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

Edsurge

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. Here’s a look at some of the education-related companies “presenting” among the 197 companies in YC’s winter 2020 batch. The website will be available until April 15.

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Empowering girls with STEM education to build tomorrow’s tech industry

eSchool News

Some progress has been made–for example, the number of women earning science and engineering bachelor’s degrees increased by 34 percent between 2011 and 2020–yet there’s still much ground to be made up. As a result, girls and young women have a hard time exploring the subjects and picturing themselves in related roles.

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Vernier Software & Technology Offers Free Remote Learning Resources for STEM

Educational Technology Guy

The free resources from Vernier include the following: Experiment and Sample Data Library: Teachers can access more than 250 free experiments covering many subjects to distribute to students at home. Vernier Video Analysis™: An extended free trial of this physics app is available through the end of June 2020.

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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). It focused on improving accessibility for three major groups: users with learning disabilities, users with low vision, and mobile device users.

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Free STEM Curriculum Distance Learning Resources

Teacher Reboot Camp

Learn how to use the amazing Immersive Reader that makes learning accessible to all. Aperture also has a parent portal with additional resources families can access during this transition period. Featured activities with templates that are easy to copy and distribute to students, such as the Hugs for Heroes digital greetings.

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Immersive Reading: KITABOO partners with Microsoft Immersive Reader to make content more accessible

Kitaboo on EdTech

Let us first look at the features of immersive reading and understand how this partnership helps to increase the accessibility of content while also improving reading and writing skills for all learners. It also includes text decoding solutions for students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia facilitating accessibility features.

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Free STEM Curriculum Distance Learning Resources

Teacher Reboot Camp

Learn how to use the amazing Immersive Reader that makes learning accessible to all. Aperture also has a parent portal with additional resources families can access during this transition period. Featured activities with templates that are easy to copy and distribute to students, such as the Hugs for Heroes digital greetings.

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