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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Buying an Office Projector: 5 Things to Consider 

ViewSonic Education

If your company aims to minimize its environmental impact, perhaps as part of an ESG policy (Environment, Social, and Governance), LED and laser business projectors are an excellent choice. Lamp-free projectors are also more environmentally friendly, as they don’t rely on mercury lightbulbs for illumination.

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The Great Student AI Writing Experiment with Steve Dembo

The CoolCatTeacher

Then ultimately, we wind up wrapping this unit up by having a, you know, an almost week-long discussion where the students, each class, crafted their own ethical use policy. And my hunch is if you do the same exercise in 50 different schools, we're going to get very different results. You know, what is ethical? What is unethical.

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Holding Class on Zoom? Beware of These Hacks, Hijinks and Hazards

Edsurge

On Tuesday, Kristina Ishmael was watching a webinar about how coronavirus will impact K-12 education policy, when the screen was suddenly flooded by pictures of pornographic images and racial slurs. The company says more than 2,000 school districts that use its provisioning services have also done this.)

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Buying an Office Projector: 5 Things to Consider 

ViewSonic Education

If your company aims to minimize its environmental impact, perhaps as part of an ESG policy (Environment, Social, and Governance), LED and laser business projectors are an excellent choice. Lamp-free projectors are also more environmentally friendly, as they don’t rely on mercury lightbulbs for illumination.

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

Edsurge

It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. COVID-19 shed light on the huge gap in policy relating to tech and infrastructure provisioning—what many are now referring to as a civil rights issue.

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