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Beyond Digital Literacy: How EdTech Fosters Children’s Social-Emotional Development

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A child’s emotional well-being and self-confidence is essential to social and intellectual development. Employers and investors have a strong interest in funding programs that embed SEL into games, learning systems and apps that have a central focus on academic content, such as math or writing, rather than SEL alone.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

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What we think the purpose of a university is, and this will get to why I'm doing this project now, is to give human beings the ability to better understand themselves and the world. So to develop what we commonly think of as critical thinking or critical capacities. I think you gotta separate those things.

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