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

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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. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions. The website will be available until April 15.

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Unlock the Secrets: Expert Homework Hacks for Busy Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me. He served on the Working Group for President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. 00:08:31:23 – 00:08:40:17 Brian You know, how to work with groups.

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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

With Workspace, you can quickly create student groups and differentiate instruction or share personalized resources. If your school or district does not yet use Hāpara tools, learn more by signing up for a demo. The prompts and questions could drive class conversations, small group discussions or a think-pair-share activity.

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

EdNews Daily

Its biggest divergence has to do with physical structure of where learners and teachers are spending the most time, and the disaggregation of the classroom and modification of the grade groupings. This breaks up the traditional age/grade groupings to make way for dynamic groupings based on individual progress.

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The Social Institute Partners with Additional Public Schools to Bring Modern, Engaging SEL to More Students Across the Country

eSchool News

Juneau School District in Alaska, USD309 Public Schools in Reno County Kansas, and Washington Irving Middle School in Massachusetts are the latest public schools to partner with The Social Institute to empower their students to navigate social-emotional health, social media, and technology positively.

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The Problem with AI Prompt Feedback (and How to Solve It)

The CoolCatTeacher

Because this is a group grade a missing introduction will be -2 and lack of step by step instructions will be -3. The students feel like their group work is close. So, I decided to test it on my demo text from the document. I'm taking a short break on social media so you'll need to email me at vicki at coolcatteacher dot com.

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

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A spokesperson for edX, which started as a nonprofit by Harvard and MIT but is in the process of being sold to for-profit 2U , said the group would share more information about the partnership and its broader shifts in the coming weeks. Imagine learning how the forum was built by actually watching the forum get built right in front of you.”

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