Les Moonves, chairman, president and CEO of CBS Corp., told an audience at the Deutsche Bank 2017 Media & Telecom Conference that TV networks will face off against digital properties like Facebook and Google in the next bidding battle for the rights to the NFL, according to Ad Age. The NFL's current deals are in place through 2022.
A CBS news clip debating over year-round schooling. The news reporter speaks with representatives that are both for and against year-round schooling in Raleigh, NC where overcrowding is a huge problem. Both representatives gives their views and opinions on the topic.
If you are fearful of Facebook and MySpace then you need to create an Edmodo account. Edmodo was designed specifically for educational purposes. You must be a teacher, student, or parent to gain access. It allows you all the amenities of those other social networking sites but with a lot more security/privacy.
Yes, it is free and you can manage student accounts. It is only open to those you invite in and only educators may obtain an account. You may monitor and moderate all conversations, administer quizes, embed media, etc. The groups feature is very effective and you may grant access to your group to other classes. We just had 700+ students interacting in a global collaboration project, Digiteen.
Students do not need an email address to use Edmodo, so under 13 is OK for CIPA. It looks much like Facebook, so kids love it and parents need some education on it as they fear it at first. Parents can get monitoring access so they may monitor their child's activity. It is a great tool to show parents how social media is used in education.
According to research cited in the book, high-school seniors who worked 20 hours per week had annual earnings as young adults that were 25 to 30 percent higher than those seniors who didn't work.
Increased chance of being hired
More hours of work over the year
Higher hourly or annual earnings
Increased benefits offerings, such as health insurance
Greater employment stability
Better upward mobility
Increased chances of employer-supported training
four key issues that need to be addressed in high school to help set students up for career success.
"The problem for many students, and even parents, is that they fail to think of high-school education as an investment good," according to the book "College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs."
Pay levels can also vary based on how much higher learning is obtained. As the book explains, graduates of two-year degree programs earn 22 percent more per year than high-school graduates with no degree. Bachelor's degree holders earn about 66 percent more per year than their high-school graduate counterparts.
Fascinating video highlighting student robotics (FIRST) and the connection to rapidly advancing uses in the real world, especially military. 20,000 robots are used in Iraq today, and only a handful were in use in 2003 when the conflict began!