Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By Kathleen Costanza.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Robot”-like hackers striving for the greater good to take down “The Man.” This is especially risky when you’re out and about checking your balance in your bank account, transferring funds, posting your life to social media and inputting passwords into multiple web forms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Or, as Aneesa Davenport, Social Media & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. How do we keep algorithms in check?

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

–Immersive New Content Empowers Educators to Create Dynamic Digital Learning Environments for All Students – Silver Spring, Md. The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

The last thing we want as leaders is for every staff member to just take a risk for the “heck of it” and jeopardize student learning or educator confidence/growth. Try using new technology in staff meetings, social media, or professional development. Don’t be afraid to show vulnerability to your staff. Dr. Matthew X.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When corporations want to get the word out on their new products, they usually take to Twitter and other social media outlets first. NASA has a Digital Learning Network, so you can sign up your classes to Skype with an astronaut or a member of NASA. It''s a great way to have your students connect with experts.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

The Amazon Robotics: Fulfillment Center Virtual Career Tour is my favorite. You go behind the scenes to learn how Amazon picks, packs, and ships orders from their fulfillment centers. ” After watching this VFT, our 3rd grade students teamed up with our high school robotics class to learn, play, and have some fun.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Its interface is fun and uses virtual robots for both beginners and experts, offering a simple, Scratch-like language called Blockly for new coders or allowing advanced students to work directly with Java code. Its AI uses sentiment analysis to scan for self-harm and bullying messages across social media and web searches.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Bay Area–based nonprofit makes commercial-quality digital learning games currently used in thousands of schools. Building community around game-based learning requires reaching out into the media space that reaches teachers—whether that be webinars, news articles, conferences, social media, or networking events,” said Rushton.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning. The spaces in the district focus on robotics, coding and creating. Castano and Willow Oaks schools are expected to open their makerspaces in the fall.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In her current role, she works directly with the district’s online tutoring programs, including FEV Tutor , to accelerate learning for students. FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States. VEX Robotics demonstrated its VEX GO and VEX 123 solutions.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 3, 2019

We discussed my new book Digital Learning in Organizations and the concepts behind it. We discussed change management, innovation in large organisations, mobile and social learning, personalised learning, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and inevitably, the psychology of learning.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 22, 2020

Part of the driver for consumer purchase of digital curriculum is the fast-growing home schooling and “unschooling” free range learning movement which is personalized learning. Digital learning shopping has also been called the “Amazonization” of education. Take the 2020 Survey.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Students will receive iPads.

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techlearning

AUGUST 9, 2018

One of my Ed Techs ( Ashley Pampe ) actually created a “Social Media” team on her elementary campus. She vets and reviews all their images and blog entries before posting, but it’s an effective way for students to learn appropriate posting behaviors before they dive into the middle school world of social media.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. Karen also taught 7th grade Math at The Dalton School and 7th/8th grade Math at LaBrum Middle School, a public school in Philadelphia.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Social Media, Social Justice and STEM - Eric A Walters, Director of Technology Tikho''s Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia - Natasha Sarkar, CAWST Youth Wavemakers Using VoiceThread to Connect Students with Science Content Specialists - Dr. Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Virtual reality applications offer immersive experiences, making abstract concepts tangible and enhancing experiential learning. Technology cultivates digital literacy, critical for navigating the modern world. Automation and digital tools in the workplace optimize processes, saving time and resources.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

They argue that putatively equitable technologies actually reinstate social inequalities. They worry that the pedagogical benefits of having students participate in the open web and/or social media might be cancelled out by trolls, hate speech and other forms of online abuse.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The idea that a robot can replace teachers is laughable. This five step to-do list can help educators engage in artificial intelligence and begin using it to positively impact both teaching and learning. Learn about AI. Well, as a mother of two rambunctious kids, I think certainly not.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. From Science Alert : “ Evidence Shows Students Still Learn More Effectively From Print Textbooks Than Screens.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

“Digital learning systems now charge students for access codes needed to complete coursework, take quizzes, and turn in homework,” Buzzfeed – which consistently does some of the best education journalism – reports. Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Ohio State University and Apple on Wednesday announced a collaboration that will start a digital learning effort at the university that Apple and university officials said may represent the company’s most ambitious program in higher education.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” This is my shocked face. Immigration and Education. ” I’m not sure when this was or where this was.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via Scientific American : “How the FDA Manipulates the Media.” tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. Via AL.com : “Two more Alabama schools were on lockdown today after a social media posts and phoned-in threat warned ‘clowns’ might show up at two Birmingham area schools.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above. The latest report formerly known as the Sloan Survey of Online Learning has been released.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their social media presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms. Green Imperial Pigeon.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Two different opinions on WIkipedia : “How Social Media Endangers Knowledge” by Hossein Derakhshan in Wired. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Teachers Are Finding Innovative Ways to Use Robots in Class,” claims Education Week. Upgrades and Downgrades. ” Trick question.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. . “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. Teaching Tolerance is out with its own “ Digital Literacy Framework.”

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