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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.” And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs.

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How To Find A School Your Kids Will Love (And That You Will, Too)

MindShift

” That’s one of the many quotes that has made Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 lecture on rethinking the nation’s schools become one of the most popular TED talks — with more than 50 million views. And that our system of education is more like a fast food chain — robotic, formalized and industrial.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

VLACS is headquartered in a former high school in Exeter, New Hampshire — a brick edifice used for a century until the town opened a new high school in 2006. During the interview, Bramante sat beside her laptop, awaiting an upcoming “discussion-based assessment” with one of her students. Relationships Matter.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. 2006, Tuition and Fees Up 63%.” More on sports-related lawsuits in the sports section below. And more on how team losses affect sentencing of juveniles in the research section below. This is a great headline.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Robots Will Save Liberal Education.” Via Campus Technology : “ MIT , Segway Robotics Hackathon Focuses on Eldercare.” Via Data & Society : “Assessing the Legacy of inBloom.” Think again.”