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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

We educators should remain committed to teaching all students with the mission of advancing our cities, states and nation by preparing citizens to meet the economic development and workforce needs of today and tomorrow. If not, college leaders MUST be willing to make the hard decisions and pivot quickly to meet those needs.

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Increasing digital equity in rural areas

Education Superhighway

They created a community survey to obtain the necessary financial information to receive an E-rate discount and released a Form 470 and RFP requesting increased bandwidth. It also means the school can finally open its robotics lab this coming year. What does 1 Mbps per student mean in practice?

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The specific moonshot he recently set his sights on is to revolutionize the teaching of mathematics, specifically for college students who lack basic competencies to meet admission or graduation requirements.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

AI Tools for Teachers: Meet Curipod, AI Lesson Plan Builder 00;06;00;13 – 00;06;09;25 Vicki Davis And so, Amanda, can you give us some examples of some AI powered educational tools and programs and how they've been effective in helping students learn? And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

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Teaching students specific technical skills

Neo LMS

This essentially means preparing students for a changed world of work, one where computers/ robots/ AI are increasingly able to perform human functions: the top functions likely to be taken over by data crunching learning machines are in the legal and accounting professions, as well as rote and repetitive manual tasks.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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