Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Arthur Brooks shares, Every year I teach Harvard MBA students about happiness and its unique relationship to leadership. These students are almost all destined for tremendous success as measured in worldly terms: money, prestige, and power. Are they truly on the path to happiness because of their near-certain success?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Having better tools to teach remotely are critical for situations when the physical experience has to be shut down, but even when things are “back to normal”, better tech can still enhance what educators and students can do, and to whom teaching can be delivered. and a new approach to teaching by video remotely. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

But it has also served to highlight the abysmal nature of early years teaching: Some 40 million teachers across the globe are leaving the sector, according to the World Bank. Bina’s “schtick” is that it has very small online class sizes of six students (3x smaller than the OECD average ). It has now raised $1.4

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend. million global views.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2018

Today, the number of online courses, online certificate, and degree programs, and the scores of eager students, has grown exponentially in all disciplines — design included. Suddenly, instead of moving to a costly design capital like New York or London, students can learn the basics from the comfort of their own homes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Surrounding yourself with native speakers helps with pronunciation, context building, and most of all, confidence. The company’s active client base grew 350% year over year, currently at over 50,000 paying students. degree or higher, as well as an international teaching certificate such as DELTA, CELTA, TESOL or TEFL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose. “Younger kids need face-to-face contact, but in college, many students are now juggling work, family and studying, and online can be much more convenient.”

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Teach Some Curiosity. I want students to be playing with technology — using it, finding out what they like, what they don’t like. It’s necessary to point students towards resources, but it isn’t always necessary to choose tools for them. This is the type of education students should have.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The courses focus on group- and project-based learning, teaching kids digital skills including coding, website building, games creation, animation and video editing in a way that’s structured to be more fun and interactive than traditional classroom-based lessons. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round as it enables hundreds of thousands of teachers in the world’s second-largest internet market to run classes online and serve their students. Bangalore-based Teachmint said today it has raised $16.5

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Once they find you and are engaged, you can teach them your language. 2) You can build reputation and reach. Courageous Communication will teach you how to stop trying to be everything to everyone and to develop a strong organizational personality, so you can attract like-minded supporters and raise more money.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Contextual AI lets organizations put a companys proprietary intelligence into a secure data store, then lets them build AI apps that can call on that data. The company behind it, Anysphere , made the smart design choice of building the UX based on Microsofts Visual Studio Code, a familiar programming environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The first kit is basic electronics where kids learn how to build simple circuits, like a doorbell, kitchen timer and a music composer, for example. Around 40% of the students are girls. One instructor is bilingual and teaches some classes in Spanish. The subscription is more expensive than some DIY projects at $59.99/per

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. To mention a few: . To mention a few: .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. The obvious place for Atom was to start was online learning aimed at students.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta, recalls how her name became a source of anxiety even when she was a grade-school student. even just stumbling over a name they had never seen before, the tone set by a teacher about a student’s name [is] something significant.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Now, co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko and Tyler Whittle, a senior associate with the firm, have developed a new program to help student teams similarly develop an understanding of what big ideas look like — and why most concepts are not big ideas. Are you funding these students? Were these students primarily from Stanford?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This number is too big and the likelihood of it increasing is high when you consider aging buildings, extreme weather, a rising number of powered devices, and the energy demands of AI and high-performance computers. One that can potentially lower their buildings carbon emissions and be replicated in the workplace.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Edtech has realized it needs to build for the TikTok generation. As with every edtech startup, a common tension exists : the platform has to be hard enough to teach consumers something, but fun (or easy) enough for them to actually use it. Over 50,000 students have used its platform to date, the company claims.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. Why you need data skills (and why you need to be proactive about building them). To fill this void, we created the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. . How to start building your data literacy .

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. . One: Instructors spend valuable time building courses in learning management systems—time they could be spending with students.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

With most teaching repetitive coding, in a very rigid, instructional way, it tends to appeal more to boys than girls, says EAK. After R&D of two years, it came up with a game designed to teach kids and girls as young as eight skills such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript through highly gamified, story-driven gameplay.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As the technology becomes more embedded in daily life, researchers and educators face two distinct hurdles: teaching people to use these tools responsibly rather than over-relying on them while also convincing AI skeptics to learn enough about the technology to be informed citizens, even if they choose not to use it. .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Stage 2 is about building a solid foundation, and this does NOT include asking for money yet. We had some existing fundraising activities for me to build upon, fortunately. Unfortunately, crowdfunding is not a build-it-and-people-will-come model. That seemed to be the central question. And you know what?

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. One: Instructors spend valuable time building courses in learning management systems—time they could be spending with students. Data Literacy One goes to Canvas.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. Why you need data skills (and why you need to be proactive about building them). To fill this void, we created the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. . How to start building your data literacy .

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The Next Web

JANUARY 2, 2018

It allows students the opportunity collaborate in live time from any device, and from any location, in addition to constantly making learning visible. Strong, powerful, and coherent text is always important- don’t get me wrong- but there are always ways to increase and promote student creativity within Google Docs. #1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Note from Beth: How do we build networks and movements around important social change issues. Building Networks and Movements for Social Justice. This program has much to teach other nonprofits and funders about the support that leaders need to create lasting social change. Click to View Full Infographic.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. Build your own heartspace, share the campaign, and share your love! And now I hope you’ll join me!

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!). These kinds of opportunities are such easy, fun, and impactful ways to get involved, where students learn real, tangible skills that will pave the way for their career preparation.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 23, 2021

Because of this, they lack a true 360-view of their students, alumni, faculty, staff, and where an individual might be in the campus’s lifecycle. Prospective students have plenty of options when it comes to where to pursue their education. Sometimes, prospective students just need a little nudge to complete their applications.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach a course at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as part of the Winter Enrichment Program. But the kind of building we’re interested in or the interests of the users may change. Haven’t We Had This Conversation Before?

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Posted by Hattie Zhou, Graduate Student at MILA, Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Google Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and PaLM , have shown impressive progress in recent years, which have been driven by scaling up models and training data sizes. manipulating symbols based on logical rules). scratchpad and chain-of-thought ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We talked with Galloway yesterday about who, specifically, Section4 aims to serve, what percentage of its students is outside the U.S., ’ TC: You say Section4 has already taught 10,000 students; when did you start offering your programming? TC: You’re promising students access to top professors like yourself.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. Students will learn how to critically analyze data through theoretical and practical exercises.

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