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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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We share these tools with parents so that they can reinforce the strategies at home. School leaders used specific strategies to ensure that these volunteers could support instruction and help improve reading outcomes effectively. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ? TECH USED ?

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

Google gave a similar live lesson service a shot—minus the cryptocurrency—where viewers and experts could connect via Google Hangout to learn skills such as photography, cooking or education. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout. Not to mention platforms like YouTube have no shortage of free how-to videos).

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

There’s just a giant gap there,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. This week, they’re building basic apps and games using Firebase, a Google platform. While he continues working on website projects, Seck is now teaching coding to high school students at a skills academy in Stamford.

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome. In addition to social learning opportunities, the platform includes courses on theories of learning, classroom and behavior management, and effective communication strategies for caregivers and school leadership.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “2-Pronged Strategy Against ‘ Gainful ’ Rule.” ” The Google Memo. Via Motherboard : “ Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’ ” Via Wired : “Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto.”

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Five Ethical Considerations For Using Virtual Reality with Children and Adolescents

MindShift

All the major players, including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google and an HTC and Valve partnership are jostling for the consumer headset market. Google Expeditions allows students to take over 100 virtual journeys from ancient Rome to the surface of Mars. As an educational tool, VR might prove transformative.