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Remote Meeting Tips

The Innovative Educator

In 2017 MarketWatch predicted 50% of the workforce would be working remotely by now. Roles Assigning roles will help your remote meetings run more smoothly. Share the link to a shared notes document at the start of the meeting and let everyone have edit access so they can share relevant materials or documents there.

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Benetech, Macmillan Pioneer Effort to Make All Digital Books ‘Born Accessible’

Edsurge

Among its main social-impact missions is to ensure that educational texts—print or digital—are accessible to every learner, regardless of impairment or disability. If we can push that accessibility work upstream to the publisher, all of a sudden that book is born accessible,” says Turner. “If Department of Education in 2017.

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New Webinar: "The 2017 Clovis, New Mexico Library Shootings: The Teenage Attacker Reveals His Motives"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 2017 Clovis, New Mexico Library Shootings: The Teenage Attacker Reveals His Motives Part of the Library 2.0 On August 28, 2017, he walked into the Clovis-Carver Library, in downtown Clovis, New Mexico, went into the public restroom and loaded a pistol he had stolen from his father’s unlocked gun safe at home. We know what happened.

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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. Make it official by planning out the details such as meeting time and structure. Competitive video gaming has quickly risen to the ranks of “real sports” in many vital ways.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

Edsurge

Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. Our main goal is to give access to world-class technical education for folks who may not otherwise have it.” Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

Many schools employ the use of a web filter to meet these requirements; however, administrators required new solutions that extended protection to school-owned devices at home. “Teachers will have access to expanded professional development programs.” The proposal must meet Florida Department of Education criteria.

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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

Though an estimated one-third of US workers across industries and occupations would benefit from developing digital skills—particularly among workers of color —fewer than 10 percent of people who need digital skills training and support are able to access education services due to longstanding systemic inequities.