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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. iMac lab with Adobe Creative Suite ? TOOLS THEY USE HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY, PITTSBURGH ? Canvas LMS ?

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

The Hechinger Report

Raritan also outfitted a dozen smart classrooms — set up with multiple screens, ceiling microphones and robotic cameras — that faculty members use to record lectures for students who can’t get to class, or to hold hybrid classes in which some students are on-site and others remote. So the school used $1.6

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Adobe plans to axe Flash. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. From the Raspberry Pi blog : “IoT Sleepbuddy, the robotic babysitter.” . “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ” asks the Pioneer Press. ”). .”