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If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: Edtech that connects students to role models 

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: Edtech that connects students to role models  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"DreamWakers is a nonprofit that uses free and existing video technology to connect under-resourced classrooms across the U.S. with diverse career professionals ..."

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Graduation rates: The telltale sign of success or indicator of failure?

Graduation rates: The telltale sign of success or indicator of failure? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"For millions of students, attending college is a means to a better life: more job prospects, and higher earnings over a lifetime. While students who enroll and graduate from an institution of higher …"

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Three ways tech is reinventing a surprising sector

Three ways tech is reinventing a surprising sector | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"More than 1 million users. Sixteen billion monthly page views. Ninety-nine percent user engagement. If these sound like stats from tech companies, you’re ..."

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Microsoft, Code.org will use Minecraft to teach kids programming

Microsoft, Code.org will use Minecraft to teach kids programming | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with Code.org, the nonprofit that offers free programming tools for kids, to bring its best-selling personal-computer game Minecraft to the group’s popular Hour of Code tutorials ..."

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Nine fundraising tools to watch in 2015

Nine fundraising tools to watch in 2015 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Over the last six months Nonprofit Tech for Good has bookmarked over 50 fundraising tools to prepare for this blog post. When the time came to write the post, at least 25% of the fundraising tools ..."

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New Vision for Education: Unlocking the potential of technology

New Vision for Education: Unlocking the potential of technology | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"...In this report, we undertook a detailed analysis of the research literature to define what we consider to be the 16 most critical “21st-century skills”. Our study of nearly 100 countries reveals large gaps in selected indicators for many of these skills – between developed and developing countries, among countries in the same income group and within countries for different skill types ..."

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Education is still the key to having a trained workforce. The ability to adapt the organisations' policies to incorporate better education minimum standards will assist in better acknowledgement of the minimum standard that is required by the company involved. A higher education level will lead to a higher skilled workforce through their ability to easily comprehend what is being taught to them.

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New digital textbook that adapts to your level of knowledge as you read

New digital textbook that adapts to your level of knowledge as you read | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A new digital textbook introduced to the students in Houston, Texas are the first digital schoolbook in which lessons are personalized ..."

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Web 101: Mozilla's next act teaches people how to use the Internet — for free - VentureBeat

Web 101: Mozilla's next act teaches people how to use the Internet — for free - VentureBeat | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The nonprofit browser-maker is offering free Internet courses to anybody who wants them — yes, whomever wants them — starting today ..."

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Open source is quietly powering a virtual revolution in some countries

Open source is quietly powering a virtual revolution in some countries | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Learning Equality is a non-profit organisation launching a next-gen offline platform called Kolibri ..."

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Nine top platforms for finding a mentor in 2016

Nine top platforms for finding a mentor in 2016 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Whether it's through software or online services, finding career guidance is only a click away these days ..."

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Literacy Bridge: How one organization is adapting technology to help world’s poorest - Humanosphere

Literacy Bridge: How one organization is adapting technology to help world’s poorest - Humanosphere | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost half of all nonprofits and public charities end in failure. This is due to a lot of different factors – lack of planning is ..."

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Teaching kids how to code with Minecraft - O'Reilly Radar

Teaching kids how to code with Minecraft - O'Reilly Radar | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I am jealous of kids these days. The sheer breadth and depth of technology and software at their disposal is staggering, everything from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Scratch to ..."

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About | Open Badges

About | Open Badges | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges take that concept one step further, and allows you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through credible organizations ..."

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A new structure for recognizing professional growth

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Minority languages: Cookies, caches and cows

Minority  languages: Cookies, caches and cows | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"...Translators must express technological terms in languages shaped by livestock, farming and fishing, and choose alternatives for culture-specific words such as “cookie”, “file” and “mouse” ..."

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A school built entirely around the love of math

A school built entirely around the love of math | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Designers of the new, non-profit Proof School intend to provide mathematically gifted youth an intensive and complete education in grades 6-12 that typical schools can't muster ..."

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