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As Facebook Changes Name to Meta, Company Wants to Pull Education Into Its 'Metaverse'

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Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta yesterday, as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sweeping vision of creating a next-generation “embodied” internet inspired by science fiction, where users, as he described it , will be “in the experience, not just looking at it.” In 2014 the company bought VR company Oculus for $2 billion.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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The tech giant Meta, widely known under its previous name Facebook, seems to be eyeing a way to allow users to offer video classes. Since at least last year, Meta has experimented with Facebook Classes, a program designed to make online instruction through its platform smoother. For now, Meta isn’t taking a cut of live events.

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What Students Want Teachers—and Facebook—to Know About Digital Citizenship

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It was on Facebook where she found an account dedicated to guessing why Jivani—whose hair had fallen out by age 12 due to an autoimmune disease—wore a wig to school. But it was also on Facebook where in 2011 Jivani, then in ninth grade, posted a video of her removing the wig.

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

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Meanwhile, the social media companies named in the lawsuit emphasized their own commitments to teen and child safety. Meanwhile, the social media companies named in the lawsuit emphasized their own commitments to teen and child safety. “We This is about specific affirmative actions that Google, YouTube, Facebook and others are taking.”

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SEL Spotlight: Dr. Marc Brackett – How Kids Learn Right Now

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Dr. Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and lead developer of RULER , a systemic, evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning reflects on where students are now and how to reach them. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

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But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018.

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‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief

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On Thursday, hoping to send a stronger message, they took it all the way to the top, with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This program grew out of Summit Public Schools, a network of 11 charter schools based in California and Washington, and soon caught the eye of Facebook, which lent engineers to help build the software.

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