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

Mashable Tech

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. I also encourage teachers, parents, and family members to check out our Code Along series!

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Google Meet now lets you cast your videoconferences to the TV screen

The Verge

“We recognize that many schools are moving to distance/remote learning, and we wanted to support this new learning environment for teachers and students,” Yang said. Meet on Chromecast will let you host or join meetings giving you the opportunity to connect with classmates, collaborate on projects, and even attend lectures.”.

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Zoom’s new focus mode could keep students from distracting each other

The Verge

When activated, Focus mode will make it so that a meeting’s participants won’t be able to see each other’s videos or screen shares, while the host is still able to see everyone’s webcams. It seems likely that virtual classrooms are going to be sticking around for some, so it’s good that Zoom is adding features to improve tele-learning.

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Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS

Gyrus

These features include: Customizing multimedia elements, such as videos, images, and other interactive elements. Developing adaptive learning paths to tailor the content and assessment based on employee’s learning styles, progress, and performance and offer personalized training.

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. Some of the videos, however, I found to be a bit sleepy. But what's good, effective, and also entertaining for kids? I think I may have a lead for you.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. 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. You can register here. In Education.

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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.