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Filtering Current Events to Promote Safe Digital Learning

Lightspeed Systems

That’s why Lightspeed Filter provides school districts with the essential tools to promptly restrict access to sensitive content, effectively filtering current events. Summary News and current events can be distracting to students and, in some cases, disturbing and harmful. Where and when appropriate, block searches on specific terms.

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Online YC Demo Day Includes A Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App, Parenting Advice Platform

Edsurge

COVID-19 led to a more demure, online-only version of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s demo day event this week for its winter cohort. This isn’t CEO Erika Hairston’s first foray into edtech. She previously led LinkedIn Learning’s social learning team as a product manager. The website will be available until April 15.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

Lectures are now scheduled events or meet-ups. Cauthen’s team is currently figuring out the logistics of shipping the giant game board to every city for the Learning Counsel regional events in 2020. They can lay their existing lesson plans end-to-end like bricks and already have the basics of personalized workflow learning.

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How an Ed-Tech Startup Can Rise Above the Noise at ISTE

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Now that I’ve made the transition to startup CEO, some conferences are must-attend events. This year we didn’t exhibit at ISTE, but I attended the event to hold meetings and scope out the landscape. They are offering hands-on learning, demos and pens, bags, candy, prizes. It’s not where you found the news. One of them is ISTE.

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Your 2017 ISTE Cheatsheet Is Here—and Jam-Packed

Edsurge

Starting June 24th, thousands of educators, entrepreneurs and edtech enthusiasts will flock to Alamo City for the annual International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This year will feature over 1,000 “personalized” sessions ranging from keynotes to campfires to interactive product demos. Not sure where to start?

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

The textbook starts with the digital world and asks learners to analyze social media and rhetoric. . History” This introduction to United States history covers people, politics, events, ideas, economics, diplomacy, race, class and gender. Request a demo today to learn more! High school – “U.S.

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4 Augmented and Virtual Reality Projects That Point to the Future of Education

Edsurge

NYC Media Lab merges engineering and design research happening at the city’s universities with resources and opportunities from the media and technology industry—to produce new prototypes, launch new companies and advocate for the latest thinking. Street Smarts VR demos are all under 10-minutes long.

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