Good morning--
As you know, EdTech is reimagining what it means to be a student in the 21st century. From online learning tools to massive peer-to-peer education services, education is the latest arena where technology has led to a democratization of information.
At the forefront of this trend is Brainly, the largest peer-to-peer learning tool in the world. With over 150 million unique users in 35 countries, Brainly allows students to ask questions of their peers, of subject matter experts, and of professional educators and parents, in order to improve education outcomes and help students overcome scholastic hurdles.
But how will education tech continue to revolutionize global education? Brainly co-founder and education and technology visionary, CEO Michal Borkowski has some predictions on the future of education ideas and is available for interviews.
Here are just a few ways Borkowski sees technology reshaping education in the years to come.
1. SOCIAL LEARNING FINDS ITS DIGITAL MOMENTUM
Most learning is social, but it hasn't been global until now. Peer-to-peer education tools, online courses, and virtual study groups will proliferate through crowd learning, making digital social learning bigger, more diverse, more useful, and ultimately more effective.
2. THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION WILL BE PERSONALIZED
Studies have shown that personalized education provides better student outcomes. With artificial intelligence and machine learning entering the education space, EdTech will be at the vanguard of the personalization trend with platforms like Brainly being able to recognize problem areas for students and preemptively offer helpful solutions.
3. STREAMLINED LEARNING AND QUALITY OVER QUANTITY
When it comes to their studies, students (and parents) want accurate information that comes from reliable sources. It’s not always ideal to look through multiple sources and try to determine the authenticity for yourself. EdTech will have an increasing responsibility to deliver streamlined platform solutions where people can provide and ask for information that is checked for accuracy and consistency.
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SUB-RADIO
PREMIERES HEART-WARMING
MUSIC VIDEO FOR "DREAMCATCHER"
EXCLUSIVELY WITH VANYALAND
"Oozing with sentimentality" - Vanyaland
UPCOMING EP DOG YEARS
DUE OUT JULY 19
July 8, 2019 - Washington, D.C. - The absolutely captivating Indie Pop group Sub-Radio have teamed up with Vanyaland to premiere the music video for "Dreamcatcher" today. Paired with the effervescent quality of the recently released single, the video perfectly illustrates that moment of "What If" when you first see that person that could forever change your life. Fans can watch the video today at https://vanyaland.com/2019/07/08/sub-radio-get-right-up-in-your-feelings-with-dreamcatcher/.
"We've almost never written a straightforward 'love song,' and almost looked at it like a challenge." shares Adam Bradley (Vocals) on the track. "Dreamcatcher" is available to stream today at spoti.fi/2RFzQDe and joins previously released single "Room For You" from the band's forthcoming EP, Dog Years, due out July 19th. Produced by Dylan Bauld (Flor, Halsey, LIGHTS) and mixed by Andrew Maury (Shawn Mendes, COIN, Post Malone), Dog Years shows Sub-Radio fully embracing different styles, textures and energies throughout 5 cohesive tracks.
Dog Years Track Listing
1. Better Than That
2. Room For You
3. Dreamcatcher
4. Million And One
5. Instincts
Sub-Radio is on the road for the "Know You Better" US Tour. The band is traveling across the US before wrapping up on July 26th for a special show in the band's hometown of Washington, D.C. A full list of tour dates are below, but please stay tuned to Sub-Radio's social media accounts for more details and ticket information.
Upcoming US Tour Dates
July 8 - Des Moines, IA - Leftys
July 12 - Nashville, TN - Back Corner
July 13 - Louisville, KY - Third Street Dive
July 14 - Cincinnati, OH - Northside Tavern
July 15 - PJ's Lager House - Detroit
July 16 - Syracuse, NY - Lost Horizon
July 18 - New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2
July 26 - Washington, D.C.
Sub-Radio is Adam Bradley (vocals), Matt Prodanovich (guitar, vocals), Michael Pereira (drums), John Fengya (keys, guitar, vocals), Barry Siford (bass) and Kyle Cochran (guitar, keys).
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Charity Bomb & Strange Entertainment in Partnership with Plex Announce:
Strange 80s - A Benefit for Mental Health Rockumentary
Streaming Now: http://bit.ly/S80s2PLEX
*FREE with Registration*
Featuring:
David Hasselhoff, Deryck Whibley, Frank Zummo, Adrian Young,
Chris Kirkpatrick, Scott Shriner, Tyler Bates, Aimee Allen, Jaret
Reddick, The Regrettes, Nik Frost, Dave Kushner & more!
Watch The Official Trailer Here: http://bit.ly/2J3ifST
"I can't wait to get Tye and OTTO back on stage at the next Charity Bomb event. They run a
professional outfit and work their asses off for charity!"
- Rob Trujillo, Metallica
"Charity Bomb puts on the coolest shows, including Strange 80s which was the first show my band
Calpurnia ever played. They are genuinely awesome people."
