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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? Like many fellow founders in this space, I left the classroom to create solutions to the challenges that I faced as a teacher and tech director. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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My School Learned The Hard Way That Edtech Saves Time, But It Can't Solve Human Problems

Edsurge

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

This was a classroom full of climate refugees, and many of them said, ‘Oh, it hasn’t affected my life yet. What I found was that there’s a lot of kids who are learning climate denial in the classroom. And it’s pretty common that kids either get miseducated or they just learn nothing at all about the phenomenon in classrooms.

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Germany, known for sorting kids into college and vocational tracks, takes a more flexible approach

The Hechinger Report

Students in Germany can embark on apprenticeships directly after finishing general education at age 16 in grade 10, attending vocational schools that offer theoretical study, alongside practical training at a company. Chambers of commerce and industry support company-school partnerships and help smaller businesses train their interns.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Drop by our Booth F302 in the expo hall at any time during the event, where we will provide insights on how to effectively manage online classroom activities, answer all your questions and showcase NEO’s newest features. It is time to blend your classroom? How will this work for my classroom? To offer more personalized learning?

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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

Edsurge

Digital instruction is commonly divided into “asynchronous” and “synchronous” modes, with “synchronous” referring to real time teaching in a classroom or virtually over Zoom or other video conference tools. Afterward, we spend the next virtual classroom hour in conversation exploring what they discovered offline.

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Amazon Taps Stanford Professor, Candace Thille to Lead Internal Professional Learning

Edsurge

One of the most prominent researchers and critics of how learning technologies are built and used in higher education is joining, temporarily, one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Thille’s new position is an internal-facing role that focuses on supporting the company’s workers across the world.