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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

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Teaching from Home and Still Making a Difference: Meet Katharine from 51Talk

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I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. After finishing I decided I still had a lot of the world that I wanted to see, so I enrolled in a TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico. I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

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In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. What were two things that excited you about working with the company? Another part of 51Talk I enjoy is the depth and knowledge of their training courses for their instructors. About Inkeri Martin.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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