Tech News Weekly 128: Teaching Students Through YouTube




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Summary: <p>Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual events</p><ul> <li>Kurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.</li> <li>Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.</li> <li>Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.</li> <li>The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mikah-sargent">Mikah Sargent</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/kurtwagner8" target="_blank">Kurt Wagner</a> and <a href="http://sophielucidojohnson.com" target="_blank">Sophie Lucido Johnson</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether">ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether</a></li> <li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li> </ul>