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Sinclair launches free cybersecurity training for K-12 administrators

Ask a Tech Teacher

Developed in response to a White House Cybersecurity Summit for K-12 schools, the short course focuses on identifying and addressing cybersecurity threats specific to schools. Full Story: Dayton Daily News (Ohio) (tiered subscription model) (3/25) Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! Recently, I took a course from Advancement Courses called Teaching Computer Science in 6-12. Look at Courses.

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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

Edsurge

When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. He says, yeah, no, of course nobody reads the journals, but they're still there. That's fine.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

While looking for the answer, we’ve shared our findings in this series of articles. Earlier we talked to educators who feel disillusioned by edtech companies’ seemingly disingenuous engagement tactics or feel invisible in the edtech choices made at their schools. On the whole, they were in the field for anywhere between 3 and 27 years.

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How to create beautiful online courses: colors

Neo LMS

The company allegedly melted other commercial chocolate, while claiming they were making bean-to-bar chocolate. I invite you to read this Quartz article and be amazed by the power of visuals in a business and marketing strategy. Your business as a teacher is to create the best possible courses for your students. You deserve it.

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We Wondered If NFTs Could Change Education, So We Decided to Sell This Article on the Blockchain

Edsurge

Specifically, we are going to auction off an image of this article—the first NFT ever sold by EdSurge. She’s a data scientist by training, and It turns out she has taught a few courses about blockchain, which is the technical framework that makes NFTs possible. So here’s our experiment: We’re selling an image of this article as an NFT.

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I Worked for ESL Companies with Lousy Curriculums. Here’s What I Learned — And What You Should Look For.

Edsurge

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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