ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset. While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. At least, in theory. And what are they learning about?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented. One consideration is that BIPOC solution providers and developers likely possess deep community and cultural expertise but often lack the necessary access to share their solutions.

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Edthena

AUGUST 17, 2015

Amanda Huza, middle school principal of Equality Charter School in The Bronx, knew that video had the potential to be a powerful tool for the teachers and coaches on her staff. Well it’s changed the whole culture, really. She needed a system for video that wouldn’t overwhelm her teachers and coaches.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We

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