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In the News: On Sony Pursuing Blockchain Applications for Education

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Sony Vows to Bring ‘Blockchain’ Tech to Education. The post In the News: On Sony Pursuing Blockchain Applications for Education appeared first on EdTech Strategies. The post In the News: On Sony Pursuing Blockchain Applications for Education appeared first on EdTech Strategies. As quoted in: Cavanagh, Sean.

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Snap Inc. Chairman, a Former Sony Entertainment CEO, to Join Pearson’s Board of Directors

Marketplace K-12

Chairman, a Former Sony Entertainment CEO, to Join Pearson’s Board of Directors appeared first on Market Brief. Michael Lynton joins the Pearson board in the wake of the company announcing major job cuts to make it leaner and more competitive. The post Snap Inc.

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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

Sony Global Education Inc. Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated.

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

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Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile. They’ve tried several strategies to recruit and retain workers who have specific technical and interpersonal abilities. IBM helped to co-found the Consumer Technology Association Apprenticeship Coalition , which aims to help other companies expand tech apprenticeship programs.

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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. We just want to provide that comprehensive and wraparound support for our students and their families.

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

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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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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are reaching record highs, and a lot of people are looking to cash in on this,” says Doug Levin, founder and president of EdTech Strategies. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout. Of course, there’s no guarantee that EDU coin will have any value in any digital market.

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