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Ed Tech Company SuperDville Awards Over $25,000 In Microgrants!

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SuperDville is a mission driven woman and minority owned and operated company which produces a video based social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed to empower 7-13-year-olds with learning differences. Themes include SEL skills like self-advocacy, confidence, and resilience while promoting a peer-to-peer model.

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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

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Dr. Kristy Custer is one of the pioneers of the video gaming movement in schools. Over the past 20 years, she has helped lead the CHSM team to state and national honors including a Crystal Star Award for Dropout Prevention Schools, Civic Advocacy Award, Promising Practice Award, and being named a National School of Character.

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Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look

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Like tens of thousands of other schools, Berkeley Unified School District in Northern California picked Zoom as its video-conferencing tool to support its remote instruction plan. The district has been quite open about how challenging this migration to video distance learning has been for their teachers,” says Boyd.

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New, Free Digital Experience Offers All Students Invaluable Career Readiness Opportunities

eSchool News

This is done through interactive online videos, quizzes, games, and mini-lessons or quests that help them develop life skills while enabling them to explore careers, build their networks, and actually experiment with jobs.

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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Sarraf hopes the robot and her company of the same name can reach homes and families, just as they have reached the wallets of two angel investors who have injected $4.2 The company did not disclose their names. The robot is not yet available; when it is, the company says it will retail for $299. Courtesy of Roybi the company.

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What Students Want Teachers—and Facebook—to Know About Digital Citizenship

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But it was also on Facebook where in 2011 Jivani, then in ninth grade, posted a video of her removing the wig. In the video, she said that she sees beauty in everyone, while acknowledging that others’ words about her appearance had hurt her. Jivani had jump started a career in self-care advocacy.

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Google Gets $170M Fine and Pledges to Protect Children on YouTube. Will It Matter?

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In April 2018, privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint stating that YouTube had been illegally collecting personal data about minors who use its service without their parents’ consent, and used that information for advertising purposes. million fine levied against TikTok, a social video app, in February 2019. That was a $5.7

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