HybridHlea KAMI NAMED ‘MOST INFLUENTIAL’ FOR 2022
Digital learning platform Kami has made Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, under the ‘Leaders’ category, along with the likes of Spotify, Reddit and Airbnb. The prestigious list highlights businesses that have made a significant impact, based on relevance, ambition and innovation. It’s global recognition for the Auckland based start-up that has more than 30 million users in 180 countries. More at time.com/collection/time100-companies-2022/
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES PRACTICE SETS In an effort to help teachers create personalised learning paths for their students, Google is set to launch Practice Sets as a new feature in Google Classroom. The new tool will help automate grading, identify concepts that need review, and provide students with built-in hints and resources to support them as they work. “We spoke with educators around the world to see how we could help them become more effective in the classroom,” said Google for Education’s Daniel Kiecza. “Time and again, they said they wanted to spend less time on tedious tasks like grading, and more time focused on their students’ unique needs. So, we’re announcing this upcoming feature to help them do just that. Practice Sets will give teachers the time and tools to better support their students — from more interactive lessons to faster and more personal feedback. “We’re actively testing Practice Sets with some schools in anticipation of our beta launch in the coming months.”
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AT&T JOINS WARNERMEDIA TO LAUNCH THE ACHIEVERY
The Achievery is a free digital learning platform featuring content from popular WarnerMedia films, TV shows and animated series. Videos are paired with lessons and learning activities that students aim to engage with wherever they learn – at home, in the community and in the classroom. Some examples of this are clips from the Wonder Woman film paired with reading and writing lessons; Aquaman film clips integrated with ‘lessons teaching responsible decision-making’; and animated clips from the Craig of the Creek series on Cartoon Network used in social awareness and language lessons. Teachers, students (13+) and parents can create accounts. Lesson plans and activities can be searched by subject, grade, academic standards, or media type. More at theachievery.com
COACH ADDED TO READING TOOL Following last year’s release of Reading Progress, Microsoft is introducing Reading Coach, which builds on the former by identifying the five words each student struggled with the most and supporting them to practise independently. “Educators using Reading Progress seem the most surprised to see how it motivates their students to try multiple times and work independently to increase their scores – they are invested in their progress as readers,” said Microsoft Education’s Mike Tholfsen. “To expand on that enthusiasm, we’ve been hard at work creating Reading Coach! It can be enabled and customised by the educator, who sets up the Reading Coach when a Reading Progress assignment in Teams is created.”
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