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AI and journalism in southern Africa: editors are using it but balanced with human expertise and editorial judgement

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The Conversation Africa 3d ago edtech
Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday newsroom work across Africa. It has entered quietly through routine tasks such as transcription, headline writing, translation and content preparation. In southern Africa, where AI…
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A new Youth Advisory Board to share experiences and views on AI in Education

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Children's Commissioner England 6d ago edtech
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Aged 16-18? The Children’s Commissioner is recruiting a new Youth Advisory Board for the Department for Education for you to share your experiences with AI and views on AI in Education. Apply here . About the AI in Education Youth Advisory…
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AI literacy experts advise viewing the tech through a curricular lens

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K-12 Dive Technology 15d ago curriculum
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To boost students’ artificial intelligence literacy, experts suggest using a curricular rather than technological lens, integrating the tech into the classroom offline with younger children, ensuring everyone knows how it works, and making…
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Kritisch-reflexiv mit KI umgehen lernen: Drei Praxisbeispiele aus der translationsorientierten Sprachlehre

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Hochschulforum Digitalisierung 15d ago edtech
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Generative KI verändert zunehmend auch die Ausbildung zukünftiger Übersetzer:innen und Dolmetscher:innen. Gerade in der translationsorientierten Sprachlehre stellt sich daher die Frage, wie Studierende einen kritisch-reflexiven Umgang mit…
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Guidance: Using AI in education: support for school and college leaders

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DfE News Stories 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials for school and college leaders about using AI (artificial intelligence) effectively and safely.
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Guidance: Using AI in education: support for school and college leaders

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DfE Consultation Outcomes 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials for school and college leaders about using AI (artificial intelligence) effectively and safely.
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Guidance: Using AI in education: support for school and college leaders

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DfE Policy Papers 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials for school and college leaders about using AI (artificial intelligence) effectively and safely.
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Guidance: Use cases of generative AI in education: module 4

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DfE News Stories 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges use generative AI (artificial intelligence) safely and effectively.
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Guidance: Use cases of generative AI in education: module 4

edtech
DfE Consultation Outcomes 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges use generative AI (artificial intelligence) safely and effectively.
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United Kingdom

Guidance: Use cases of generative AI in education: module 4

edtech
DfE Policy Papers 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges use generative AI (artificial intelligence) safely and effectively.
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Guidance: Safe use of generative AI in education: module 3

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DfE News Stories 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges understand the risks of using AI (artificial intelligence) and how to mitigate against them.
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Guidance: Safe use of generative AI in education: module 3

edtech
DfE Consultation Outcomes 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges understand the risks of using AI (artificial intelligence) and how to mitigate against them.
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United Kingdom

Guidance: Safe use of generative AI in education: module 3

edtech
DfE Policy Papers 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges understand the risks of using AI (artificial intelligence) and how to mitigate against them.
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Guidance: Interacting with generative AI in education: module 2

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DfE News Stories 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges use generative AI (artificial intelligence) in education settings
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Guidance: Interacting with generative AI in education: module 2

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DfE Consultation Outcomes 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges use generative AI (artificial intelligence) in education settings
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United Kingdom

Guidance: Interacting with generative AI in education: module 2

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DfE Policy Papers 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges use generative AI (artificial intelligence) in education settings
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United Kingdom

Guidance: Understanding AI in education: module 1

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DfE News Stories 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges understand how to use AI (artificial intelligence) safely and effectively in their settings.
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Guidance: Understanding AI in education: module 1

edtech
DfE Consultation Outcomes 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges understand how to use AI (artificial intelligence) safely and effectively in their settings.
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United Kingdom

Guidance: Understanding AI in education: module 1

edtech
DfE Policy Papers 16d ago edtech
Summary
Free support materials to help all staff in schools and colleges understand how to use AI (artificial intelligence) safely and effectively in their settings.
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United Kingdom

Digital platforms are taking part in a battle between diffusion and differentiation

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LSE Business Review 17d ago edtech
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To compete, digital platforms face a dilemma. Should they prioritise rapid growth or build unique features that competitors can’t easily copy? Marvin Hanisch and Curtis Goldsby outline the strategies in the battle between diffusion and…
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United Kingdom

