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Instagram working with schools to take action against bullying, gossip accounts

Mashable Tech

For years, educators and parents have implored Instagram to address student bullying and harassment that often starts on the company's platform and later shows up in the classroom. What's more, it led to a decrease in negative online content that could have resulted in serious safety concerns for our students."

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UC Santa Cruz Students Volunteering for Impact with Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks! This means more than 2,300 pages of text and an amazing gift for the 250,000+ Bookshare student members we serve.

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How to get your educational nonprofit into classrooms, without leaving the office

The Nerdy NonProfit

One method for an educational nonprofit to expand its reach is by getting into the classroom remotely through the use of modern technology. Students with limited resources can benefit tremendously from remote classroom access by educational nonprofits. Virtual classroom connections. Interactive games.

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This is how and when you should show vulnerability at work

Fast Company Tech

Encouraging vulnerability In my work as a facilitator of the Stanford Graduate School of Businesss popular organizational behavior elective, Interpersonal Dynamics (nicknamed touchy feely) we encourage MBA students to experiment with sharing vulnerability in small groups of peers. Theyre not wrong to be cautious.

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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

Candid

One in four students is chronically absent , and many continue to lag in math and reading scores. These effects are even stronger in schools where a majority of students face significant equity barriers because of their racial identities or zip codes. It’s use it or lose it—and our students can’t afford to lose it.

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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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13 Students Graduate ITWorks Fall 2013 Program

TechImpact

ITWorks students graduate December 2013. In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. Through the course of the program, ITWorks students get internship experience while they earn a professional certification in IT. The journey starts here.”.

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