Category: Technology

Teaching All Students Code

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: 2 minutesGetting educators bought into the importance of future-ready skills for their students is a no-brainer. They already know it’s important to make sure their students are equipped with STEM skills that benefit them now and in the future, but making the jump to how to do so in their classrooms with the resources they have on hand is much easier said than done. The Youth Coding League set out to bulldoze those obstacles to make coding skills for middle and junior high students attainable for teachers and schools. This extracurricular program empowers…

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Protecting Women while they Travel

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUrSafe will provide its personal safety app to Solo Female Travelers’ nearly 90,000 members around the world in a deal announced today by UrSafe CEO Anthony Oyogoa, M.D and Solo Female Travelers co-founders Meg Jerrard and Mar Pages. Interest in solo female travel is rising, and search volumes for the term grew six-fold in the four years before the start of the pandemic, but despite the growing trend, women still face many challenges and stereotypes when planning to travel on their own. Female-identifying individuals encounter additional challenges. “Our survey revealed that safety is the…

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Saving Money with HVAC Maintenance

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: 2 minutesPetri Plumbing & Heating, Inc., a family-owned home service company serving Brooklyn and Manhattan for more than 100 years, urges homeowners to service their HVAC system in anticipation of summer weather. After months of sitting idle, HVAC systems can strain to keep up with higher temperatures as summer arrives. Some proactive maintenance can go a long way toward keeping them running efficiently. “Nobody wants to pay sky-high cooling bills,” said Michael Petri, owner of Petri Plumbing & Heating. “Keeping your AC running at top efficiency is easy with a little annual…

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COVID has Changed the Way We Mourn

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a result of the global pandemic, consumers have experienced new ways of mourning the loss of their friends and family, and that has permanently changed the way they mourn, according to The Foresight Companies 2021 Funeral and Cemetery Consumer Behavior Study. Nearly 1/3 (32%) of survey respondents say their attitudes have changed as a result of new experiences, including using new technologies and adopting non-traditional approaches to celebrating. The global pandemic has necessitated the adoption of new technologies and behaviors to the highly traditional funeral and cemetery business, and the…

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Exploring Post-COVID Learning Strategies

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: 2 minutesNWEA, a not-for-profit research and assessment provider, recently announced the launch of its new professional learning podcast, The Continuing Educator. The podcast series, geared toward educational leaders and teachers, will discuss current challenges impacting classrooms, schools, and systems, and explore strategies to help educators leverage this unique time of transition to revisit, reform, and design a new future for American education. The podcast is hosted by Jacob Bruno, head of the Professional Learning team at NWEA. The first season, moderated by NWEA’s Lindsay Prendergast, Professional Learning Consultant, and Erin Beard, D.Ed., Content Designer, will…

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Take a Time Out from Parenting

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJo Frost, Global Parenting Expert, has announced the launch of her ‘Take A Time Out’  virtual event series. These live events will feature two dates a month for the next nine months. The moderated series will feature Jo Frost discussing a range of family matters and will give attendees the opportunity to ask Frost personal questions live. Attendees will gain more confidence and peace during this transitional year by leaving with the how-to knowledge that Frost provides through her three decades of expertise and wisdom. Each session will include a moderated discussion…

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Risks and Benefits of the COVID Passport

Maryssa Gordon

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMillions across the world are eagerly awaiting future travel as COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up and cases trend down. Even though ‘vaxications’ are on the rise, traveling in our current world is not going to be as easy as it once was pre-pandemic. Additional travel to-do’s will be added to the lists of anyone who wants to travel to America like evidence that they have tested negative for COVID-19 and with the emergence of digital vaccine passports. With over 400 million vaccinated against the virus worldwide, print-outs and photos of vaccination records are easily faked or…

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STEM Students Get to Question Astronauts

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudents from across the country will have an opportunity this week to ask questions of NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 12:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 7, on NASA Television and the agency’s website. NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Kate Rubins will answer prerecorded questions from students engaged in Million Girls Moonshot, an after-school program launched by the STEM Next Opportunity Fund and aimed at inspiring underrepresented STEM students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. The movement aims to engage 1 million school-age girls nationwide over the…

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Online Sales are Exploding

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSalesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, today released its Cyber Week insights, analyzing the global shopping behavior of more than one billion global shoppers on the Salesforce Customer 360 platform. Overall, global online sales hit a new record with $270 billion, up 36 percent compared to 2019. With new online shopping behaviors driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and reduced store holiday hours and traffic, consumers flocked online over Cyber Week and pushed digital sales to new heights. Top Salesforce 2020 Holiday Shopping Insights Digital commerce sets new records: Total…

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A Serious Look at Skills Challenges Facing the IT Industry

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBased on responses from over 9,500 IT professionals across 159 countries, the Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report is the largest of its kind, used by tech professionals, industry-experts and governments to inform career, resource and policy decisions. “78% of IT decision-makers globally face critical skills gaps and struggle to find qualified employees.” ~Todd Johnstone Tweet this 78% of global IT decision-makers face critical skills gaps Skills gaps can cost upwards of $29,000 per employee New certifications can boost pay by $12,000 40% of tech professionals are pursuing new certifications in the…

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