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A Japanese city is using avatar robots in classrooms to tackle student absenteeism

TechSpot

The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper writes that the education board of Kumamoto, a city in southwest Japan, is launching the initiative as a way to reduce anxiety for absentee children in the hope of coaxing them back into the classroom. They could also make the transition easier for those pupils who. Read Entire Article

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Teacher Crowdfunder Receives iHeartMedia Support and Corporate Match for Back-to-School Fundraisers

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This year, DonorsChoose, a crowdfunding platform for teachers, donors and school districts that helps to bridge that gap, has teamed up with iHeartMedia to support public school classrooms.

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Google Classroom now lets teachers add interactive questions to YouTube videos

TechCrunch

Google launched today a new feature for Classroom that allows teachers to turn any YouTube video into an interactive assignment by inserting questions for their students to answer throughout the viewing experience.

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New Google Classroom tool gives hints on tough homework problems

The Verge

That’s Practice Sets, the newest Google Classroom tool, in a nutshell. Google Classroom, for folks who went to school before the internet was everything, is a widely used gaggle of web tools that allows teachers to post assignments, students to submit them, and teachers to return them online. . | Image: Google.

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Harvard is bringing its own brand of generative AI to the classroom

TechSpot

Computer Science 50, also known as CS50, is one of Harvard's largest and most popular courses. The introductory-level computer science course spans a number of topics including coding languages, computer science concepts, IT security, and artificial intelligence.

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Melbourne-based edtech startup Vivi raises $20M to accelerate overseas expansion in race to reach 1M classrooms

TechCrunch

The US, thus, remains a rich market for edtech companies like Vivi, which offers wireless presentation and screen mirroring technology to over 40,000 classrooms around the world, with the plan of reaching one million learning spaces in the next five years.

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Uniting the world in the classroom: How AI breaks barriers in a Belgian school

Microsoft AI

Jef Groffen, a principal in Belgium, won the first-ever AI in Education award in the European Union for his innovative use of Microsoft technologies, particularly Reading Progress. His school, with students from 70 different nationalities, achieved remarkable reading progress in just two months.

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