MANILA (Reuters) – In the middle of a coronavirus lockdown in the Philippine capital, Grace Lagaday was struggling to breastfeed her newborn without milk storage bottles and nursing pads.
With shopping centres shut and public movement restricted, Lagaday turned to a centuries-old method of trade with a new tech twist: online bartering.
A search of Facebook barter trade groups found the supplies she needed for her baby girl and they
Building a website is a lot like any DIY project: It’s easy if you’ve got the right tools. There is specialized software on the market that covers every aspect of web design from SEO to professional-looking fonts, and we’ve gathered six of our favorites here. The best part? They’re all on deep discount for Macworld readers.
When it comes to search rankings, the key is being able to carve out
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Q: Here we are with online instruction again, with many schools doing both remote and in-person learning simultaneously. Are we learning anything about teacher-led online instruction that can help us after the COVID crisis is over?
Yes. We’re learning that technology-dependent K-12 learning has no future beyond the pandemic. It’s a stopgap, not a path forward.
For those who don’t know how things are working in many classrooms these
When 12-year-old Nina Mones was in sixth grade last year, she struggled to keep up with her math class, getting stuck on improper fractions. And as the teacher pushed ahead with new lessons, she fell further and further behind.
Then in the fall of 2019, her charter school, the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix, brought in a program called Teach to One 360, which uses computer algorithms and machine learning
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MANILA, Philippines — Pasig government on Wednesday turned over several public school students’ learning gadgets to the Department of Education (DepEd) division in the city.
The city government raised over P1.3 billion funds to procure laptops for teachers and tablets for students.
The gadgets were delivered on Sept. 23 and were placed under inspection to
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Animoto, the company that makes it easy for anyone to create videos, announced that its latest release will be free for students and educators. Animoto 3, the redesigned and reimagined video creator, supports a wide range of learning activities and styles. The ideal tool for the classroom of today, Animoto allows students to work on video projects across varying subjects, while making
As many schools start to opt for online learning, here are tips to minimize distractions at home.
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Before life went sideways in March, Jennifer Ludtke and her daughters were deeply rooted in the public schools in Las Vegas.
Ludtke was a principal of a charter high school and had worked in the Clark County School District, and her daughters took advanced classes at a district middle school.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Grand Rapids Public Library (GRPL) has partnered with five community partners to provide free mobile hot spots to students without internet access, officials said Monday, Sept. 28.
The new service expands internet access to students and their families as they navigate distance and hybrid learning.
“With the expansion of virtual education across the city due to COVID-19, it’s imperative that we confront the digital equity
MANILA, Philippines — Possibly starting the second quarter of this school year, the Department of Education (DepEd) will discourage students with smartphones and electronic gadgets from using printed self-learning modules to cut demand.
In an online briefing on Monday, DepEd Undersecretary Diosdado Antonio said that for the first quarter of the school year, they tried to follow the learning preferences of the students which are printed self-learning modules.
This, however,
Watching commercial aircraft movements in real time.
Someone hiding in the long shadows of the Internet has taken against the world’s most popular flight tracking website, Flightradar24.
The Swedish company hasn’t confirmed it suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack but that seems the most likely explanation for a series of outages and general instability that affected the site from the early afternoon of September 27 ET.
After
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) – The Meridian Public School District will be getting extra help making distance learning possible for all students. Funds from the CARES Act and the Equity in Distance Learning Act are being used to purchase new devices for students and teachers.
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MPSD to receive new technology
“I’m expecting [the new technology] in the next 30-days,” said Tim Boutwell, the director of technology
PAGE COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) – After three years of work and renovations, the West Luray Recreation Center opened in mid-September, and organizers there are already working to help children in the community.
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The West Luray Recreation Center is offering students in the community access to a computer lab, WiFi, and tutors.
Tutors, mentors, and chaperones are available to help students with their schoolwork on Wednesdays
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Aubrie Sloan expected to start sixth grade in a virtual classroom where she would learn from her teacher each day and engage with classmates for
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The Department of Education (DepEd) will discourage students with
A website dedicated to sharing images of Covid-19 related skin rashes to help doctors and patients identify whether an unusual rash might be a sign of coronavirus infection has been criticised for containing just two images of black or brown skin.
The British Association of Dermatologists’ (BAD) Covid-19 Skin Patterns website features 400 images of Covid-associated rashes, from prickly heat and chickenpox-type rashes, to raised itchy hives, and chilblain-like ‘Covid
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By Noora Noushad
About 65% of children entering primary schools may end up working in job types that don’t yet exist-in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the skills needed are innovation, design thinking, technological fluency, heightened social emotional learning. The future of work
Tens of millions of students across the U.S. risk falling farther behind this fall as schools struggle to secure the technology needed to effectively teach online.
The state of play: Many schools across the country ordered child-friendly technology like Lenovo Chromebooks in the spring to continue classes virtually in the fall. But, order backlogs are pushing some arrival dates to as late as October.
Driving the news: The world’s three
Charter is trying to help families that need internet service for virtual learning this school year
ST. LOUIS — With the coronavirus pandemic forcing schools around the area to utilize remote learning, Charter is offering 60 days of free internet service for families in need.
Charter’s Remote Education Offer provides 60 days of free internet access with speeds up to 200 Mbps. In order to qualify, the household needs to
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday directed private as well as government schools to provide gadgets and an internet package to poor students for online classes, saying the absence of such facilities prevent children from pursuing elementary education.
A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula said private unaided schools ‘shall be entitled to claim reimbursement of reasonable cost for procurement of the equipment and internet package
Three artists have partnered to launch a digital platform that allows people unable to march in the streets to participate in Black Lives Matter protests.
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Black Lives Matter activists protesting online through Public Public Address.
High-profile killings of several Black people by police sparked nationwide protests this summer, with marchers demanding police reform and racial justice.
Jason Lazarus, Siebren Versteeg and Stephanie Syjuco founded Public Public
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