- Finn Wolfhard, Actor, 'Stranger Things' and 'IT'
"The people at Charity Bomb work their asses off for no other reason than to help others. It's rare to
come across such honesty and focus in this business and working with Charity Bomb is a pleasure."
- Scott Ian, Anthrax
"Charity Bomb bring you into the creative process and make you feel like a kid again. You have to pinch
yourself when the show and the fun is over and a check shows up for $20,000"
- Talinda Bennington, 320 Changes Direction
Los Angeles, CA - July 8, 2019 - Charity Bomb & Strange Entertainment in partnership with Plex are proud to announce Strange 80's - A Benefit for Mental Health. This star-studded rockumentary features performances and interviews with Corey Taylor from Slipknot / Stone Sour, Noodles from The Offspring, Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC, Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal, John 5 from Rob Zombie, Frank Zummo from Sum41 and many more. Now available exclusively via Plex, the film features live footage from the last three Strange 80s shows, as well as interviews with artists about their personal experiences with mental health issues. Fans can register via Plex for free and stream the documentary now: http://bit.ly/S80s2PLEX.
Speaking to the documentary, CEO & Founder of Charity Bomb Matthew Leone explains, "Our flagship documentary personifies the entirety of Charity Bomb and the beautiful individual parts that compose it. It's powerful, entertaining, poignant and honest, which also happen to define what we wanted our organization to be from the genesis."
Last month, Charity Bomb presented Strange 80s 3D, the third annual Strange 80s benefit concert at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Donations from previous Strange 80s concerts have benefitted "320 Changes Directions", Talinda Bennington's mental health initiative, serving those who suffer from mental health, depression and addiction issues. Donations can be made to Take My Hand - (320 Changes Direction) Mental Health Campaign - here: bit.ly/CBTakeMyHand Donors who text the code "TAKEMYHAND" to 44-321 will see the campaign page as well. Charity Bomb has raised over $20,000 in donations for 320 Changes Directions.
Featured talent in the documentary includes David Hasselhoff, Scott Shriner, Tyler Bates, Aimee Allen, Kevn Bivona, John Lawry, Charlie Benante, Scott Ian, Adrian Young, Mason Young, Corey Taylor, Deryck Whibley, Frank Zummo, Jaret Reddick, Dan Konopka, Noodles, Marko DeSantis, Chris Kirkpatrick, The Regrettes, Nik Frost, Dave Kushner, Pearl Aday, Jenny Vee, Jessie Hughes, Tye Trujillo, Kristopher Roe, Chelsea Talmadge, Stacy Dee, Tom Payne, Melatonin, Bleach, Black Veil Brides, John Ceravolo, Ali Spagnola, Brittany Furlan, Candace Lowry, Savannah Outen, Nikki Limo, Andy Lalwani, Peng Peng Lee, Dennis Haskins, and Matt Pinfield.
With over 8M active users (20M registered), PLEX is the world's highest-rated streaming media service.
Scott Olechowski, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Plex states, "Plex's success as a digital entertainment platform is largely due to our community. This is also why charity is one of our most sacred core values, allowing us to give back to the community we serve." He continues, "With mental health being such a prevalent issue these days, we wanted to team up with an organization on the cutting edge of servicing that community, which is Charity Bomb. They throw these massive benefit shows with huge rock-stars playing 80's covers all over the world. For us, it was a no brainer."
For more information, please visit: www.charitybomb.org.
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ABOUT CHARITY BOMB
Charity Bomb provides entertainment with a purpose. Our mission is: to identify the challenges of overlooked or under-serviced constituencies, enlist the most effective and honest specialists in that field, and form partnerships to design and execute an immediate, intermediate and long-term plan for resolving a particular issue or challenge.
Charity Bomb earns our donations. This is achieved by creating custom experiential auctions and producing highly conceptualized benefit events involving celebrity talent. Charity Bomb then deploys the funds generated to our thoroughly vetted partnering organization.
Their purpose is to connect the needs of our constituents to their respective resources, while we systematically search to unveil a permanent antidote to a cause.
Charity Bomb is a creative organization, tethered to the virtues of transparency and altruism. Launched in 2018, Charity Bomb was founded by three, life-long friends who share the virtues of fatherhood, philanthropy, musicianship, music lovers, music industry professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and Fear Factor champions. Our motivation is to help.
ABOUT STRANGE ENTERTAINMENT
Welcome to the Wonderful World of STRANGE Entertainment! The benefit concert arm of Charity Bomb Inc, Strange Entertainment is a live music production company that specializes in creating unique, fundraiser events for various mental health organizations. Every performance features a rotating cast of marquis rock stars and entertainers forming supergroups to perform short sets of covers, that are inline with the event's theme. *see Strange 80s, Strange 90s, Strange 90s Country. Since the debut of Strange 80s in 2017, Strange Ent. has raised over $200,000 for our partnering organizations.
