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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

But what I haven’t seen is kids Googling anything to help them with this project. Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.) There’s a reason why this Invention project is a Google-free zone. I’ve even seen contact lenses that take photographs.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard. Then of course, the curriculum is gamified, so they have different levels of challenges that they have to engage in — which are knowledge based — in order to learn the curriculum, but also succeed in the virtual world.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

Edsurge

For this week’s podcast, EdSurge connected with Couch to talk about some of those frustrations, his time at Apple, and where he sees the company going next in education. These days we’re seeing a big push by Microsoft and Google in education, but I don't hear as much from Apple as we once did. They had no idea what to do with them.

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How to pass the WSET Diploma D2 exam on the Business of Wine

Brainscape

The take-home message here is to make sure you understand exactly what the examiners are asking you to do by explicitly identifying the command words , and then delivering on that using your extensive knowledge base. (As Google is your friend. In English: how a company can evaluate internal and external threats to their goals.

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This Company is Using AI to Change the World

EdNews Daily

Ray Kurzweil is a bestselling author, futurist and Director of Engineering for Google. Apple’s SIRI, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortona and Google’s Hey Google are all thought to be AI. Each company has incredible resources, and each is synonymous with technological innovation. THIS IS THE COMPANY.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

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“But,” he continued, “if you ask students to justify student why hydrogen is placed in its position on the periodic table (in the first row in the first column), they’re using their science knowledge.”. New Meridian is a nonprofit assessment company on a mission to support quality education for all students by fostering deeper learning.

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What Should First Year Teachers Know About Tech Integration?

Tech Helpful

Apps and websites like Kahoot, Socrative, Go Formative, or using school-based LMS quiz solutions allows for more knowledge based on individualized students. The collaborative value that Twitter, Google plus, CoffeeEDUs and various other educational online communities bring is invaluable.