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Acer’s Swift 3 is a solid laptop for students

The Verge

A portable device with some compromises I recently surveyed a bunch of students about the most important aspects of a high school or college laptop. It checks all of the “ultrabook” boxes, but it’s a solid “B” student within that category. Students will appreciate that it all feels pretty durable, especially for an ultraportable.

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” “We believe everyone has a purpose.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Reimagining equity with AI: What philanthropy can do

Candid

Organizations like Quill.org use AI-powered tools to provide personalized, free writing instruction for K-12 students, which is particularly beneficial for schools with high student-teacher ratios. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy.

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Robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster at conducting research

The Verge

In a trial reported in Nature today , the robot’s creators, led by PhD student Benjamin Burger, say it was able to perform experiments 1,000 times faster than a human lab assistant, with that speed-up mostly due to the robot’s ability to work around the clock without breaks. Working around the clock to tackle time-consuming research.

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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. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Melbourne-based edtech startup Vivi raises $20M to accelerate overseas expansion in race to reach 1M classrooms

TechCrunch

One-to-one computing refers to academic institutions like schools and colleges, which allow all enrolled students to use electronic devices to access the internet, digital course materials, and digital textbooks. Vivi has created demand overseas in a way that’s pretty unique – and largely by word of mouth.