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Makeblock and xTool Ignite ISTE 2024:

Ask a Tech Teacher

Their diverse range of products includes sophisticated hardware, intuitive software, and a meticulously crafted curriculum, enhanced by top robotics competitions. The mBot2 Rover Robotics Kit offers a multitude of educational scenarios that cater to various learning environments.

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Voice-Based English Tutoring App MyBuddy Merges With a Friend: Edwin

Edsurge

MyBuddy, an artificial intelligence-powered English tutoring app, features a friendly robot that guides children through speaking exercises. Currently, MyBuddy offers vocabulary, pronunciation and reading comprehension exercises tailored for English language learners ages 4 to 12. will become the brand for the combined entity.

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Top Blog Posts of January 2016

The CoolCatTeacher

Add to it a great month for Every Classroom Matters and all of you who share and reshare on Facebook and Twitter and you’re looking at more than a million educators reached through the network built around this blog. Get outside, get some exercise. Top Tips for Teaching with Robots (using Sphero!).

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). Don’t worry, teachers.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

This, he says, results in “a ton of compulsive behavior” — around everything from pornography to World of Warcraft to Facebook. Or, say you want to stop browsing Facebook during business hours. In that moment, the app serves up an intervention like a breathing exercise, or an invitation to get in touch with a friend.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Two teachers, seated at U-shaped tables on opposite ends of the classroom, were going through a reading exercise with four kids each, helping them sound out letters. Students at ReNEW Schaumburg charter school in New Orleans write down their goals for Summit, a personalized learning platform designed with the help of Facebook engineers.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

If we continue on our current trajectory, they will come of age in a world filled with smart cities, embedded augmented reality, smart robots and revolutionary nanotech. The Summit Base Camp Personalized Learning Platform was designed by Summit Charter Schools with support from Facebook engineers in response to a problem.