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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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Common Cyber Threats Facing Educators Every profession has had its fair share of internet-based troubles. This could expose confidential student data, compromise work communications, and even jeopardize the safety of those around you. But what scams and crimes are teachers most likely to encounter?

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Students Create a Pop-Up Makerspace at a Domestic Violence Shelter

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We’ve seen students build drones, create video games and use CAD software to design items that were more complex than anything they were doing with our curriculum at the time, and the process was even more impressive than the product. Since opening the space, we’ve seen some remarkable independent projects develop.

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When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse

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The teachers, meanwhile, get that treasured trifecta of decent pay ($14 to $26 per hour), flexible scheduling, and a premade curriculum. It added, though, that instructors who flag inappropriate behavior will not receive any follow-up information from the company, for student confidentiality reasons. “We

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How Classroom Technology Has Changed the Parent-Teacher Relationship

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So if there is a newsletter, try to make it more meaningful and have action items for the family — practical tips for families that they could do something at home — rather than just here's the curriculum, because I can see that getting lost in an inbox. And that's not fair because we never really know what's going on in someone's house.