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Insights and Opinions: How Gameification Is Accelerating Business and Education

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For our Insights and Opinions section today, we feature author and technology forecaster Daniel Burrus , who talks about gamefication, and what it means for both business and education. Read the rest of Daniel's article, Gameification: A Rapidly Growing Hard Trend That Will Accelerate Learning For Both Business and Education.

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WeWork Gets Smart With Education for Adults and Kids

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And now, they’ve decided to pay it forward with a few education initiatives that could really make a difference. The coworking company has announced two meaningful education initiatives that could help people get a leg up in the tech community. Kids don’t get to enjoy all the educational fun at WeWork though.

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Apple is opening a store in downtown LA’s nearly 100-year-old Tower Theatre

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Interestingly, an LA Times article back in 2018 noted that the space, “may also serve as a declaration that Apple intends to compete as a major Hollywood content creator.” The store has been in the works for a number of years, owing in part to having to work with the city to restore a space that had been declared a landmark.

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Xconomy Announces Channel Focused on the Future of Education

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But underlying all that, in a sense, is education. We have long run stories about STEM education, educational technology, and more—and even put out a special Xconomist report on the future of education. Now we are bringing that coverage even more front and center with the launch of a national Education channel.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

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That was not only because traditional learning environments needed to go virtual, but also because the pandemic led so many — willingly or by force — to rethink what they were doing with their lives, and online education was one key route for doing something about it, at a time when little else could be done.

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United Lauch Alliance Sends NASA/NOAA Payload Into Space

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the launch also carried five CubeSats carrying a number of space research and education projects. NASA is the last user of the Delta II rocket, which it decided to phase out back in 2007 due to rising launch costs when the US military switched over to the Delta 4; articles place the cost of a Delta II launch at over $130M.

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Local Corporation Targets HVAC Market

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The new site offers educational articles and other information aboud HVAC services, and will generate leads for local businesses. Online local business advertising firm Local Corporation announced this morning that it has launched a new, industry-specific website focused on the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) market.

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