Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. There is also a trio of Facebook tools: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Messenger Kids.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 10, 2018

I’ll admit, I started my own tinyletter in part because I wanted to find an audience again that was a little more personal that what gets lost in the algorithmic facebook feed and the firehose that is Twitter. Mark Sample, on how Facebook Killed the Feed : “Facebook killed the feed. The feed was a metaphorical thing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Congressionally chartered in 1990 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to complement the work of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NEEF is a non-partisan, non-advocacy organization working to make the environment more accessible, relatable, relevant, and connected to people’s daily lives. For additional information visit media.subaru.com.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A. Most recently, Harvard University rescinded acceptance offers to 10 students in response to “obscene memes” shared in a private Facebook group. But as someone who communicates with her peers via Facebook, the story reminds her that there is “no privacy online.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

While access to other technology is limited in the camp, Grosso said many refugee families have access to a cell phone but primarily use only four to five apps, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or YouTube. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 3, 2020

Contrary to my own public activism and advocacy, I propose that we move the nation’s largest public school system into a completely online endeavor forever and a day. I know this may come as a shock to everyone who’s been following me for years, but I might have developed outright envy for some of my most fervent detractors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. A Science of Math Facebook group, which they started in December 2020, now has more than 21,000 members. The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 12, 2022

I say this all the time, “You must both fear and respect Google (and Facebook, etc.) Will your child appreciate your advocacy when they are overcoming handicaps, obstacles, or just throwing a fit and you hit their face with a slice of cheese? #2 Data Mining and Tracking. because they know a lot about you.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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. But is it really all that much? The agency is hosting a public workshop in about a month, on Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. More than a thousand parents have joined a Facebook group called Mainers Concerned About Proficiency Based Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America’s broadcasters. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Work on the platform began within the charter network Summit Public Schools and was transformed when Facebook began to lend engineering support in 2015. CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Effective Advocacy. releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook. Over one third (34.5%) of all the contributions to the 4.8 – 4.13

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? District Profiles. Lance, Keith Curry and Debra E.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

To learn more, visit waltonfamilyfoundation.org and follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram. They drive public conversation, craft policy, and inspire action through education and advocacy. About American Student Assistance ® (ASA).

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

In March, the former secretary announced he was joining the Emerson Collective , a philanthropic and advocacy organization, as a managing partner, and would work in Chicago to help dropouts and young people with criminal records. Last month, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Pluralsight in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Stories pointing to secretive consumer tracking policies and privacy violations from companies like Facebook and Google have stirred further outcries, and education companies are not immune to criticisms either. These achievements explain why academic researchers are distinguishing their work from those done for commercial reasons.

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techlearning

AUGUST 22, 2018

Speak Truth to Power as a will also help to expand the circle of human rights defenders through awareness, discourse and advocacy. Stay connected with Discovery Education on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @DiscoveryEd. ### About Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights: Led by human rights activist and lawyer Kerry Kennedy, Robert F.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 2, 2015

It was also shared with our regular library volunteers and on our library and PTA Facebook pages. Advocacy Art Events Reading Promotion community Dr. Seuss favorite books guest readers read aloud reading volunteers' She created a Signup Genius and parent leaders in each grade level began sharing the signup.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

A number of top executives, a bipartisan assortment of governors, and multiple advocacy groups have issued an open letter to Congress calling on the government to devote $250 million to computer coding education for students, along with professional development in that subject for teachers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. “Our sense from our members is that this has exacerbated the trend we had already been seeing of declining student interest in going into teaching,” says Jacqueline E.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Tweets and pins and blog posts and Facebook ‘likes’ are fairly easy to ignore, particularly by policymakers whom are less technology-knowledgeable. Roark is correct about our tone but I will also note that educators’ current policy advocacy is not working. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Pilot program lets schools tap into a helpline with close ties to Twitter and Facebook. Available via email or a toll-free phone number, the helpline has gained in-kind and financial support from Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Ask.fm.

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SpeechTechie

JULY 8, 2013

Strategies for building the foundations of self advocacy in students, i.e. knowing about their own IEP. Collect" your Photos You may have a built-in collection of usable photos for this task on Facebook. Navigate to a usable picture in the Facebook app on iPad, and you can tap on the 3 Dots to save the picture to the Photos app.

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iPad Assessment Strategy Facebook 80

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

For this week’s challenge, I interviewed my Facebook friends to see what they would say about these stems. Facebook: El Deafo by CeCe Bell (Matthew Winner). Facebook: Alec Baldwin (Lizzie Faville Payne). Facebook: Skippyjon Jones and Pigeon (Frannie McClester). Facebook: Stephen King (Lizzie Faville Payne).

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Facebook Advocacy STEM Google 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our professional guests: Lian Chikako Chang, a "data storyteller," started the Pandemic Pods group on Facebook in July; just weeks later, the group includes more than 35,000 members. She received an early childhood credential from the American Montessori Society, one of the premier Montessori advocacy organizations.

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Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

Reading By Example

APRIL 27, 2020

My wife posted the picture below on her Facebook account. I was able to weed out a dozen or so books from my home library. Most were read, a few had been sitting idle for years, all worthy of new readers. “Books for the taking”, along with our address.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

The foundation supports the DEA through advocacy, outreach, and educational programs. For more information about Discovery Education’s Streaming Plus services, digital content and professional development services, visit discoveryeducation.com.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber. With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Operation Prevention efforts have expanded through the Operation Prevention Pledge – which brings together educators, advocacy organizations, businesses, think-tanks, and social impact groups – to encourage millions more young people to learn about the science behind addiction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there were blogs, wikis, Twitter or Facebook. She has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy, technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others. Barbara is what you call a “Digital Pioneer.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In most cases, schools are turning to third parties for help building out their core and non-core content right now, said Allison Powell, VP for new learning models at iNACOL , the nonprofit blended learning advocacy group.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Much like the Internets in general, (or the Googles, or the Facebooks, or the Twitters, or the YouTubes) many educators look upon Wikipedia with suspicion, sometimes derision, and occasionally with fear. Another step forward in Web Presence and Advocacy - & yes, Socialnomics: be where your customers are. But who are we kidding?

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Let’s Chat.Bots in Higher Education : What if all of your college questions could be answered by sending a text or Facebook message? Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? 2:00 p.m.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

I do worry sometimes that going on Twitter is just preaching to the choir… or that Facebook and Twitter are not necessarily effective mediums for changing people's minds and their inherent beliefs. That's something that that I think every social platform is attempting to navigate right now. What do you think about that?

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