Musicians: 5 Seconds of Summer, Eagles of Death Metal, Alice in Chains, Deap Vally, Anberlin, Enter Shikari, Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, Ataris, Falling in Reverse, Black Veil Brides, Filter, Bowling for Soup, Bush, No Doubt, Flaming Lips, Go Gos, Goldfinger Good Cop Bad Cop, Katy Perry, Korn, The Interruptors, Bones UK, Chvrches, Weezer, Janes Addiction, The Offspring, Judas Priest, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, The Regrettes, Gavin Rossdale, Bush, Stephan Perkins, Jane's Addiction, Marilyn Manson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Otto, Nsync, Ok Go!, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Aday, Slayer, Slipknot, Steel Panther, Stray Cats, Stone Sour, Sugarcult, Sum41, Taking Back Sunday, Tenacious D, Velvet Revolver, Wallows, Weird Al Yankovic, When in Rome, The Word Alive.
Actors: Sarah Silverman, Finn Wolfhard, Braedon Lemasters, Dylan Minnette, Chelsea Talmadge, David Hasselhoff, Thomas Payne, Jack Black.
About Plex
Plex is a popular platform for streaming all your favorite media. A highly-rated app on all major devices, Plex is the most comprehensive streaming platform available, seamlessly combining, organizing, and serving news, podcasts, and web shows alongside streaming music, live and recorded TV, as well as your personal collections of TV shows, movies, music, photos, and videos. With a highly customizable interface and smart recommendations based on the media you enjoy, Plex aspires to bring users the best media experience on the planet from any device, anywhere.
With the stock market booming, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States to Start a Business as well as accompanying videos.
To determine the most fertile grounds for planting and growing new ventures, WalletHub compared the 50 U.S. states across 26 key indicators of startup success. The data set ranges from financing accessibility to availability of human capital to office-space affordability.
Starting a Business in Utah (1=Best; 25=Avg.):
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-start-a-business/36934/
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Media Availability indicate that an event is open to media and that a media Q&A is planned.**
Governor Gary R. Herbert's Schedule
July 8, 2019 - July 12, 2019
**The Governor’s schedule is subject to frequent change**
Monday, July 8
Travel to Window Rock, Arizona
11:00 a.m. Meet with Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez
Location: Window Rock, Arizona
Travel to Salt Lake City
Tuesday, July 9
10:00 a.m. Meet with Brett Reistad, American Legion National Commander
Location: Governor’s Office
10:30 a.m. Meet with Salt Lake City Council Members
Location: Governor’s Office
2:30 p.m. Attend Boards and Commissions Meeting
Location: Governor’s Office
Wednesday, July 10
9:30 a.m. Attend Cabinet Meeting
Location: State Capitol
11:00 a.m. Lunch with Interns
Location: Governor’s Office
Thursday, July 11
9:00 a.m. Speak at Annual Native American Summit
Location: Utah Valley University, Orem
Media Access
Friday, July 12
No Public Events
Lt. Governor Spencer J. Cox's Schedule
July 8, 2019 - July 13, 2019
**The Lt. Governor’s schedule is subject to frequent change**
Monday, July 8
10:00 a.m. State of Utah Telework Initiative Press Event
Location: State Office Building
Media Availability
11:00 a.m. Update with Chief of Staff
Location: Lt. Governor’s Office
Tuesday, July 9
10:00 a.m. Multicultural Commission Meeting
Location: Weber State University
2:00 p.m. Boards and Commissions Meeting
Location: Governor’s Office
3:00 p.m. Meet with EDCUtah
Location: Lt. Governor’s Office
4:00 p.m. Meet with Greg Bell
Location: Lt. Governor’s Office
Wednesday, July 10
9:30 a.m. Cabinet Meeting
Location: State Capitol
11:00 a.m. Lunch with Interns
Location: Governor’s Office
12:00 p.m. Utah Coalition for Opioid Overdose Prevention Meeting
Location: State Capitol
3:00 p.m. Announcement with Governor’s Office of Economic Development
Location: Salt Lake City
4:30 p.m. Meet with Wolverine Fuels
Location: Lt. Governor’s Office
Thursday, July 11
9:30 a.m. Interview with Sanpete Messenger
Location: Lt. Governor’s Office
10:15 a.m. Elections Review with Staff
Location: Lt. Governor’s Office
Friday, July 12
9:25 a.m. Moderate Panel at the 2019 Governor’s Native American Summit
Location: Utah Valley University
Media Access
2:30 p.m. Tour Homeless Resource Centers
Location: Salt Lake City
4:30 p.m. Meet with Staff
Location: Salt Lake City
Saturday, July 13
8:00 a.m. Participate in Annual Ute Stampede Parade
Location: Nephi
