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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Teachers do not need computer science degrees to engage, enhance and extend student coding experiences due to the abundance of easily accessible creative coding and robotics programs. Dash and Dot are programmable robots that target students in grades K-8 with progression apps that are customizable for optimal learning in the classroom.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. And in some ways, it did supercharge, and now we're on the cusp of another revolution.

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Born Digitals Love To Make Things – Vintage Matters!

ASIDE

Source: ASIDE 2016 Born digitals deftly use technology; for them, it just is. Yet we constantly see discussions, blog posts, and articles about where and whether we should integrate technology, how it should be done, does it motivate learners, etc. They do it through social media. We are decades past this discussion.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, which has given money to charter schools (including Success Academy Charter Schools), media organizations (including The 74), and conservative education organizations (including Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education). Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making? We improve the world around us.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. We humans, in this framework, have no agency, no choice. A good myth. A dominant ideology.)