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Google, Expanding on HBCU Pilot, Launches ‘Tech Exchange’ to Boost Diversity in Industry

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-based HBCU, in Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters to learn first-hand the skills and concepts they’d been studying in class. Even in their early conversations about Howard West, officials at Google planned to expand the program to other institutions. Participating students received course credit and a living stipend.

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What Skills Do Google, Pinterest, and Twitter Employees Think Kids Need To Succeed?

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Here's the start to an interesting story: a Google program manager, a Twitter engineer, and a Pinterest employee walk into a bar. In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. What are they there to discuss? But in reality, it’s not a bar.

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5 steps for implementing a 1:1 program

Neo LMS

Definitely not. Going Google… or Microsoft… or Apple. Google, Microsoft and Apple are really just the big players of the industry, but you’ll find many more options if you look beyond them. This means that both the security of the hardware and that of the software must be ensured. It will be worth your while.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data.

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This Father Built an App to Level the Playing Field for Struggling Readers

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Venkat Ratnam So Ratnam left his 23-year career as a professional services leader for software companies to create a solution that would help his children and others. A dictionary might help, as would firing up Google to search for definitions, images or videos. asks Ratnam. I thought, ‘What happens when I’m not there with him?’”

Android 167
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How This Everyman Bootcamp Tackles the Impacts of Automation

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Also, these programs don’t build the soft skills industry increasingly demands. Kenzie Academy is a unique bootcamp, where students with little to no coding experience learn highly sought after UX Engineering or Software engineering skills in just one year. We're definitely expecting higher enrollment over the next few quarters.

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AVer Information Announces the Release of the M5 Distance Learning Document Camera

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The Ultra High Definition (UHD) 8MP camera produces high quality video that can show a clear view of documents, objects, teachers and student presenters, while reaching up to 60FPS for smooth, real-time video. The included free AVerTouch software provides additional tools and interactivity to keep students engaged with the curriculum.