Revealed: the best-performing agents for New Zealand

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The PIE News 22d ago edtech
Summary
Agent performance data has been published by Education New Zealand, focusing on agent-led student visa applications from nine countries: Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam The data does not…
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United Kingdom

Revealed: the best-performing agents for New Zealand

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The PIE News 22d ago edtech
Summary
Agent performance data has been published by Education New Zealand, focusing on agent-led student visa applications from nine countries: Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam The data does not…
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United Kingdom

How stablecoins are extending the monetary power of the United States

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LSE Business Review 23d ago edtech
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Even as traditional indicators point to gradual de-dollarisation, a parallel shift is underway in digital finance. Thunj Chantramonklasri and Ryan Leary examine how the rapid rise of dollar-pegged stablecoins is creating a new form of…
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United Kingdom

In a new survey, AI scores high as a math learning tool

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eSchool News 23d ago higher-ed
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Key points: AI has a role to play in math learning if integrated thoughtfully and correctly When AI means something different in every classroom Three ways school districts can build a sustainable AI framework For more news on AI and math…
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United Kingdom

How AI is shaping elections

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LSE British Politics and Policy 27d ago edtech
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Despite a growing focus on the impact of AI on elections, we know surprisingly little about how voters use AI to engage with politics. In a new survey of UK adults, Sayeh Yousefi , Ben Tappin and Jens Madsen find self-reported AI use for…
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United Kingdom

Should you ask ChatGPT for medical advice?

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Harvard Gazette 30d ago edtech
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Health Should you ask ChatGPT for medical advice? Physician and AI researcher Adam Rodman says AI can be helpful but has some tips on how, when to use it safely Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer May 5, 2026 6 min read Adam Rodman. Niles…
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How should schools teach AI? 3 models to consider

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The Conversation Canada Education 32d ago edtech
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Students across Canada are exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) whether through search engines, writing assistants, automated recommendation systems or social media. That everyday exposure raises a first, fundamental question: What…
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United Kingdom

Oil spikes while stocks slip ahead of US Fed rate decision

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Dawn Pakistan 35d ago edtech
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Oil prices shot higher Wednesday on concerns of an extended blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while Wall Street stocks mostly slid as investors awaited a US Fed rate decision and a slew of tech firm earnings. Both main oil contracts jumped…
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United Kingdom

More Than a Conference: Inside the Community Powering K–12 Tech Leadership

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CoSN 35d ago policy
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More Than a Conference: Inside the Community Powering K–12 Tech Leadership By Ellen Ullman Walk into the CoSN annual conference and one thing becomes immediately clear: This isn’t just another education technology event. Yes, there are…
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United Kingdom

How many pints does an hour’s work buy you?

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Resolution Foundation 41d ago edtech
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Morning all, Amidst… war, plotting and scandal a bumper week of economic data, there were once again (*sticks fingers in ears and pretends war isn’t happening*) nuggets of good news. I wouldn’t be surprised if you missed the latest data on…
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United Kingdom

Districts Relying More on Data to Identify Gifted Students

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EdSurge Tech 42d ago higher-ed
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A group of third grade students gather around a board game on a Wednesday afternoon in a Charleston classroom, grabbing game pieces, discussing potential moves and reading out playing cards. The games are not Monopoly, Sorry, or any others…
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United Kingdom

AI in education: no more marking, lesson planning… teaching… learning?

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IOE London Blog 44d ago edtech
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21 April 2026 By Norbert Pachler and Keith Turvey AI in education is often marketed as an automated substitute for time-consuming pedagogical practices like marking or lesson planning – or guiding learning in real time – that are inherent…
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United Kingdom

Employers say they struggle to find graduates with the right AI skillset

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Higher Ed Dive Online Learning 44d ago higher-ed
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Dive Brief: Although artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way companies do business, 53% of employers said their main challenge was finding graduates with the right AI skills , according to new research from Pearson and Amazon…
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United Kingdom

Edtech and AI companies invited to help build safe AI tutoring tools for disadvantaged pupils

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DfE News and Communications 48d ago edtech
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The government is inviting EdTech companies and AI labs to bid to develop safe, personalised AI tutoring tools designed to improve learning outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged pupils.
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The tensions of AI shouldn’t come as a surprise in a system wired for speed and output

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Wonkhe 49d ago edtech
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For Jo Irving-Walton, generative AI use is just one angle in a wider dopamine problem in higher education
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United Kingdom

