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Infographic Design Ideas profile - Arnab Dey
12/28/22
Are you a creative person with a big idea for an infographic?
Well, you need to make it that much more attractive to viewers. People’s attention spans are shorter than ever, so you must make your infographic stand out if you want people to notice it. A visually appealing infographic wil -
LeBron James Scoring Tracker
12/24/22
One of the NBA’s most hallowed records is likely to fall this season as LeBron James nears the all-time points record set by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points). NBA.com continues to track LeBron’s chase for the record.
Keep track of LeBron James' chase for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar� -
France Desperately Needs Workers, but the Fixes Could Anger Left and Right Liz Alderman By Liz Alderman
12/23/22
Legalization of undocumented workers and pared-down unemployment benefits are part of the government’s plan to fill hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The sign on the window of Red Rhino, a popular barbecue restaurant in central Paris, has been up for a month: “Closed until further notice -
Rising Production Cost – and Rising Resentment By Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M. Iler
12/22/22
The reasons why higher ed costs so much to produce also explain why historical esteem for higher education has shifted to resentment, write Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M. Iler.
Understanding the rising cost of producing higher education starts with the fact that the wealthiest, most elite -
How Common App helps improve access and equity on college campuses by Common App
12/21/22
Removing barriers and increasing outreach spark growth at Minority-Serving Institutions
Diversity happens naturally at Hawai’i Pacific University (HPU). The private, four-year university in Honolulu reflects its state’s values: embracing a student body that identifies as 67% non-white -
Evolution of iOS: A Look at Apple’s Mobile Operating System Over the Years
12/20/22
When iOS first launched in 2007, it was a game-changer for the mobile world. It made smartphones more user-friendly and added features that we now take for granted, like apps and a touch-based interface. Over the past 14 years, iOS has evolved significantly. With each new release, Apple has added ne -
Actions and Hopes of the Sustainability-Focused Student by Melissa Ezarik
12/20/22
Students demonstrate interest in taking initiative on environmental issues and expect their colleges will do the same—but could use more knowledge on what matters most.
While campus sustainability efforts have steadily grown over recent decades, COVID caused a pause at many institutions -
The Impact Of EdTech In 2022 And Beyond
12/20/22
Edtech spending is likely to double in the next five years to about $404 billion.
Edtech, short for education technology, is an approach that taps into technology to increase the performance and outcomes of educating students. SaaS startups in particular are well placed to participate in -
How Can we Bring Many More Students to Math, Data, and Statistical Literacy? by Steven Mintz
12/19/22
How to better motivate students and prepare more students for success in STEM fields.
Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot butt -
Mass layoffs, gloomy job market making college grads nervous by Mary Lee
12/18/22
Reference: https://www.cbsnews.com/ Student Share By: Kennedy D. University of Delaware https://udel.edu
With big tech company layoffs in the Bay Area, there's a lot more competition for available job openings right now.
But for college students looking to enter the work -
On Seeing Former Colleagues by Matt Reed
12/18/22
Setting a workplace climate as a leadership skill.
I recently got to reunite with some former colleagues all at once. They were a great group when we worked together, but I hadn’t seen them (and vice versa) in a while.
We caught up for probably about 45 minutes, of which at l -
Which Universities Spent the Most Money on Research Last Year? By Audrey Williams June
12/17/22
Academic institutions spent $89.9 billion on research and development in the 2021 fiscal year, up 4 percent from the year before.
Nearly all of the $3.4-billion increase in research spending was funded by the federal government, according to a report on the National Science Foundation’s -
Integrated facilities management offers universities ways to save, build and remain competitive
12/16/22
Eric Conrad has worked in facilities and operations management for 30 years, including stints at two of the nation's largest universities. Today he is Executive Vice President for JLL’s Education Division, and is currently working with a prestigious college that is trying to update facilities -
From virtual reality to careers: How Indiana’s Boys & Girls Clubs use VR for workforce development By MJ Slaby
12/08/22
Alexis Fernung was ready to taxi the airplane from the runway to the hangar. Following the guidance of the signalman and staying in the lines on the runway, she did her best to move the airplane.
“I got this,” she said as the plane started moving.
Just a few minutes earlier -
Half of NYC students are behind in reading. Hundreds of CUNY tutors aim to change that. By Alex Zimmerman
12/08/22
Just after the school day winds down, a group of three students at Brooklyn’s P.S. 40 sit in a semicircle and crack open “Looking for Lunch,” an illustrated book with large print. With help from a tutor, they begin reading aloud in unison, running their fingers along words like “hungry” an -
The Cryptocurrency Collapse Spells Trouble For Teacher Pensions. Here’s How By Mark Lieberman
12/08/22
Several public pension funds that serve thousands of teachers stand to lose tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars because of investments in the collapsing cryptocurrency company FTX.
FTX, a company based in the Bahamas that provides a platform for users to exchange digital currency -
What a Forgotten Instructional Fad From the ‘60s Reveals About Teaching By Jeffrey R. Young
12/08/22
Back in the 1960s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. It was called PSI, or the Personalized System of Instruction.
These days the practice is largely forgotten, but it might bring a sense of déjà vu to proponents of personalized online learning systems. PSI -
How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education By Jeffrey R. Young
12/08/22
In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Simon argued that you would describe the process as “outrageous. -
Researcher Behind ‘10,000-Hour Rule’ Says Good Teaching Matters, Not Just Practice By Jeffrey R. Young
12/08/22
You’ve probably heard of the 10,000 hour rule, which was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell’s blockbuster book “Outliers.” As Gladwell tells it, the rule goes like this: it takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skills and materials, like playing the violin or ge -
How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures By Sam Peterson
12/08/22
Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist at UC Irvine. She’s been sharing her observations with EdSurge readers for nearly a decade now, reflecting on young people’s interest-driven and playful engagements as they relate to education.
