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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

includes reading challenges, craft projects, and games where students can earn digital badges online. . Joining with local community arts groups and organizations, the library was able to provide 54 of the original 70 in-person camps they had planned for. Across the nation, libraries are stepping up in a time of crisis.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The education company “dead pool” gets some new cold bodies this week… Professional Educational Services Group , which hires substitute teachers in Michigan, has closed its doors. SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.”