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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats. These steps reinforce the content, skills and information from the learning event.

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Only 2% of tech jobs are held by Black women. Cristina Mancini knows thats unacceptable.

Mashable Tech

Equip our community with the tech and leadership skills they need to thrive in the tech world, while providing supportive in-person and virtual learning environments; launch fulfilling careers.

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Minecraft Education is perfectly suited for this surreal back-to-school moment

The Verge

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. That’s true whether you’re messing around with friends in survival mode or doing coding lessons in class. ”We

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Inclusive AI adoption to drive nonprofit missions

Candid

This openness can foster a learning environment where mistakes are seen as valuable lessons. Chances are, you’re already trying to build a more psychologically safe learning environment, and you can use the AI adoption process to improve learning culture.

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Doyobi, a Singapore-based edtech startup focused on teachers, gets $2.8M seed

TechCrunch

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. It includes courses that link new skills to real-world uses, interactive media and Scratch coding projects to reinforce what students learn in class.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. For the development process, I use my lesson plan and do research for examples – I ask colleagues and do internet scans. write up a documentation strategy as part of lesson plan.

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These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat

The Verge

Edgenuity provides the lessons and grades the assignments. the digital divide in this online learning environment?”. Edgenuity offers over 300 online classes for middle and high school students ranging across subjects from math to social studies, AP classes to electives. Otherwise he would still be getting Fs.

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