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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

Edsurge

This includes girls, who were already underrepresented in STEM fields before the pandemic added new caretaking responsibilities for many of them that sidelined their education. Tanner: I would say the persona of the course is what students are used to finding online, on social media platforms. And these are not just STEM jobs.

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Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 3)

EdNews Daily

The digital generations are highly social – although not in the same way that the older generations are. Today, as a result of constant exposure to digital reading formats, reading also involves viewing the layouts of things such as social media pages, websites, tablets, smartphone screens, ebooks, and video games.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

For this reason, it is likely more important that kids learn to program apps than make web pages. . ClassCraft (for Tracking Game Based Learning Experiences). I got into game based learning. I fired up a laptop, installed dropbox and was back writing within an hour. No problem.

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