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Digital K-12 Classroom Online Summit | Feb 21-23, 2020

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for February 21-23, 2020 for the Collaboration in the Digital K-12 Classroom online summit ! The LIVE online event is scheduled for February 21, 22, and 23, 2020. REGISTER HERE Only 1000 tickets available! ** EXCLUSIVE All-Access Pass | Sales ends January 31, 2020 ** Get it for €69.90 (Euro) / $77.78 Put this in your calendar ??

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The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today! Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S. Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect?

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy. The job market will continue to segregate into low-skill- low-pay and high-skill-high-pay jobs.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018.

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Educational Leadership for Social Good

EdTechTeam

She has aligned her recent work with the Sustainable Development Goals produced by the United Nations in 2015 (as an agenda for moving forward to 2030). Innovation Lab Schools : Learn more about yearlong connections with school programs and refugee camps in Africa and South America (coming in 2020) with Jane Goodall.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

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Google is not going to hire coders who cannot code. Massachusetts skipped state testing in 2020. As of 2020, just 6 percent of tech employees at Apple identified as Black — which represented zero progress since 2014. Over six years, from 2014 to 2020, Google increased its percentage of Black tech workers from 1.5

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