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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community. She has held several leadership positions with education companies, most recently Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Achieve 3000, Kaplan K12, and Renaissance Learning.

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Udemy’s Upskilling and Educational Content is Now Available on LenovoEDU Community

eSchool News

Udemy, the world’s largest destination for learning and teaching online, today announced that the recently launched LenovoEDU community by Lenovo will offer Udemy content and pathways to course recommendations for specific careers. Eighty percent of Fortune 100 companies trust Udemy for employee upskilling.

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Labster Raises $21 Million to Bring More Digital Lab Simulations to Classrooms

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She contacted that company, Labster , and was assured she could have a digital lab up in time for the first day of class. And she isn’t the only one sold on the company. The company now has about 65 full-time employees and 40 contractors. In 2017, the company raised $10 million in a Series A led by Balderton.

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School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation

EdTech Magazine

If that works at companies like Google and Apple, the same mindset should be in schools.”. That commitment includes building state-of-the-art labs at its middle and high schools, where students can work on projects as part of their engineering courses or after-school clubs. Critical Thinking Spaces Spark Opportunities for All.

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LAUSD to get $6.4M in software settlement from Pearson

eSchool News

Another computer company, Lenovo, also had charged the district for Pearson curriculum. The deal with Apple, reached in June 2013, was part of a bold initiative — and an exclusive deal with the company — to use school bonds to pay for industry-leading tablets. Under the agreement, Apple will pay the district $4.2

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere.

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K–12 Teachers Use Augmented and Virtual Reality Platforms to Teach Biology

EdTech Magazine

Educational technology companies recognize the benefit of mixed reality software in biology and health courses and have already begun to invest in courseware. In May 2018, Google announced a partnership with Labster , a virtual lab simulator, to develop immersive high school and college biology and anatomy courses. .

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