Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

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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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that access to computers and other digital devices had no impact on students' proficiency in reading, math, and science. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By harnessing the power of AI in education technology, learners can access a broader understanding of a topic, mitigating the structural bias of the institution and curriculum. An AI tech company can help by giving teachers the power of AI to scan text and turn it into well-designed slides. That’s over ten hours a week.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In middle and high school, Jose enrolled in a technology magnet school and competed in robotics tournaments. He had an internship at the tech and manufacturing company 3M. Then in 2001, two huge earthquakes shook El Salvador, and then-President George W. When he got to college, he found a tight friend group.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. It’s the relationship of these companies to information and to education. (A Small world, I guess.).

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