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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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The allure of “tech jobs” and the salaries they command have given rise to new industries, from coding bootcamps to specialized recruiters. Yet the likes of Google and Facebook sometimes overshadow sectors that have been—and remain—core to the American economy: industrial manufacturing. The Culver City, Calif. “We

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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What Skills Do Google, Pinterest, and Twitter Employees Think Kids Need To Succeed?

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Here's the start to an interesting story: a Google program manager, a Twitter engineer, and a Pinterest employee walk into a bar. In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. What are they there to discuss? But in reality, it’s not a bar.

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A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

Edsurge

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. Since I’ve been tracking from 2016 forward, I have identified nearly 600 incidents that have occurred of varying severity. Some of what he was able to find actually surprised him.

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Diversifying the tech industry, one party at a time

The Hechinger Report

According to data drawn from 2016 data, from the American Community Survey , blacks represented 7.9 The New York Times reported in 2016 that “technical workers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, according to the companies’ diversity reports, are on average 56 percent white, 37 percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black.”

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Schools must lead on developing digital citizenship

Neo LMS

Of course from an industrial or commercial point of view the distinction makes sense, but from a sociological — and in our case pedagogic — aspect our experience of modern life is practically indistinguishable from technology. It seems somehow antiquated to speak of technology as if it is a distinct category of life experiences.

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How to Start a High School Esports Team & Benefit Your School

ViewSonic Education

These include big-name sponsors, competitive pro leagues, college competitions and, in 2017, more global viewers than the 2016 NFL regular season. YEA is committed helping provide high school students with the background they need to succeed within the esports industry. These skills honed in game play readies students for life.”.

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