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Effective Instruction and Support For Emergent Bilingual Students

edWeb.net

First, they needed to access and use remote learning technologies, and then they needed to continue developing their language and literacy skills despite the pandemic-related disruptions and other difficulties they and their families faced. Watch the Recording. Integrating Technology.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

Next week, my tenth graders will have to invent a new way to access the Internet. Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.) In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. We’ve been doing this project eight years now.

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A state embraces the idea that not everyone needs to go to college

The Hechinger Report

The only way we are going to compete with companies in places like India, China and Mexico, with much lower labor costs, is through knowledge.”. Whitworth says his firm is able to beat those companies by providing consistently high quality products to clients with niche needs. Anyone can get machine tools,” Whitworth says.

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Meet The Gates Foundation’s New Deputy Director in Higher Education

Edsurge

She began a long career in education, which included cofounding two social enterprise organizations (one of which helped get 4,000 women off welfare), serving as a Commissioner of San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education and starting two edtech companies. That’s a huge, big goal.

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An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry

Edsurge

I mean, I was so peeved at the publishers who come out there and talk about being education companies, but shareholder value trumps all. So after college, you worked at a computer company then you moved to Texas Instruments. I was with one of the very first software companies, the very first one that wasn't a computer company.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meet The New California Counterculture: College Republicans ” by the incredible Scaachi Koul. Via Chalkbeat : “Meet the NYC principal in the spotlight for defending desegregation against angry parents.” “ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy? ” asks Inside Higher Ed.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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