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Discovery Education and Leading Corporate and Nonprofit Partners Launch First-of-Its-Kind Initiative Supporting Sustainability

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Each partner provides expertise, insight, and access to enable the creation of high-quality and standards-aligned dynamic digital resources and will help provide under-resourced schools across the United States no-cost access to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience learning platform. Subaru of America, Inc.,

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Verizon launches free trainings and tools to help educators navigate digital instruction

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Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. Applications are now being accepted by Digital Promise from districts with Title I schools across the nation.

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TRANSFR Raises $12M to Deliver Hands-on Workforce Training Through VR

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The content is delivered via the Quest 2, a $299 VR headset from the Facebook subsidiary, Oculus. Alabama faces a potential shortfall of 199,000 skilled workers by 2026 that, if unaddressed, could reach 243,000 by 2030 according to state data.

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

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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. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Global Leadership Week - Information and Schedule

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Our current plan is to stream this event live from our Facebook page: [link]. Students and alumni of the Access English microscholarship program will share their leadership success stories as posted on this group. See their photos and bios HERE as well as the recording of last year's panels. Now, for the rest of the week's events!

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

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Adults tend to underestimate the younger generation, thinking that we don’t know what we’re doing, but I for one have used Facebook ads and Google AdWords to promote SSU. It’s important that everyone who has access to data is trained properly to use and protect it,” Vance says.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.