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Can Teachers and Parents Get Better at Talking to One Another?

The New Yorker

It was a weekday afternoon in the spring when my son's kindergarten teacher got in touch about the ghost teen. During a social-studies unit about families, the teacher reported, my son had regaled his classmates with tales of his eighteen-year-old brother, who picks him up every afternoon at dismissal. I laughed out loud when I received this note, which was sent via ClassDojo, the messaging app used by our public elementary school in Brooklyn. My son has no brother of any age, and yet I could picture this brother immediately--I imagined him, for some reason, as one of the seniors from "Dazed and Confused," leaning against his scuzzy, old Pontiac parked just outside the school gate, a Marlboro Red hanging from his lips, Foghat wafting from the tape deck. But the teacher did not seem amused.

  faber, teacher and parent, winnicott, (14 more...)
  Country: Asia > Japan > Honshū > Kantō > Tokyo Metropolis Prefecture > Tokyo (0.05)
  Industry: Education > Educational Setting > K-12 Education (0.88)

How Fliplearn plans to flip the way students study in India

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The platform is providing a holistic online solution for teachers, students, and parents. Over two decades ago, Educomp set out to change the entire education system in the country. Since then, it claims to have empowered over 30 million learners and educators across over 65,000 schools. While Educomp was continuing to overhaul the education ecosystem through its smart class programmes, the top leadership in the company realised that they needed to take education beyond the conventional classrooms. Now, instead of taking students to classrooms, they had to flip the normal course and take classrooms to students, beyond boundaries.


The Future is Here: Artificial Intelligence & What it Means For Our Kids

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As you may have noticed, we've been researching artificial intelligence (AI) and its economic and educational implications. From healthcare to transportation, we believe it is incredibly important for young people and adults to be learning about AI, and we are writing more about it to equip teachers and parents with information to help young people ask good questions about the implications of AI on their lives and livelihoods. To get the scoop, I sat Tom Vander Ark down for a podcast interview on AI. You'll also hear from Gerald Huff, a senior Silicon Valley software engineer, who shares his thoughts on AI and what it means for students and the transportation industry. Listen to the podcast, read excerpts from the interview below and be sure follow the campaign at #AskAboutAI.