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Why This Mid-Sized North Carolina District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement

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Here, she explains how Course of Mind is helping her district strategically incorporate learning technology into their curriculum. EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ? We're about 60 percent economically disadvantaged here in the district. So, we do try to look at equity.

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With Stressed-Out Students in Challenging Times, Faculty Must Embrace Caring Practices

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So I explored the notion of caring pedagogy and discovered, to my surprise, that it goes all the way back to the 1930s and ‘40s, to the pioneering work of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, noted in learning-science circles among the founders of social constructivist theory.

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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

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Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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Inside the Push to Bring AI Literacy to Schools and Colleges

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She is a member of President Biden's National AI Advisory Committee and a co-author of the 2022 World Economic Forum report, "A Blueprint for Inclusivity in AI.” Those guests are: Susan Gonzales, who founded the nonprofit AIandYou to spread AI literacy.

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