TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. This “guided reading” process is fundamental for both instruction and assessment: It not only helps the kids learn, but the teacher can break the class up into groups with similar reading levels so she can offer tailored lessons.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

The classroom teacher was completely surprised at how engaged and vocal the class had become on this topic, as they hadn’t been like this for the other presenting parents. Sometimes you have to be willing to beg for help, and know when to stop asking for money before you ruin relationships with your loved ones. Closing thoughts.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Now Amiras AI tutor can be paired with content from Istations vast library, making its lessons even more effective. Sphero For taking its STEM robots into the classroom For over a decade, Sphero has built interactive robots and STEM educational tools that students of all ages can use in the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under. The Giving 2.0

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Virtual Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - By 2027, it is anticipated that the online learning user base will grow to 57 million individuals. Understanding Virtual Classrooms A virtual classroom is an online learning environment where teachers and students can interact and collaborate in real-time or asynchronously.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Virtual Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - By 2027, it is anticipated that the online learning user base will grow to 57 million individuals. Understanding Virtual Classrooms A virtual classroom is an online learning environment where teachers and students can interact and collaborate in real-time or asynchronously.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Virtual Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems By 2027, it is anticipated that the online learning user base will grow to 57 million individuals. These classrooms typically use video conferencing, chat, and other tools to facilitate communication and collaboration.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

It comes after Merlyn Mind spent about three years quietly building its first release and more recently piloting the service in 50+ classrooms in more than 20 schools. The funding is being led by specialist edtech investor Learn Capital, with other unnamed investors participating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

Rufina’s new job is working for an education software start up that is developing operational software for schools It is called: EnTeEf: “Enabling Teachers’ Effectiveness “ in classrooms. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have become standard tools for teachers who have had to run lessons remotely since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The platform offers parents of preschool children “gamified” educational content and structured lessons available on mobile devices. The startup will now launch a Classroom feature with learning tracks in five core Kindergarten and Grade 1 courses, including Math, Phonics, Science, Arts and Logic.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

With Education Edition , Microsoft created a more formal structure, with pre-made lessons covering everything from chemistry and coding to giving students the opportunity to explore the International Space Station. You can even play that old classroom staple The Oregon Trail. It’s actually entertaining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Im sure you remember evenings when you were studying or working alone in a classroom or office, only to have the lights suddenly shut offforcing you to do a little dance to turn them back on. Our buildings today dont understand what users need or intend. The situation is similar with HVAC systems.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 24, 2013

In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. Even on graduation, students had lessons to learn. ITWorks students graduate December 2013. Over the past 16 weeks, they’ve been fully immersed in the IT world and today they graduate. Keynote speak R.J.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Founded by Tade Oyerinde in 2018, Campuswire is a virtual solution for any teacher who wants to digitize their internal classroom communications, from Q&A time to the lecture itself. Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts filled in the gap for classrooms that couldn’t afford fancy licenses. The strategy, for the most part, has worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I select guests who can answer a specific set of questions related to my lesson plan or expand on an example of a campaign or example that I share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods. It resonated.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As schools move more widely into reopening their doors for in-person learning, many educational institutions have also learned a critical lesson in the last year. This is already a step change, when you think about it, from the likes of Teams from Microsoft, Google Classroom or Zoom. ” Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It’s happening through Slack or Zoom or Google Classroom or Hangouts or Meet. Students could review material they didn’t get the first time, for example, or catch up on lessons they had to miss. “If If they learn how to do that even when the classroom comes back, it’d be a shame not to keep that going,” Szafranski says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. write up a documentation strategy as part of lesson plan.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Here are the ideal tech lesson plans and class schedules they suggested: 1. Instead, tech education within and outside of the classroom should focus on encouraging all people to have a robust interest in technology tools and applications. Teach Some Curiosity.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

The AI Education Project provides AI-powered resources that streamline lesson planning and integrate AI literacy into classrooms. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. In the nonprofit space, large language models like ChatGPT can support overworked staff that operate with limited resources.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Teachers play an outsize role in shaping learning outcomes, yet most edtech innovations take the teacher in the classroom completely out of the picture.”. In addition to developmental training for teachers that include live video lessons, the startup built its own virtual learning environment for educators to use with kids.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Google hopes the tool will make it easier for students and teachers to record virtual lessons. Teachers have long recorded lessons to help students do homework and study for tests, but in the past year it’s become downright critical for virtual learning,” reads Google’s blog post. It looks pretty simple.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The employee, who would go on to become chief designer at Duolingo, had gone to college to teach Spanish to students, but ultimately left the field after struggling to inspire kids in a classroom setting. In Duolingo, each unit has its own suite of skills, each of which is broken down into five lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2003

Early Connections - Preschool is a great set links from the Northwest Technology Consortium on integrating technology into the pre-school classroom. According to this site, In the preschool classroom, children and teachers are working on readiness skills and early literacy experiences.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. 10 Ways to Keep Black People and Their Allies Out of Jail. Tips for Safely Bringing Home a Rescue Dog. How to Protect Your Pets in a Natural Disaster. Arts and culture.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

It may seem like a radical pivot, but in fact, the lessons of how to create useful security tests at scale for consumers would one day offer the core DNA for building one of the most successful edtech companies in the world. Enthusiasm was boiling, and virtual instruction felt like a nascent, but ambitious, place to bet on.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Here are a few lessons I’ve learned, in no particular order: You need to make sure that your mission, operations, and desired outcomes are aligned with each other. Carefully tailored one-to-one desk-side coaching usually increases a worker’s effectiveness much more quickly than classroom training. the possible solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 4, 2011

About eighteen months ago, I was standing outside a Thai classroom in the open courtyard of an elementary school in Bangkok, watching from a second-story perch as Thai children "marched" in the center recreation area. Perched outside that classroom, I suddenly felt an overpowering sense of pride to have been born a U.S. on their own.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Parents would often appear near the door of this classroom. One even sat in it during an entire lesson. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Local problems, local solutions. I got this. But that bench. I couldn’t do it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

In the process, the accelerator started building tools that could be used outside of the classroom. The “lessons” such as they are come in bite-size engagements, which can be run through in minutes if needed. Through all of that, Hyusyan said she realised that there was an opportunity in itself to focus just on this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills.

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