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New Advocacy Campaign Calls for Banning Facial Recognition on College Campuses.

Edsurge

Though that particular instance isn’t true, the scenario taps into the very real concerns that privacy activists have about the potential application of face surveillance software on college campuses. These advocacy efforts in K-12 schools, she adds, may have influenced the new college campaign.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In The second floor is a highly configurable makerspace with the potential to cultivate abstract inventiveness. But it’s also a space where they can write a book,” she says.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Effective Advocacy. The problem with the main earlier label, “free software,” was not its political connotations, but that—to newcomers—its seeming focus on price is distracting. Christine and others who advocated for the new phrase “open source software” were prescient in doing so.

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New Approaches to Instructional Technology Coaching

Digital Promise

Coaches have taken on larger advocacy roles and are serving as liaisons between teachers and administration to communicate ongoing distance learning challenges and needs, as well as offer feedback and suggestions on district-approved applications, software, and systems.

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VR Gives Students New Ways to Learn

EdTech Magazine

Teachers used VR headsets and software to make lessons more engaging and realistic in subjects such as science and history. VR headsets and software can provide lifelike simulations that allow students to repeat behaviors multiple times before applying their learning in the real world.

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VR Gives Students New Ways to Learn

EdTech Magazine

Teachers used VR headsets and software to make lessons more engaging and realistic in subjects such as science and history. VR headsets and software can provide lifelike simulations that allow students to repeat behaviors multiple times before applying their learning in the real world.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

Edsurge

Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia. In the last year-and-a-half, they have filled 325 jobs, says Katie Hopps, who manages the program and software for the sub pool for ECEA.