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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

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Everyday class assignments and creative writing exercises , like sentence starters, are another effective entry point to teaching written communication. Google Docs lets students collaborate on assignments online, and a well-moderated discussion board can help students share their thoughts and ideas on classroom topics in writing.

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Lesson Ideas for Google Art Project – From Jennifer Carey

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Google Art Project is one of my favorite tools available online. Since its inception in 2011, Google Art Project has grown from its initial collaboration of 17 international museums to more than 151 and is now available in 18 languages. Google Art Project will allow you to create and curate your own gallery.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. Duolingo largely uses A/B testing to try to maximize engagement and improve its learning experience, using data from the platform's learning exercises to develop its AI models and drive both engagement and efficacy.

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As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options

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million since it started in 2011.) LaceyBathala is one of the first students to try the new Pro courses, after finding the pilot version of the paid offerings when she was Googling how to learn SQL, a language she needed for a new job. The company has raised $42.5

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How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?

MindShift

Would you scribble down your thoughts — or would you Google it? Terry Heick, a former English teacher in Kentucky, had a surprising revelation when his eighth- and ninth-grade students quickly turned to Google. “What they would do is they would start Googling the question, ‘How does a novel represent humanity?’

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News from the Y: The Latest Edtech Startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Class

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Courses on the platform range from one on fashion marketing (for at least $790) to one on Google and Facebook ads (for at least $4,500). Skill-Lync After Surya Paneerselvam graduated from college in 2011, he faced a problem common to many other engineering graduates in India: He didn’t have the right skills to land a job.

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Enhance Student Engagement with Virtual Social Learning Spaces

Catlin Tucker

Social learning spaces “provide a place for students to interact with their peers…and take command over their own learning” (Matthews, Andrews & Adams, 2011). Zoom or Google Meet Breakout Rooms. The Google Suite. Google is a one-stop-shop for both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration online.