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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

The content offers videos, scripted lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities. The scams were highly coordinated and relied partly on thousands of since-removed Facebook assets, like accounts, pages, and groups, that sold scripts and guides for how to scam people using collections of photos to populate fake accounts.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

The app gives busy parents on-demand access to scripts and other personalized guidance, drawing on Kennedys expertise and advice from other parenting coaches. Both products are intended to be easily incorporated into the classroom, and Spheros new education resource hub makes it easier for teachers to compile lesson plans.

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Robotic deep RL at scale: Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots

Google Research AI blog

We bootstrap policies from data generated with a script ( top-left ). 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.

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So you’re thinking about Virtual Instructor-Led Training?

Tableau

Our virtual training instructors don’t follow a script and answer any questions you might have throughout the course. Once you get into the virtual classroom, you will quickly understand how fun and engaging our virtual classes and instructors are. Guess what?! You can ask questions about the content the instructor is demonstrating.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because both participants and trainers are members of our ning site, participants can continue discussions with trainers where they left off in the classroom and share the discussion with others. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users.

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So you’re thinking about virtual instructor-led training?

Tableau

Our virtual training instructors don’t follow a script and answer any questions you might have throughout the course. Once you get into the virtual classroom, you will quickly understand how fun and engaging our virtual classes and instructors are. Guess what? You can ask questions about the content the instructor is demonstrating.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. What I wasn't able to find was any research that spoke to the pros and cons, in a scientific way, of integrating social media into instruction. Know of any?

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