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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...

LEGO Education | August 24, 2020

The LEGO Group and content creation platform Tongal announced today the launch of LEGO® World Builder, a first-of-its-kind story development platform that gives the LEGO fan community and creative talent all over the world direct access to the LEGO creative team to develop stories, shows, and more. LEGO World Builder, designed in partnership with Tongal and powered by Tongal’s technology, connects a worldwide creator community to the LEGO Group, who can incubate ideas, collabora...

edsurge | March 18, 2020

With coronavirus cooping people up in their homes and disrupting businesses across every industry, buckle down for leaner times. Conserve cash. Reduce spend. That’s the message that Sequoia Capital, one of the most active venture capital firms in the business, expressed in a note to its portfolio on March 5. On the flip side, investors like Sequoia have plenty of “dry powder,” the industry parlance for cash on hand. According to PitchBook, private equity firms are sitting on $2...

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Class Technologies | September 20, 2021

Class Technologies Inc., the company enhancing virtual classrooms by adding teaching and learning tools to Zoom, today unveiled new breakout room features and functionality for Class software. View all breakout rooms at once in one place. Monitor activity in breakout rooms at the same time. Send chat messages to and from individual breakout room groups. Share web pages, videos, and files with specific breakout rooms....