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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

Edsurge

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. They help themselves to a snack — today it’s tacos — and chat excitedly with friends. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I am a Google Educator Group Leader and Google Certified Innovator in Mexico City.I She joined AFS-USA in 2009 as Business Development Strategist. I used to work in cafes and restaurants and in 2005 me and friend of mine set up this company with social responsibility. Prior to her assignment in the U.S.,

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

The company said it believes “the topic of climate change is a critically important one” and its newer editions “reflect current settled science regarding climate change.” The publisher also noted that the content of textbooks is responsive to science instruction standards set by the states in which the books are sold. “The

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. ” The photographic evidence clearly showed otherwise – the crowds on the mall were visibly smaller than those gathered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.