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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. 08 ethereum (or about $300), that would give EdSurge the right to include it in this article, and even to include it in the NFT of this article we’re selling. That fun factor has been embraced by other education groups as well.

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

Edsurge

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S. The recruiter who hired me told me flatly that the company was not a good one.)

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Web Conferencing

ViewSonic Education

Gaining an understanding of the various web conferencing advantages and disadvantages can be critical for business success because it allows companies to fully realize the potential on offer, while also maintaining an awareness of the challenges and what can be done to overcome them. This then has a number of significant knock-on effects.

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Four Secret Ingredients for Building a Community of Leaders in the Face of Uncertainty

Digital Promise

It’s challenging to cultivate a group dynamic conducive to leading through uncertainty. But it is possible, and such a group can be professionally energizing and yield incredible results. Beyond simply accomplishing our objective, however, we were surprised to discover how therapeutic this group became for those of us involved.

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4 Long-Term Benefits of Bilingual Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is such a great article on the benefits of bi-lingual education. In 2011, a team of scholars tested two groups of students who were taking English as a foreign language in school. One group was fluent in both Russian and Hebrew while the other group was composed of native Hebrew speakers.

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Troubleshooting the Flipped Classroom: Dealing with Unprepared Students

Catlin Tucker

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., It’s akin to a parent asking their child to clean their room before company comes over, but when the child doesn’t do it, the parent cleans the room for them.

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How to Create Differentiated NGSS Science Lessons using Propello

The CoolCatTeacher

Imagine a world where science concepts could be customized for a class, a group of students, or an individual student. Note: One amazing thing about this is that I can create a learning path for a district, a class, a group of students, or even an individual student. Propello makes it possible. Propello sponsored this post.

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