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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

Edsurge

For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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How will we learn languages in the future?

Mark Smithers

New technologies revamped foreign language learning, in this article we highlight out what to expect in the upcoming years. Chatting with robots. What if the teachers from the future are robots! When we talk about the future, we often think of robots, and in the case of foreign language learning, this may well become a reality.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Many schools and districts will contract with outside consultants and instructional coaches to offer support and training for their teachers. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). New Teacher Training. What do you think?

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Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018

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Students who complete this introductory course will be eligible to enroll in the more advanced Self-Driving Car or Robotics nanodegree programs. Thrun claims that “that nearly 60 students [in the former program] have already found new jobs at companies like BMW, Lockheed Martin, NIO, Volvo and Amazon Robotics.”

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

The technology that tracks digital records has spurred a cryptocurrency gold rush and an NFT explosion. New technology could push these questions further by offering people more alternatives to institutions of all kinds. If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference, "Emerging Technology," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. Simon argued that you would describe the process as “outrageous.” “If

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