Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. An effective strategy to utilize the potential of virtual learning is to create a strong sense of community within online classrooms — using the virtual environment as a means to reinforce community practices. Here’s how: 1.Establishing

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But as powerful as this experience is for students, they often wonder how to apply these classroom lessons to the real world. Through sharing and listening to others, they build trust and grow their capacity to empathize, connect, and resolve conflict, ending the class with new lifelong friends. Theyre not wrong to be cautious.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Classrooms: Benefits and Beyond GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. Improved Motivation and Learning Outcomes A strong sense of community in virtual classrooms can significantly boost students’ motivation to learn.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

We hope she is in a classroom with a teacher for at least two days a week; the other days, I will set things up like math puzzles or reading words and let her go to what interests her when it interests her. This year, we are taking the much more Montessori and self-directed approach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. We went into a classroom where I could immediately tell that the teacher there as well as one of the students both had the condition. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

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. To date, the company has activated 5 million robots, and its products are employed by more than 40,000 educators in 20,000-plus schools.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

The idea of changing someone’s perspective — or even life — is a notion that many of us aspire to in building our career path. It quickly became clear to me that my ability to impact a significant population of students and educators was limited by the lack of scale inherent in a typical on-campus classroom.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Like anything else in life, it is what you do with it. My teacher was Mrs. Whitefield and the somewhere else was a quiet classroom where Mrs. Whitefield taught me the skills to manage my dyslexia and attention deficit disorder (ADD). Hindrance or gift is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to a learning disability.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 13, 2023

At each deployment cycle, we add data collected in our classrooms ( bottom-right ). In simulation, we bootstrap from simple scripted policies and use RL, with a CycleGAN-based transfer method that uses RetinaGAN to make the simulated images appear more life-like. From here, it’s off to the classroom. trials from deployment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I first started reading “Cog Dog Blog&# by Alan Levine since his first post in 2003, &# I Blog Therefore I Am.&# Although he was blogging about how to integrate social media into education and the classroom, his ideas have always been transferable to nonprofits. He writes in a humorous, authentic style, about geeky topics.

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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. Another thing I noticed is that Fins have figured out work/life balance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Today, I am pleased to share again a guest post from Garret Kramer of InnerSports LLC about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Abilities rooted in a deep understanding of human behavior remain essential for success in business and life. Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

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. I owe a lot of where I am to taking a class in my graduate year of school that was strictly a real-life class project. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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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. It took years for seat belts to become standard in all vehicles, leaving many people without access to a life-saving tool. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

At the heart of the company’s so-called Fundamental Surgery platform is what it calls HapticVR, which makes virtual procedures more life-like through physical sensory feedback — HapticVR is compatible with myriad handheld devices including haptic gloves and purpose-built controllers. FundamentalVR: Multi-user functionality.

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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. If they never travel abroad in their life, this will be all they know of the U.S. on their own. Even our U.S.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

App Trend of the Year: Explain Everything Whiteboard for helping bring remote classrooms to life. Many of these games and apps were released prior to 2020, but saw a new life as users turned to their smart devices for distractions and connection. The Game of Life. Google Classroom. 9: Toca Life: Hospital.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2012

Today, I am pleased to share a guest post from Garret Kramer of InnerSports LLC about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NRDC Gold – Nonprofit Since 1970, NRDC has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Check out our Davey Award Winners below! congressional districts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

This applies both in building friendships and in building business, and the learning starts right at home and in the classroom. There is so much more to privacy than this, but you can help bring it all to life in your everyday practices and set an example for others to follow at the same time.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Apple wants to push the iPad into classrooms, and the idea of trying to hang on to dozens of Lightning headphones or Bluetooth headphones sounds like a nightmare. If you want to hand your kid or somebody else in your home your iPad, you are handing them your entire digital life.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Google’s Pixelbook Go has solid battery life and a rippled base that’s easy to grip, making it a good choice for kids. Battery life is also a plus, even for distance learners who may not be far from a wall outlet. Chromebooks, like this one from Acer, are a good choice for students who use Google Classroom.

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

Some might think a day in the life of an account executive at a software company is quite similar everywhere. It starts with a mix of classroom trainings led by subject matter experts. The post A Day in the Life of a Classy Account Executive appeared first on Classy. Lauren: Yes, I’ve heard our training program is exceptional.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Will you be spending Thanksgiving with friends who tell great stories, a relative who has wonderful tales from "back in the day," or just someone special whose life you'd like to celebrate? Whose life would you like to celebrate? Whose story would you like to capture?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

So, that's a sneak peek into the secret life of a wiki gardener. See also Social Media Classroom So, I put them on a separate page and am trying to get folks to add their stories. What's your best wiki gardening tip? How do you make this work flow more efficient?

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 11, 2025

Since smartphones, laptops, and tablets are already commonplace in daily life, it makes sense to integrate technology into the classroom… Continue reading on Medium

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sgEngage

JULY 30, 2024

Workforce needs, the desire to create a better life, and later decisions to finish their degree are some of the reasons adult learners return to or continue their education. When you model based on intent, institutional biases change, and you find and recruit students beyond those who are traditionally in your classroom.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

YouTube started life as a video dating service and when they didn’t get much traction they began letting people upload whatever videos they liked. “Our first idea was a classroom lecture tool, ClassMetric, which gave students a button they could press in class to let professors know, in real-time, that they were confused.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 16, 2014

Consider these attributes of great coaches for yourself; then see how they might apply to you, your team, classroom, company, or family. Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life , is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC.

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2022

Whitney Rancourt, a Texas-based elementary school reading teacher, says her students complete many of their assignments in Google Classroom, as well as a few other education softwares that I wasn’t able to download and test because the Laptop SE doesn’t allow users to download things on their own (good for schools, a hassle for me).

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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. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected. I got this.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning. This morning, Bertie , sent me a pointer to this article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Around Gender.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2021

This is often demonstrated in the classroom by standing the tallest person on a chair and having the shortest person ask for something. That’s because as someone dedicated to your important mission, you really need "Lifetime Learning for your Nonprofit Life.". Much of this is because asking for money is fraught with power imbalances.

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