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The Wild and Amazing World of Augmented Reality

Ask a Tech Teacher

What makes AR different from QR codes or other embedded link technologies is that the AR content is superimposed onto existing materials in their own real-time environment. How’s it different from Virtual Reality. How to use it. Afterward, anyone can scan the cover of the book and instantly access the review.

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KidZania: Hands-On Kid Sized Cities Coming To America

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Research has shown that by providing children with access to real-life activities that both entertain and inform, they will be better prepared to build life skills and stay focused in the classroom. . Role-play is a critical part of early childhood development, teaching children how to communicate, explore and collaborate with others.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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But the underlying blockchain technology is complex, and attracting droves of interest from the likes of IBM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Investors might be less interested in buying and trading tokens for a streaming service that they can access for regular cash. Everything else is like trading penny stocks.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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When we rolled out our classroom tech demos, parents were pulling me aside, saying how much these programs (Read180, System 44, iRead, Math180) would have helped, how they wished they had this tech as kids. We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. Now they do.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

So when the alumnus, who worked for Microsoft, told him that the Redmond, Washington-based technology behemoth would be hiring huge numbers of people to specialize in data analytics, he went back to the campus to fast-track a new degree program in that subject. Related: How to save the humanities?

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training. Samaniego created the website Blue Agua as a class project to raise money for access to water for people who don’t have it.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

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In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. May 2015 I read Mark Cuban’s “ How to Win at the Sport of Business.”

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