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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. Providing personalized student learning is wonderful, but at what cost? Robots will do everything better than us.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! Via Bryan Alexander : “ Robots , buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s Edsurge : “Udacity VP of Learning: ‘We Never Start Anything Out of Academic Interest’ ” Here’s Techcrunch : “Udacity introduces real robots and virtual words to help students build skills.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.” ” “How do children of color learn to draw themselves? .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. charter school.” Accreditation and Certification.