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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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Educators around the world are shifting into learning and organizing mode in response to the release of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots that have brought a mix of excitement and panic to education. education ministries including those in Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Malaysia, South Korea and the U.K.;

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As Seattle schools sue social media companies, what’s the legal impact?

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Black, an education law professor at the University of South Carolina. It is not a winning lawsuit, and it shouldn’t be,” said Aaron Saiger, an education law professor at Fordham University. Meanwhile, the social media companies named in the lawsuit emphasized their own commitments to teen and child safety. “We

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Student and Teacher Motivational Needs in the School Setting

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Looking at theories of motivation can create a broader perspective as well as give educators additional ideas for meeting their own and their students’ needs. Resources: Addressing Our Needs: Maslow Comes to Life for Educators and Students [link]. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Education – [link]. Source: [link] ).

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How This Company Gives Voice — and Value — to Virtual Collaboration

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Their prototype, a product aimed at helping families stay connected, caught the eye of educators who immediately saw a greater potential. VoiceThread Panel: The Future of Education in a Post-COVID World In a recent conversation, Steve Muth, Co-Founder and President of VoiceThread, explained more about his vision.

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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

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At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. She says she joined the faculty because she was intrigued by the opportunity to be part of an education institution “that is actively working to put back those things that were taken from our people for so many decades.”

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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In almost any school in the country today, you can find an app or program that claims to change education as we know it. As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system.

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Platzi Raises $6 Million to Bring More Online Education to Latin America

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Before they founded a company together, Freddy Vega and Christian Van Der Henst were rivals. They had two different companies that provided services to Flash programmers until a combination of the programming language’s decline in popularity with the global recession killed business in the early 2010s. For the U.S.

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