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

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Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta yesterday, as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sweeping vision of creating a next-generation “embodied” internet inspired by science fiction, where users, as he described it , will be “in the experience, not just looking at it.” And he is targeting education as one key part of that vision.

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Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations

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Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards. While some institutions have tried to punt responsibility for the accessibility of digital tools to the companies that produce them, that reasoning hasn’t persuaded federal agencies or judges. “The

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Professors Try Teaching With TikTok. But It’s Not for ‘Boring, Lecturing Things.’

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Bringing Science to the Public One of Caitlin Light’s many duties as an assistant professor at Binghamton University is running the social media accounts for the first-year research immersion program, and students quickly had some advice for her: No one uses Instagram anymore. Will it come to play a role in college classrooms?

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A Small College Hopes to Claim Artificial Intelligence for the Liberal Arts

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Embedding the study of artificial intelligence within the liberal arts will hopefully lead to it being used in “ethical ways that don’t reproduce existing social ills,” McFadden says. Proponents of this approach say that it’s important to temper the potential power of AI by rooting it in morality, history and sociology.

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Why your young students love e-learning

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Students are particularly excited about all of the new possibilities digital learning can offer. Why do kids love e-learning? Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

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” Get ready to discover innovative strategies for integrating technology into early education, building Student Agency, and why your professional learning network can be a game-changer for your teaching career. Today's sponsor, EVERFI, has created an incredible set of early literacy lessons called WORD Force.

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New Jersey’s Plainfield Public School District Forms New Partnership with Discovery Education to Create Digital Learning Environments Districtwide

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This new collaboration enables PPSD’s educators to integrate Discovery Education’s Science, Math and Social Studies Techbooks into classroom instruction districtwide, creating dynamic digital learning environments for all students that will prepare them for life beyond the classroom.