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RobotLAB Inks Landmark Robotics Partnership with American Samoa Department of Education

eSchool News

Mindful of inclusivity and accessibility, RobotLAB is also providing robots, VR equipment, projected reality stations and lesson plans designed for students with a variety of learning needs. For more information about RobotLAB’s educational robotics integration and solutions, visit www.robotlab.com.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. And if you click www.coolcatteacher.com/edpuzzle , Edpuzzle will give your school access to the 50,000 best lessons from Edpuzzle, organized in folders and ready to be used by teachers.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? Another session examines the business of edtech, first by asking the class to read a seminal paper authored in 2007 (but still relevant to this day) about the industry. Sorry, simply being a former student doesn’t count.) Class Clowns ” by Jonathan A.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

Edsurge

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Biden’s infrastructure plan would create plenty of jobs, but who will do them?

The Hechinger Report

He now makes more than $100,000 as a project lead for a company that installs wind turbines. More than 60 percent of the construction workers who lost their jobs from 2007 to 2009 never returned to the industry, said Michael Ibrahim, an assistant professor of civil engineering at California State University, Los Angeles.

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What If Students Didn’t Have to Leave Community Colleges to Earn Bachelor’s Degrees?

Edsurge

And over the past three decades, they’ve answered the call for increased access to bachelor’s-degree pathways by creating them on their own campuses. Besides, advocates say, community colleges already champion open-access values and serve a distinct set of people : more older students, more students of color and more low-income students.

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Admissions Scandal, Painful Pivots and Other Themes From ASU GSV

Edsurge

And the presence of executives from companies outside of the industry reinforced that point. Several employers praised companies like Guild Education for connecting them with schools to offer their employees access to college courses and degrees as a benefit.

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