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Podcast pedagogy: Leveraging audio programs for learning

Neo LMS

Perhaps even more importantly, many educators did not see a way to integrate them into their lessons. With a seemingly endless number to choose from and numerous user-friendly tools to create them, more and more educators recognize the value of podcasts as an educational tool. Nowadays, of course, podcasts are ubiquitous.

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A ‘Safe’ Smart Speaker for Kids? Startup Chatterbox Promises to Put Privacy First

Edsurge

In education, such privacy concerns are secondary to another glaring issue: that company officials have said their products are intended for consumer use, not as classroom tools. But Chatterbox is not a learn-to-code company. A new Amazon Echo Dot, in comparison, costs $29.99. It’s still early days for Chatterbox.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind.

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AI Is Everywhere. Now It Wants to Teach You Chinese.

Edsurge

Ponddy Education , for example, is a San Jose, Calif.-based A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

But thanks to a data collection effort by an expert in adult education at a nonprofit research organization in New York, Center for an Urban Future, we now have evidence of a sharp decline in new high school equivalency degrees in almost every state between 2012 and 2016. .”

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

Tune in to discover why esports might just be the missing piece in your educational toolkit and how you can start a program at your school. Danielle has 15 years of experience in Texas public education in both middle and high school, but will always identify as a middle school World Cultures teacher. That's the closest comparison.

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“I want to be a teacher, but I can’t afford it.”

The Cornerstone for Teachers

These days, we are just starting to realize that keeping salary a secret is a ploy for companies, not some privacy protection for employees. By comparison, teachers in New York can expect to make around $85K per year. Unfortunately, many new teachers won’t make anywhere near this amount until five or more years in education.

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