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

The Verge

She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. Students on @EdgenuityInc , there's your ticket. He went from an F to an A+ without learning a thing. Edgenuity provides the lessons and grades the assignments. And she decided to game it. Algorithm update.

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

Mashable Tech

These kinds of opportunities are such easy, fun, and impactful ways to get involved, where students learn real, tangible skills that will pave the way for their career preparation. We actually have a number of events with her this spring, including a breakout at the HumanX conference in Vegas and learning workshops with students.

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

TechCrunch

The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too. The platform, which includes teacher training and interactive content for their students, is now used by about 2,000 teachers in more than 10 countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The startup announced today it has raised $2.8

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Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world

TechCrunch

million students. What Jensen did share, though, is that he thinks Labster’s new capital brings the startup one step closer to two big goals: serve 100 million students in the next few years, and become a platform to “enable anyone in the world to customize and build their own simulations on their platform.”.

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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. I prefer flexible space but that isn’t always possible.

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Merlyn Mind emerges from stealth with $29M and a hardware and software solution to help teachers with tech

TechCrunch

published in 2020 (and gathered earlier) finding that teachers were already spending more than half of their time on administrative tasks, not teaching or thinking about how and what to teach or what help specific students might need. To be fair, this problem existed before the pandemic, with research from McKinsey & Co.

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