If you can embed skill develop -
Does Solving Inequality in Education Mean Embracing ‘Birth Equity’? By Daniel Mollenkamp
12/07/22
Sanaa Sharrieff, a mother based in one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Guilford County, is certain that where her son was born limited his education.
Her son, Kendrick, an 8-year-old in third grade, was diagnosed with autism last year. But she says she’s had her suspicio -
5 EdTech Challenges Startups Are Facing by adamfard.com
12/06/22
If technology has benefited any sector the most, it’s definitely the education sector.
From the introduction of content management platforms to the launch of interactivity apps and all the action in between, EdTech startups are gaining wide popularity and rightly so, because they have m -
Innovation Ecosystems and Business Composability in a Post-Pandemic, War-Hit Decade By Arman Kamran
12/05/22
Just as we thought the inflationary recovery of a post-pandemic world is going to be the headline for the rest of this decade, a war imposed on Europe pushed the rising commodity – and consumer prices – into a newly accelerated growth, and put the global energy market into a costly and long cris -
CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
12/05/22
Games have long been a proving ground for new AI advancements — from Deep Blue’s victory over chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, to AlphaGo’s mastery of Go, to Pluribus out-bluffing the best humans in poker. But truly useful, versatile agents will need to go beyond just moving pieces on a board -
Used thin client PCs are an unsexy, readily available Raspberry Pi alternative by KEVIN PURDY
12/05/22
"Raspberry Pi boards are hard to get, probably also next year," says Andreas Spiess, single-board enthusiast and YouTuber, in his distinctive Swiss accent. He's not wrong. Spiess says he and his fellow Pi devotees need "a strategy to survive" without new boards, so he sugges -
Tesla finally delivers first electric Semi to Pepsi after years of delay by ASHLEY BELANGER
12/05/22
Yesterday, Elon Musk appeared at his first Tesla unveiling since he took the helm at Twitter. At a Tesla plant in Nevada, the billionaire announced that after five long years, Tesla’s first heavy-duty Semi had been delivered to PepsiCo.
The Semi, Tesla announced, would go into productio -
Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data by CHRISTIAN JORDAN HOWELL AND DAVID MAIMON
12/05/22
It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of producers, wholesalers, and consumers. But this supply chain involves -
OpenAI invites everyone to test new AI-powered chatbot—with amusing results by BENJ EDWARDS
12/04/22
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chat interface for its GPT-3 family of large language models. It's currently free to use with an OpenAI account during a testing phase. Unlike the GPT-3 model found in OpenAI's Playground and API, ChatGPT provides a user-friendly -
Proton Calendar rounds out security-focused Big Tech alternative on iOS by KEVIN PURDY
12/03/22
Proton Calendar, which claims to be the "world's only" calendar using end-to-end encryption and cryptographic verification, has arrived on iOS, giving those seeking a more secure work suite an alternative to Google, Apple, and the like.
Proton Calendar is pitched as offerin -
amsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware by RON AMADEO
12/03/22
A developer's cryptographic signing key is one of the major linchpins of Android security. Any time Android updates an app, the signing key of the old app on your phone needs to match the key of the update you're installing. The matching keys ensure the update actually comes from the compa -
The Key to Student Engagement by Robin Winder and Jason Odom
12/02/22
Over the past few years, most of the conversation about online education has focused on an all-or-nothing approach, where online learning and in-person instruction are seen as independent from each other. However, they do not need to be mutually exclusive.
In fact, according to recent fin -
Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data by DAN GOODIN
12/02/22
Hive Social, a social media platform that has seen meteoric growth since Elon Musk took over Twitter, abruptly shut down its service on Wednesday after a security advisory warned the site was riddled with vulnerabilities that exposed all data stored in user accounts.
“The issues we repo -
U.S.-PAKISTAN EFFORT TO ELEVATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR By U.S. Mission Pakistan
12/01/22
United States Ambassador Donald Blome joined officials from the University of Utah and the Federal Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives, Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, to inaugurate the International Summit on Higher Education and Workforce Development today.
The summit was organiz -
Radio Check: 5 Tactics for Loud and Clear Communication from K-12 Leaders by Erin Werra
12/01/22
Advancer Twelve, this is Wordsmith One. How copy? Over.
You’ve heard the lingo—it’s all over action movies and procedural dramas. But have you ever stopped to think about why “radio talk” is used?
Besides the obvious—it sounds cool, duh—radio talk is actually a r -
Remote Learning, the Metaverse and the Future of Education by Aimee Rullo
12/01/22
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions at all levels were forced to shut their doors and shift their focus to remote learning. But what began as a response to a crisis has become a preferred option for many students. According to BestColleges’ Online Education Trends -
Level Up Your Career By Becoming a Brand Ambassador
12/01/22
Becoming a Brand Ambassador for a well-known company can have many benefits beyond any financial incentives associated with the position. The opportunity to grow your personal brand is significant. Brand Ambassadors stand to gain valuable skills and experience that they may not be getting in their d -
How Chinese netizens swamped China’s Internet controls by JENNIFER CONRAD
12/01/22
A week ago, demonstrators took to the streets of the northwestern city of Urumqi to protest China’s strict zero-COVID policy. That night, a much bigger wave of protest crested on Chinese social media, most notably on the super app WeChat. Users shared videos of the demonstrators and songs like “
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