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A Viral Video Showed a School Officer Body-Slamming a Student. Years Later, Signs of Change.

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A lawsuit that has been playing out in South Carolina offers a powerful example of the systemic issues involved. The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her.

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The Impact of Creativity on College and Career Readiness

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Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? For example, students can create a portfolio of their work and emphasize what they have learned through collaboration and creativity.

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OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

Iterating Toward Openness

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. This is why I refer to this line of advocacy as “free no matter the cost.” There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened.

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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Clad in a beanie, university sweatshirt and gold-rimmed glasses, a TikToker who goes by Mimi looks directly into the camera and speaks in a gentle tone as she addresses her viewers on the topics that flash in red-highlighted letters at the top of the video: “TW: Climate Anxiety & Doomism.”

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Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Census Could Impact Adult Education

Digital Promise

You can share this video and provide information about participation in the 2020 Census by hosting events or workshops, reminding communities to avoid fraudulent or scam forms and sharing that the information provided to the Census Bureau is confidential. What can organizations do to make sure everyone is counted? Census Bureau (PRB).

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Activating the Community to Support Education Innovation

Digital Promise

Student advocacy reinforced Kettle Moraine’s implementation of CBE and expanded opportunities around personalized learning. For example, students lobbied for things like more internet access by using social media to post personalized learning videos on YouTube. She further mentioned that “people love to be celebrated.”

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If we don’t engage online, we cede mindshare to others who will

Dangerously Irrelevant

As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence ( 53,000+ Twitter followers ; video series with 100+ million views ; one of the top education blogs in the world , etc.), Tales of “Bad Twitter” are legion, for example. I can attest that there is great power in being engaged in relevant online communities.