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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

Edsurge

The robots are coming, and some of them are charming. That was my reaction on a recent visit to Singularity University, when I met two robots named Pris and Pepper. To date, 75 percent of the global population has access to a mobile phone. What will face-to-face mean in a robot-filled world?

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

The VR sets, merge cubes, augmented reality mobile apps, etc., Now, technology is the new power weapon in this new era of computers and robots. It is also learned that the city plans to create nearly a thousand AI experimental schools by 2025. all give amazing augmented reality and learning experiences.

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Web 2.0: Balancing the Protection of Students for 21st Century Technology and Learning

EdTechSandyK

Robots in warehouses now move the shelves and racks. Art, entertainment, and mobile sculpture. Christensen - How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns - predicts that 50% of all public school customers will be gone by 2025. Tax returns are outsourced to India for completion.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. And the Internet? The Internet was not invented in 1991.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Engagement” app Check I’m Here has raised $1 million in Series A funding from Jeffrey Vinik, Ronald Schlosser, and 500 Mobile Collective. On the horizon: makerspaces, online learning, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, and wearables. John Wiley & Sons has acquired online education marketing firm Ranku.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

billion by 2025. Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones.

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