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Teaching Fireworks: Why Zest Simmons Loves Teaching #LoveTeaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Presently, Zest Simmons is an award-winning AP Teacher and Alabama State Teacher of the Year 2019. When her school partnered with the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) and A+ College Ready, she started teaching Advanced Placement (AP) Language and Composition in 2009.

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Do Tech Companies Need To Step Up Their Accessibility Game?

The Innovative Educator

YouTube The most accessible social platform of those presented is Google's YouTube. In 2009 Berner s-Lee expanded that view finding the World Wide Web Foundation to promote Internet accessibility and equality for all. Some innovative users have found ways to hack accessibility , but accessibility should be a feature, not a hack.

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Kidwind Celebrates Top Renewable Energy Innovations From Students At The 2023 National Kidwind Challenge

eSchool News

They then presented their design choices, challenges, and successes to the judges. Since the first competition in 2009, the KidWind Challenge and its partners have successfully implemented events in 42 states, with roughly 50,000 students competing in 400 events across the country. and Mexico over the course of six months.

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Inspiring Journeys of Certified English Language Educators

Ask a Tech Teacher

The experience of teaching in a private language school varies considerably depending on the country you are in and on the company itself. Here’s Monica’s story: “My journey in the field of English Language Teaching began in December 2009 when I completed my Cert.Tesol course in London.

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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO

Edsurge

Another balding founder of a tech company is passing the baton off to a successor. No, this is not the same shellshock as Jeff Bezos’ resignation letter, nor is the company anywhere as big as Amazon. His successor will be Joe Rohrlich, who previously served as chief revenue officer for Bazaarvoice, an e-commerce analytics company.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

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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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. Game-based learning. Online learning.

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