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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

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“Our mission is to help developers learn to code with the real-world tools of industry.” million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms. GitHub is where many companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, host their open-source projects.

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The Work You Do Has Power

Tom Murray

Advances in technology are disrupting almost every industry, and in almost every country. Take a moment to consider the digital disruption that has already occurred in the following industries (Goodwin, 2015). Kickstarter, Zopa, SocietyOne) The largest software vendors don’t write the apps. .…and now Sears. Goodwin, T.

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

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Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. Here’s what they’re working on: Lambda School The San Francisco-based startup combines some of the hottest trends in the edtech industry: computer science education, small classes, and income-share agreements. YC Demo Day 1 has begun @ycombinator #ycdemoday pic.twitter.com/YOem8vP3oG.

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Forget ‘Jobs of the Future.’ Let’s Prepare People for Ones That Already Exist.

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“Middle skills” jobs are estimated to comprise 53 percent of the economy , and the ones that have been hard to fill involve the use of digital tools like Jira, Google Analytics, or Power BI. Burning Glass estimates that there were over 9 million roles posted in 2017 that fit this category, and the number continues to grow.

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Tell Your Students – These Professions are Hiring Big Time

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Professional athletes and actors make big money, and those professions seem a lot more accessible to many young people than say, a computer analyst or someone working in the space industry. Cyber-crime is a growth industry in these countries. Amazon’s Prime Air and Google Wing Aviation will soon be as common as Uber or Lyft.

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A Bootcamp Down Under: Trilogy Education Extends University Tech Training Globally

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As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers.

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