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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: This show is sponsored by Advancement Courses. Advancement Courses is a leader in online professional development, with over 280 courses in 20 different subjects, including topics like online instruction, social-emotional learning, and diversity, equity and inclusion. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Take an online course. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). You could: Teach a unit or course. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators.

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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

Edsurge

As she made progress toward her major, chemistry, and needed fewer courses directly related to that degree, the state grant she relied on covered fewer of her credit hours, leaving her with thousands more dollars to pay. That meant she couldn’t sign up for courses for the upcoming semester. Of course I said yes.” She felt stuck.

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EdTechTeam Receives Google Cloud Education Partner of the Year Award

EdTechTeam

EdTechTeam today announced that it has received the Google Cloud Global Partner of the Year Award in Education. This award was presented at Google Cloud Next ’19. EdTechTeam was recognized for the company’s achievements in helping schools implement and increase meaningful adoption of the Google Cloud ecosystem.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

The basic course teaches students productivity applications and critical-thinking skills that are needed in today’s work environment. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. I thought quite a bit about how important this virtual presence was to me over the course of 25 years. You will, of course, have some very different needs or ideas and I know you will want to redecorate.

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School Counselors Helping More Women Go Into Computer Science: Tips and Advice to Find the Fit

The CoolCatTeacher

For school counselors, what’s key is that school counselors have the ability to look at the demographics of a school, to look at where students are going in terms of course placement. In my classroom, we talk of course about Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, who was the world’s first programmer. So that’s really important.

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