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

Mashable Tech

There's the current war on DEI, with companies like Google and Meta killing their diversity programs. We have a lot of exciting initiatives and programming coming up this year – including a new season of our free video-based coding academy, Code Along , which will be released and available on YouTube later this month.

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The dangers of offering unpaid internships at your startup

The Next Web

Startup cultures are one of a kind, and they make great, immersive learning environments for students and recent graduates. When it comes to internship programs, startups offer the chance to become a much-needed, valuable addition to a team of go-getters. Great paid internship programs act as fluid talent pipelines.

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Teaching with Tech: The Incredible—and Inevitable—Evolution of the Digital Classroom

Byte Technology

a single computer running basic DOS for an entire school was considered the very cutting edge of the tech-enhanced learning environment. Today 48 states support online learning programs, and 95 percent of institutions of higher learning offer online classes.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Check out more highlights from the Festival program here.

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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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Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company

TechCrunch

Today’s announcement comes after a messy 2020 for Holberton, and not only because the pandemic put a stop to in-person learning. In return, students provide a set amount of their salary for the next few years to the school as part of a deferred tuition agreement, up to a maximum of $85,000. Europe, LatAm and Africa.

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An ed-tech specialist spoke out about remote testing software — and now he’s being sued

The Verge

Between August 23rd and 24th, Ian Linkletter, a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), made a series of tweets criticizing a software that his school uses. The software was called Proctorio, an online test-proctoring tool that monitors students for suspicious behavior while they take virtual exams.

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