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Company Offers Free Facial Recognition Software to Boost School Security

EdTech Magazine

Company Offers Free Facial Recognition Software to Boost School Security. Last month, RealNetworks , the streaming media company that garnered attention in the ‘90s and early 2000s for developing the first audio streaming solution , announced it would offer its facial recognition software, SAFR , for free to over 100,000 school districts.

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4 Essential Factors for Student Engagement Based on Current Research

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: GoGuardian The State of Engagement Report 2020 has valuable classroom research and information on distance learning best practices. This must-read report is funded by GoGuardian and includes a meta-analysis of best practices in engaging distance learning. Thank you GoGuardian for sponsoring this podcast and the report.

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How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: GoGuardian The State of Engagement Report 2020 has valuable classroom research and information on distance learning best practices. This must-read report is funded by GoGuardian and includes a meta-analysis of best practices in engaging distance learning. Thank you GoGuardian for sponsoring this podcast and the report.

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How Ed-Tech Companies Use Research to Make Better Products

Digital Promise

While there is widespread support for ed-tech companies to use research when designing their products, there is still little information available about how companies actually do (or should do) this work. As a result, pioneering companies have had to adapt these methods as they strive to make products that are truly “research-based.”.

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New Research on Student Engagement Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

We can dig in and find that in some excellent research from the 2020 State of Engagement report. In this blog post, I’ll share my observations and give you links to the report so you can read it for yourself. To help you get closer to these answers, I recommend that all of you read GoGuardian ’s 2020 State of Engagement Report.

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Can a Hollywood-Backed VR Company Make Science Labs More Effective?

Edsurge

The university is building the course material as part of a partnership with a VR entertainment company called Dreamscape Immersive, which is led by Walter Parkes, who produced Hollywood blockbusters including “Men in Black,” “Minority Report” and “Gladiator.” You have to work in teams, and you have to communicate.”

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Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters

The CoolCatTeacher

The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. How does TARA help Special Education Teachers Streamline?

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