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Study International | March 05, 2020

Facial recognition technology is growing in sophistication. The technology is already being used to unlock our mobile phones, identify shoplifters, enhance security at airports and track students’ attendance. Despite the proliferation of the technology, its use on university campuses has not bode well with fractions of students. Recently, students across the US have participated in protests demanding their schools refrain from using facial recognition on campus, report The Guardian. Studen...

educationdive | April 08, 2020

Composer — a free digital resource from High Resolves, Facing History and Ourselves, iCivics, Generation Citizen and Peace First — enables educators to access a variety of citizenship education materials to produce cross-disciplinary instructional “strings,” with guides and suggestions on how students can practice what they’ve learned through real-world experiences. The tool, produced with funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Imaginable Futures, currently...

educationdive | January 24, 2020

A 100Kin10's 2019 Trends Report identifies increasing STEM teacher diversity, applying greater focus on STEM subjects in early childhood education, and a rise in environmental literacy in response to student activism and interest as trends that will shape STEM education in 2020. While technology is a part of many classrooms, 2020 is also expected to bring a more comprehensive approach to the tools around digital literacy training for teachers and digital citizenship for students. Still, whil...

NWEA | August 06, 2020

As millions of students get ready to return to school, school districts are preparing for a large number of them to be learning remotely. This presents a challenge for schools that need to triage the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on learning from this past spring with the cumulated impact of summer break. Teachers will need reliable, quality data on where students are academically to determine best paths forward to customize instruction and overcome learning loss during one of the most tu...