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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

Edsurge

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. PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013. We cannot simply will it to let up.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

When we’re working on group projects, they’ll say things like, ‘You can do the typing,’ as opposed to getting into the nitty-gritty of how to build this robot,” she said. Yet Koroma, who is Black, said she feels as if many of her white peers dismiss her as less capable. Sometimes it feels like I have to prove myself all over again.”.

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What Exactly Is Needed To Get Your Classroom Coding?

TeacherCast

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Todd Beard and Sam Patterson to learn how classrooms can take that first leap into the awesome world of Coding. Todd Beard has been an educator since 2001 working with students in kindergarten through adulthood. Join us, as we dive into the Hour of Code and Beyond on TeacherCast Podcast 122.

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Dr. Marina Bers Named Chair of Tufts University’s Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development

techlearning

With her new appointment, Dr. Bers will continue to explore and research how young students learn to be creators and collaborators with technology and with each other. These programs include the KIBO robot, a developmentally appropriate robotics construction set; and ScratchJr , a visual, block-based programming language for tablets.

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Thursday - Paulo Blikstein from Stanford on Cutting-Edge Technologies for Inner-City Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is the director of Stanford''s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab and director of Stanford Makers'' Club and FabLab@School project. Paulo’s research focus on the confluence of expressive technologies for learning and critical pedagogy. He completed his PhD. in Metallurgical Engineering and a MEng.

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The Ed-Tech Imaginary

Hack Education

Despite all the talk about our being "data-driven," about the rigors of "learning sciences" and the like, much of the ed-tech imaginary is quite fanciful. " The push for everyone to "learn to code." So why would Matrix-style learning be desirable? This storytelling hopes to set the agenda.

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