AI is the calculator of our era

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LSE Higher Education Blog 51d ago edtech
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With AI now a firm part of the HE landscape, Ignacio Aravena Gonzalez shows how he has changed assessment in his real estate finance course A familiar story sits at the origin of many technology debates in education. In Plato’s Phaedrus ,…
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United Kingdom

Report calls for better evidence on the use of AI in career guidance to ensure all young people benefit

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Nuffield Foundation 52d ago edtech
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According to a landmark review published today, AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work at a time when they face heightened challenges. While AI tools may offer opportunities for better access to…
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United Kingdom

Is AI a scapegoat for destroying education and learning?

edtech
LSE Business Review 55d ago edtech
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Debates surrounding AI in education often reflect broader technological anxieties. Hitoshi Nishimura , Ranmaru Kishitani and Yudai Sakamoto argue that it is not AI itself that undermines learning but its use primarily to accelerate task…
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United Kingdom

Tempo conflict at the heart of AI in higher education

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HEPI Blog 56d ago edtech
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This blog was kindly authored by Somayeh Aghnia, Cofounder, London School of Innovation. The conversation about AI often moves too fast. Faster models. Faster outputs. Faster decisions. And universities, institutions built to move through…
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Writing about a pet frog is trivial? Anne Fadiman disagrees.

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Harvard Gazette 62d ago edtech
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Anne Fadiman. Photo by Gabriel Amadeus Cooney Arts & Culture Writing about a pet frog is trivial? Anne Fadiman disagrees. 'We need beauty, wit, and attention to small things even more when we have to face large, painful things,’ essayist…
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Generative AI exposes longstanding flaws in the use of essay assessments in a mass system

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Wonkhe 63d ago edtech
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Essays used to be a prompt for dialogue, but more recently that conversation has been stripped away. Nigel Francis, David Smith, Kevin Campbell-Karn and Steve Rutherford reflect on how student generative AI use has surfaced a deeper problem
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How adults can help children move from climate anxiety to resilience

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The Conversation UK Education 66d ago edtech
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Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Children have the least control over the planet’s future, but will also be the most affected as it changes. They may well feel the mental toll of the “futility gap”: when individual actions feel meaningless…
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Disadvantage is a predictor of AI use. But not in the way you might think

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Wonkhe 67d ago edtech
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Jim Dickinson finds that disadvantaged students use AI as a production shortcut while their better-off peers treat it as a learning tool – and that the hidden curriculum explains why
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'We're having a moment' - fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial

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BBC News Education 68d ago edtech
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The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.
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Three red flags for “evidenced-based” EdTech

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LSE Education Blog 69d ago edtech
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Given the sector they are targeting, it is perhaps unsurprising that new EdTech tools often claim to be evidence-based. However, as Natalia Kucirkova outlines, these claims can sometimes be difficult … Continued The post Three red flags…
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Judgement under pressure: generative AI and the emotional labour of learning

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SRHE Blog 72d ago edtech
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by Joanne Irving-Walton What AI absorbs and why that matters Most debates about generative AI in higher education fixate on what it produces: essays, summaries, answers, paraphrases. I find myself increasingly interested in something else…
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Teacher Tapp April referrals

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Teacher Tapp Blog 76d ago edtech
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Referral Incentive Terms and Conditions Overview Thank you for being part of Teacher Tapp. To say thank you for helping us grow, we are rewarding you for inviting new teachers to join the app. Between 13 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, you…
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How I’m using AI training across a multi-academy trust

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DfE Teaching Blog 80d ago edtech
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Photo by Amy Hirschi on Unsplash Alan Stupple, director of Maths at Bedfordshire Schools Trust, shares how he’s using the DfE support materials on AI across the trust. My role takes me everywhere from supporting an intervention in year two…
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Do screens help or hurt K-8 learning? Lessons from the UK’s OPAL program

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eSchool News 225d ago General
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Key points: How can we balance digital fluency with human-centered learning? 4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork Edtech teaching strategies that drive sustainability For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative…
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Supporting women and girls in science: building brighter and more prosperous futures by elevating girls in education

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Bridge International Academies 1575d ago higher-ed
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Female representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) worldwide is disproportionately low. Women make-up half the world’s population but account for only 33.3% of researchers globally . The need for gender…
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