERPA compliance and Amazon Web Services, Amazon has updated the whitepaper to lay out the company's "shared responsibility model" and give specific guidance on 24 different AWS services.

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  • Online Challenge Seeks Digital Citizen Teaching Ideas

    The Teachers Guild is using a 14-week online challenge to generate new ideas on how to "empower students to be better digital students." The top three entrants will receive a year of International Society for Technology in Education membership and the opportunity to present their ideas at ISTE's annual conference in June.

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  • Discovery Selling Majority Stake in Discovery Education

    Discovery Communications announced that it's letting go of a majority ownership stake in its K–12 education subsidiary, Discovery Education, whose ed tech portfolio ranges from textbooks to educational multimedia to a major educator network. A private equity firm is picking up a controlling interest in Discovery Education for $120 million.

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