Roundtable: The Inspiration Driving Women in K–12 IT Roles

Team LOKGEN April 21, 2022

Working in today’s educational landscape presents many challenges. For women in educational technology roles, these can be magnified by a lack of representation. Across all industries, women hold only 26 percent of computing-related jobs, according to an article by Built In. The disparity is worse for women of minority groups, with 3 percent, 6 percent and 2 percent of computing-related jobs held by Black, Asian and Hispanic women, respectively.
Despite the challenges, women in K–12 IT are working to make changes in their districts and encouraging others to help them expand their…

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Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney’s other units (Sarah Krouse/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney’s other units — Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units

November 24, 2022

The Benefits of Integrating Technology into Today’s K–12 Classrooms

Technology integration is no longer about whether tech belongs in classrooms. In today’s education landscape, it pertains to how technology is chosen and used for learning.
Schools have received waves of government funding for educational technology. Administrators and IT leadership still have until September 2022 and September 2023 to obligate ESSER I and ESSER II funds, respectively. To get the best return on investment with this funding, districts must ensure technology integration is done effectively.
Students benefit from technology integration when it is done well. It can lead to a more…

September 16, 2022

Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles — Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

November 4, 2022

AWS announces a new Graviton3E chip for high-performance computing tasks like weather forecasting and gene sequencing, competing with Intel, Nvidia, and others (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
AWS announces a new Graviton3E chip for high-performance computing tasks like weather forecasting and gene sequencing, competing with Intel, Nvidia, and others — Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing …

November 29, 2022

Cambodia’s online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting “cyber slave” workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure (Rest of World)

Rest of World:
Cambodia’s online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting “cyber slave” workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure — Casual trafficking, calls to parents, misleading ads: even with global pressure, recruitment is rife. — • BAVET, CAMBODIA

November 12, 2022

Canalys, IDC, and Gartner global Q3 2022 PC shipment estimates have a big discrepancy for Apple: up 1.7% YoY, up 40.2% YoY, and down 15.6% YoY, respectively (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Canalys, IDC, and Gartner global Q3 2022 PC shipment estimates have a big discrepancy for Apple: up 1.7% YoY, up 40.2% YoY, and down 15.6% YoY, respectively — PC shipments plunged across the world in the third quarter with overall sales falling 18%, according to numbers compiled by Canalys.

October 11, 2022

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