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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

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In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. Scanlon says it should be possible, for example, for users to tune a system to recognize that different pronunciation of words are acceptable.

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

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For example if the topic was gaming in the classroom: who do you think you are? For example, an Innovator can inspire Early Adopters and potentially some Early Majority, but would be hard pressed to motivate a Laggard. 5 An example of this may be like the above-mentioned person, except at a department level choosing to go paperless.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

EdTechTeacher

To begin, Justin recommends reading Frank Levy and Richard Murnane’s work, Dancing with Robots. As an example, Justin tells the story of the hot water heater in his parents’ house. Computers can increasingly solve routine tasks, so the question becomes, what are the kinds of things that computers and robots can’t do.

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Human 2.0

Learning with 'e's

We have seen many other popular culture examples of the cyborg, from the six-million dollar man to Robocop - and each is endowed with superhuman strength, or enhanced senses. Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. Do we really need a post-human future?

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement. Father Goose).Sea

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

This isn’t simply a matter of “ robots are coming for your jobs.” If only I could build some kind of robot to do all our homework for us… ” Danny’s mother, as it turns out, is a housekeeper for Professor Bullfinch, who happens to have a computer in a laboratory in his house. . Helicopter Robots.