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How to Build a Modern School – 6 Key Elements to Embed in Your Groundwork

ViewSonic Education

This school recognizes that there is a gap in Millennials and Generation Z’s social skills fueled by growing up on mobile phones, social media, and online chatting. In fact, 65% of Millennials in a study felt they are not confident in face-to-face interactions from a survey from One Poll.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S. English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., How do we reverse this crisis in confidence? dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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The path to a career could start in middle school

The Hechinger Report

A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. More social media platforms,” a girl said. If you told someone a decade ago that you could have a career as a social media influencer, they wouldn’t have believed you.”. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics.

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Smartphone Detox: How Teens Can Power Down In A Wired World

MindShift

Pavlov originally set off to study canine digestion. Animal studies suggest it makes dopamine skyrocket in the brain’s reward circuity and is possibly one reason people keep playing slot machines.). “It’s a spectrum disorder,” says Dr. Anna Lembke , a psychiatrist at Stanford University, who studies addiction.

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Getting Games Right: How GlassLab Makes Products Teachers Want

Educator Innovator

Building community around game-based learning requires reaching out into the media space that reaches teachers—whether that be webinars, news articles, conferences, social media, or networking events,” said Rushton. Social studies teacher Matthew Farber said he uses SimCityEDU as a systems learning tool.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

Edsurge

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services. Hire better teachers instead.”

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Reassessing Curriculum Development: Top 3 Factors to Consider

Evelyn Learning

It helps teachers adopt reasonable teaching approaches and it helps students study and learn in an organized manner. As science projects, students are building robots and apps involving machine learning. These two types of students want edtech, so they can study at their own pace”, says Alex. AI has entered into K-12 education.