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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. In recent years, we’ve used podcasts and short videos, adding vibrancy to our messaging with examples from the classroom.

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Education Looks Eastward: Snapshots from Beijing's Global Education Technology Summit

Edsurge

China had a reputation for copying technology from Silicon Valley, but these days the country has developed its own unique technology environment—what a new book by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, calls an “alternate internet universe.” An estimated 34 percent of all mobile internet traffic in China flows through WeChat.

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

EdTechnocation.com

An all-access pass includes an RSVP to attend the live event, lifetime access to video recordings of all of the presentations, any materials or handouts from the presenters for download, plus other goodies as announced! REGISTER HERE Includes everything PLUS lifetime access to video recordings of AR/VR in K-12 Education Summit 2019.

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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). An early adopter of iPads Jennifer remains dedicated to using technology in schools for a social purpose. Check out Jen’s website [link] for more ideas, resources and inspiration.

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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. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

They support single sign-on with Google and Clever. Joe: Well, I’m excited, because I look out at the world, and we have – UNESCO says, by 2030, we have a teacher shortage of 25.8 His primary responsibilities include the coordination of state chapters, STEM, virtual circles and NNSTOY Fellows, video production and technology support.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. I can’t find its origin – but it must be true: a futurist said it in a keynote, and the video was posted to the Internet. It is not.

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