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Revolutionizing Classrooms: How Microsoft’s AI is Changing Education

The CoolCatTeacher

It was truly a thrill for me, as a classroom teacher, for Lydia Smyers, the Vice President of US Education for Microsoft, to sit down with me at ISTE. Whether you're new to AI or a seasoned AI-enthusiast, you'll gain invaluable insights into one of the companies on the forefront of AI in education. Check out their new AI Course.

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Teaching Fireworks: Why Zest Simmons Loves Teaching #LoveTeaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, she talks about how she loves the students in her classroom. In her role as an educator at BTW, she contributes to cross-curricular planning initiatives, which encourage art and academic teachers to collaborate on special projects and classroom instruction. We can reach every child. Today’s sponsor: Advancement Courses.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

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The company says it’s making these available to any “teaching-focused institution that grants degrees or certificates,” including non-traditional bootcamp-style coding programs. million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms.

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Campuswire Raises $3.6 Million to Improve Online Class Discussions

Edsurge

And yet, Tade Oyerinde took the plunge in 2014, leaving the University of Leeds in England to dedicate his time to developing a tool to improve digital communications in the classroom. “My Technically, I'm still on a leave of absence, and that's also how my mother prefers to refer to it.” My mom was not thrilled,” jokes Oyerinde, 26.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

He does a lot of work with NNSTOY, and he is actually a full time classroom teacher teaching creativity and innovation. It used to be 30-40% of my kids wanted to be a classroom teacher. So great classroom teachers understand how to look outside of the box. 3 Great Teachers bring their authentic selves into the classroom.

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. Doug, as we finish up, could you give us a 30-second pep talk about personalizing learning for the students in our classroom today? He computes all the time.