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The Education of an Android Teacher

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When you meet an android, it’s important to follow etiquette. I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. This makes it difficult to discern whether the android is a sci-fi character come to life or mere parlor trick. Educating an android happens one conversation at a time. Are you having a good day?”

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New Sora Showcase Turns Any Touchscreen Display into Kiosk for Student Discovery of Digital Books

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CLEVELAND – October 29, 2021 – As schools embrace the digital shift and rely more on digital books to support learning outcomes, educators are searching for creative ways to drive awareness and usage. Compatible hardware includes any touchscreen device or monitor (iPad mini-sized tablet or larger) running Windows 10, Android or iOS.

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An ‘Epic’ Fundraise: Children’s Digital Book Subscription Startup Nabs $8 Million

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Building a “Netflix for books” service has proven notoriously difficult. Epic , which offers a digital subscription service for children’s books, has just raised $8 million in a Series C round led by Reach Capital. based company has now raised a total of $21.4 The company pays a licensing fee for these rights.)

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Distance Learning Short List: Best Free Resources by Grade and Subject

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We’ve heard from educators how overwhelming it can be to wade through the dozens of emails and articles with hundreds of “great apps for distance learning” from people and companies that possibly have their interests -- and not yours -- in mind. Platforms: iOS, Android, Chrome. Tami's Tower. Picture Dots.

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One Animation’s Oddbods Partners With Splashlearn’s Digital Learning Program – Reaching Over 40m Kids In The USA

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SpashLearn’s reading program, which will feature the Oddbods books, has been designed to develop core reading skills through a sequential learning path that takes into consideration factors such as sentence predictability, word features, story structure, among several others. After all, there’s a little odd in everyone! ABOUT ONE ANIMATION.

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After Layoffs and Acquisition, LightSail Education Charts a New, Uncertain Course

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Last September, the company tapped Good Harbor Partners, a Boston firm that advises on business transactions in the education technology industry, to explore strategic and financial opportunities for the company. He and Ryan Alexander, the company’s president, are no longer involved in running the company.

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Hour of Code: How Students Can Build Their Own Apps

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App developers can work for software companies, retailers, in healthcare, in the travel industry, for the entertainment industry, or in financial services. The resulting app works on Android and iOS and can be uploaded to Google Play or the App Store. An app developer used all of these before they ever went on sale.