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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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From those, event organizers and the public decided on the roughly 400 sessions that made the agenda. From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. states and Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 5, 11 a.m. Why Not Both?

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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests

The Hechinger Report

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. “With employers fielding a lot more applicants, how do we help create equitable processes for people at the top of the funnel?”

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

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The New Design for School Networks

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Software and services hosted in the cloud: First and foremost, by using cloud-based programs, schools don’t need to worry about having the staff and skills to maintain the programs. She started her career as a software engineer at NASA supporting Space Shuttle and Station Operations. About the Presenters.

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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This free event is for everyone interested in helping students to learn, because we're having what may be one of the most important conversations about learning in the history of the world. and MAIT : Beyond the Buzzwords: How to infuse SEL, flipped learning, & more into everyday activities Kate Baker, M.Ed

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

Students have been blocked from going to websites that web-filtering software categorizes as “education,” “news,” or “informational.” Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.”