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One US high school student’s red ‘Make America Great Again’ hat triggered his teacher into calling the kid an “a**hole” and evacuating the classroom. In a video filmed by his classmate, the kid’s teacher gives him a telling off for the hat, saying that other students are “provoked by the presence” of it. [embedded content] […]
Associated Press/Ted S. Warren A Pennsylvania school district equipped each classroom with rocks in case of active shooters. The superintendent said it’s meant to be a “last-ditch response to an armed intruder.” Schools have been floating various school-safety measures in the wake of last month’s high-school shooting in Florida. As school districts across the country […]
Poor old Paddington is being linked to sex. Again. The cuddly bear from Peru is not usually associated with X-rated shenanigans, but already caused major uproar when the original movie was released in 2016 and given a higher rating than expected due to “mild sex references.” This time the references are not so mild after […]
Lenovo will soon release its VR Classroom setup, which will let teachers guide their students through virtual field trips. Each kit comes with the first standalone Daydream VR headset, Lenovo’s Mirage Solo with Daydream, which arrives preloaded with over 700 Google Expeditions VR field trips as well as three exclusive Jane Goodall “Wild Immersion” videos. […]
Elementary school teachers in Waterloo, Ontario are resorting to wearing Kevlar vests to protect themselves from their students. The unusual move is in response to rising classroom violence from pupils and not based on a fear of being shot. Teachers are donning protective gear made from Kevlar, a material used in body armour, which includes […]
Published time: 7 Nov, 2017 03:24 Edited time: 7 Nov, 2017 03:26 At least two young children have been killed and scores injured after a 52-year-old woman crashed her Toyota Kluger into a primary school in southwest Sydney. Two eight-year-old boys were rushed to a hospital in critical condition but died from cardiac arrest after […]
AP Photo/Michael Sohn “How will America help fix this?” During our time in the Obama administration, this was a common refrain, one we heard over and over from our foreign counterparts about global problems. They saw the United States as the leader on a broad range of issues — from combating terrorism to combating climate […]
Whether you’re a natural-born educator or a learner with a thirst for knowledge, Google wants you to know that its Classroom software is now open to one and all. A month after the web giant opened the platform to learners with nothing more than a Google account, the company said on Thursday it’s extending the […]
Beatriz Valenzuela via Twitter An apparent murder-suicide shooting at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California, also killed an 8 year-old boy, multiple outlets report. Initially one female teacher and a male suspect were found dead, and two students had been airlifted to a local hospital in critical condition, before one of the students succumbed to his […]
The folks over at HTC Vive have been talking up the potential of VR in education since day one, and this year, they’re hoping to make a bigger push into this space by focusing on multi-user scenarios. At this week’s Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, the company announced the Vive Group Edition bundle for China, […]
