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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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When we rolled out our classroom tech demos, parents were pulling me aside, saying how much these programs (Read180, System 44, iRead, Math180) would have helped, how they wished they had this tech as kids. KOOV is an educational robotics and coding kit for ages eight and up, made up of blocks, sensors, actuators, and a companion app.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” In fact, Axios suggests that Google might have staged the demo it gave of its new voice assistant. ” Via The New York Times : “ L.G.B.T.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. As the decade went on, the arguments for surveilling students’ social media have changed several times. But when he and the head of the UN Kofi Annan went to demo the device, its signature feature — a hand crank that would power it — fell off.

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