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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

Meta announced Tuesday the launch of curriculum designed to help middle schoolers spot and avoid online exploitation, including a technique commonly known as sextortion. The content offers videos, scripted lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities. Parents and educators have a new tool in the fight against online exploitation.

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Go read this Adobe designer’s take on why Google Classroom is so joyless

The Verge

As students around the world continue to study from home as a result of the pandemic, Google’s Classroom software has fast become an invaluable remote learning tool. Adobe Principal Designer Khoi Vinh has used his blog to weigh in on where he thinks Google’s software goes wrong. But Google Classroom is a different story.

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Why some school districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

Fast Company Tech

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Windows are low to the ground so children can easily look outside. Hallways are lined with a corrugated plastic for wiggly fingers to touch as children transition to other locations.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. Good design can and should be accessible design.

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Litnerd streams live actors into the classroom to help kids better connect with reading

TechCrunch

The goal is to identify the categories and genres that best catch each age group’s (Pre-K through fifth grade) attention, then write books that, as the team puts it, “help celebrate diversity and inclusion so that all children can see themselves in the stories.” Especially when it comes to K-5 years.

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Amira Learning raises $11M to put its AI-powered literacy tutor in post-COVID classrooms

TechCrunch

In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. bringing fairly conventional edtech software into elementary school classrooms at scale. “We’ve always struggled in this country to help our children become fluent readers. Image Credits: Amira Learning.

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The kids are not alright. Here’s how philanthropy can help  

Candid

Casey Foundation’s annual KIDS COUNT Data Book , are alarming: Too few children are graduating from high school ready to earn because many aren’t arriving ready to learn—or not regularly attending school at all. These trends, highlighted in the Annie E. It’s not too late for these programs to help students catch up. Community schools.