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10 Companies Hiring Teachers Over the Summer

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If you are a teacher looking for a summer gig, or unique ways to make extra money over your break, please find 10 companies hiring now. ™ is the proud recipient of the 2013 MCEEA Employer of the Year. Their parent company, StudyPoint, has offered personalized and convenient tutoring to students in 25 major cities, dating back to 1999.

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Google Makes a Rare Education Technology Acquisition: Workbench

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Getting acquired by the likes of Apple, Google and other “Big Tech” firms is often the dream of entrepreneurs (and their investors). Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools.

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As Tech Companies Hire More Liberal Arts Majors, More Students Are Choosing STEM Degrees

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The study points to estimates from LinkedIn that suggest “between 2010 and 2013, the growth of liberal arts majors entering the technology industry from undergrad outpaced that of computer science and engineering majors by 10 percent.” But those fragmented solutions and companies haven’t yet solved the challenges they think exist.

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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

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Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure. Edmodo platform was one of my best app when I started teaching in 2013.”

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K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming

EdTech Magazine

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. Among the tech behemoths, Amazon and Google are forging inroads in cloud-based gaming. K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Google Gets $170M Fine and Pledges to Protect Children on YouTube. Will It Matter?

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At first glance, it seems like a hefty fine—and it’s what the Federal Trade Commission ordered Google to pay as a settlement over complaints that YouTube had violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, or COPPA. 7, to consider changes to the law, which was last amended in 2013. How much is $170 million? That was a $5.7

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How We Disenfranchise Students of Color

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Global Fellow (2013) and Maryland Teacher of the year (2012). Website Twitter Google Related Blog Posts 9 Defining Ways Educators Can Tug Education Back in the Right Direction Beware of Brown Pandas and Revigated Water The Danger of Indifference and Compromise Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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