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Online YC Demo Day Includes A Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App, Parenting Advice Platform

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COVID-19 led to a more demure, online-only version of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s demo day event this week for its winter cohort. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions. The startup previously participated in Facebook’s FbStart program for growing mobile startups.

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WCAG 2.2: The Next Step in Digital Accessibility

Kitaboo on EdTech

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), first published on 9 May 1999 by the Worldwide Consortium (W3C), are part of a series of Web Accessibility Initiatives (WAI). was published on 5 June 2018, with a few more extensions and updates. 3.3.7 – Accessible Authentication. Some extensions of the existing WCAG 1.0

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MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity

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That led Ipzy to rebrand herself as Ipzy Studios, but she freely allowed others access to her artwork, with permission to modify, as long as they credited her. The new version of Scratch is being designed to work on mobile devices, so it will be lighter and more flexible. She was becoming a good citizen,” Resnick said. “In

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

Keep reading to check out brief summaries of our proposed panels, and click each link you’re interested in to “Vote Up” that submission, now through August 30, 2018. How do we bring school operators and community organizations together to attain critical mass and sustainable change in pursuit of equal access and opportunity for all students?

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Here Are the 10 Michelson Runway Startups Vying For Future Funders

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Among the offerings on display at its demo day on June 13 were a structured gap year program, a tool for pronouncing names correctly and financial lending based on academic merit. Though the startups presented a wide range of ideas, Runway co-founder Phil Kim said what connected them all is an effort to “tackle access and equity.”

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How Can You Share eBooks Securely?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Online publishing platforms have undoubtedly been a lifesaver for authors, but on the split side, they pose the risk of unauthorized access and sharing of eBooks. The rights to customize it and user access remain under your control. You do not want people without permission to have unauthorized access to your eBook.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. There were no vendor halls where salespeople demoed their tools.

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