Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All that said, when doing your shopping this year, please be conscious of the power of your spending and put your dollars to work for good by purchasing from any of the 22 online gift stores that benefit nonprofits – especially on #GivingTuesday. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Online Store.

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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. This format makes it fall into more standardized language learning labor models.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Classroom Teaching Redefined: A Revolution in Today’s World GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The traditional classroom setup has been around for centuries and hasn’t changed much since the dawn of time. With the demands of the 21st-century workforce, classroom teaching is going through a revolution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Classroom Teaching Redefined: A Revolution in Today’s World GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The traditional classroom setup has been around for centuries and hasn’t changed much since the dawn of time. With the demands of the 21st-century workforce, classroom teaching is going through a revolution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Classroom Teaching Redefined: A Revolution in Today’s World Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems The traditional classroom setup has been around for centuries and hasn’t changed much since the dawn of time. Gamification: Gamification is the use of game-like elements in non-game contexts.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

Working with a group of visionary educators, we’ve been able to achieve amazing milestones, such as introducing Tableau to all first year students at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018. Tableau Academic Programs works towards data literacy for all, such as our data literacy curriculum for higher education.

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Candid

JULY 31, 2024

To get students back on track, we need to get resources immediately into classrooms, stop shifting the financial burdens of education onto teachers, and enable teachers to engage with students in innovative ways. Since 2020, DonorsChoose has partnered with 10 states to allocate a total of $100 million in ESSER funding to classrooms.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Meanwhile, other education companies are using artificial intelligence to train both our youngest learners and working professionals who are looking to upskill and adapt to evolving technologies. Through AI simulations, users can practice real-world communication and work on their leadership skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Sense of Community in Virtual Classrooms Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%. Here’s how: 1.Establishing

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Creators of the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, an educational philosophy that emphasizes child-led learning, even refer to the environment as the third teacher in a classroom.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Recently, on March 8th, International Womens Day was recognizeda moment that originally sprung from a movement to fight against child labor and sweatshop working conditions. Female genital mutilation still occurs Last month, I traveled to Senegal to see UNICEFs work firsthand.

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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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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Our Volunteer Program Manager Brenda Hendricksen and Volunteer Program Coordinator Madeleine Linares have been working on this pilot project with UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computer Engineering Roberto Manduchi. A group of over 40 of Roberto’s students worked in three teams, each focused on completing a different textbook.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2021

Over the past eight years, David Farley has worked at three different schools within North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system. Hough High School, where he currently serves as assistant principal, and has worked closely with EOS over the years to identify and enroll diverse students in advanced courses. Neal Myrick.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In addition, Google is integrating Meet and its Google Classroom product more tightly. Students won’t be able to join Meet calls created from Classroom before the teacher does, and Meet will be able to restrict meetings to just students and teachers in a class based on a Classroom roster.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

You have logged off from work and are unwinding with a glass of wine. Julien Frei and Lea Perret [Image: 6pm in Paris] Learning as a lifelong journey Perret imagined 6pm in Paris as a way to help students learn French beyond the classroom. It is 6 p.m. Not on your desk. Not on your phone. But on your couch, watching a short movie.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s a useful ability to have, but many teachers are working from home because of COVID and may not have access to one like they would in the classroom. For more information on how the app works, the developer has made a how-to video , which you can watch below.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

While Microsoft has been trying to compete with Chromebooks for years, Windows still lacks a simple way for educators to wipe and reuse laptops for classrooms. If this edition of Windows 11 is truly aimed at the education market, then it may need to borrow some of the ease of use features from Chrome OS.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2021

Over the past eight years, David Farley has worked at three different schools within North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system. Hough High School, where he currently serves as assistant principal, and has worked closely with EOS over the years to identify and enroll diverse students in advanced courses. Neal Myrick.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

Working with a group of visionary educators, we’ve been able to achieve amazing milestones, such as introducing Tableau to all first year students at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018. Tableau Academic Programs works towards data literacy for all, such as our data literacy curriculum for higher education.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Schoolytics was founded by Aaron Wertman and Courtney Monk, both of whom previously worked on data science at the textbook rental/online tutoring/education mega-co Chegg. Monk also spent over half a decade working with Teach For America, and is a school board member in her local school district. Image Credits: Schoolytics.

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Charity Village

JULY 29, 2021

As we know, love is not a frequently used term in our workplaces and classrooms. It is, maybe, even more tentatively used in relation to service. In this series, we have begun to illuminate the relevance of exploring the energy of love as an integral element of serving each other in our world ~ especially […].

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Zoom has announced that it’s acquiring a company known as Kites (short for Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), which has worked on creating real-time translation and transcription software. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Zoom already has real-time transcriptions , but it’s limited to people who are talking in English.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Offer recognition and tangible rewards to individuals and groups that work together successfully.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

As if the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t already blurred the lines between work and home enough, students and teens are going viral on TikTok after making Notion boards that mimic teen Tumblr feeds. I’m sure hardly any of these teens are walking into physical classrooms anymore.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Instead of one-size-fits-all, forcing all students and educators to work within the limitations of a single approach, it will then be possible to adapt content and technology to meet the learning needs of each student.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Several of our prior works explored how RL can enable intricate robotic skills, such as robotic grasping , multi-task learning , and even playing table tennis. At each deployment cycle, we add data collected in our classrooms ( bottom-right ). From here, it’s off to the classroom. trials from deployment. trials from deployment.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Google launched Expeditions for its Cardboard VR viewer in 2015 , and classrooms could get boxes of Cardboard headsets for “virtual field trips.” “As Arts & Culture will offer many of the Expeditions tours, we’ll no longer support the Expeditions app.”. You can even view some Arts & Culture content in Cardboard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It signals a shift from startups playing in the supplemental education space and searching to win a spot in the largest chunk of a students day: the classroom. Class, launched less than a year ago by Blackboard co-founder Michael Chasen , integrates exclusively with Zoom to offer a more customized classroom for students and teachers alike.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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. “Younger kids need face-to-face contact, but in college, many students are now juggling work, family and studying, and online can be much more convenient.”

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2022

In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. Despite their intention, the breakout doesn’t necessarily simulate the classroom experience—sometimes, when there’s no clear purpose, it feels more like being in a stuck elevator. . . Welcome everyone. Break it up—or don’t!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And two-thirds of all students attended schools where at least 20% of students were chronically absent , often resulting in slower progress for whole classrooms. To help kids make up for lost classroom time, funders can work with nonprofits to enhance the tutoring programs at least 16 states have launched.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2020

million books for people unable to get to classrooms or libraries during the coronavirus pandemic. The Authors Guild said in March that the Internet Archive was “acting as a piracy site” that violates authors’ rights to their works. “We It opened the “emergency” program in March , providing free access to 1.4

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Google’s Workspace Status Dashboard is reporting that Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Classroom are all experiencing service disruptions. Downdetector is currently showing spikes in issues with Google Drive, Google Classroom, and Google itself, though we’ve not encountered any issues on Google’s main search site. Developing.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Working with data is a necessity for most jobs, and analytical skills can be a huge differentiator for success across all kinds of work—whether corporate, nonprofit, or academic. I designed these courses to help teachers and academics foster the next data-native generation by furthering students’ data skills in the classroom.

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