The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 29, 2023

Entire industries will reorient around it. The library robot concierge has finally arrived--and we've only just begun to understand the capabilities and benefits. The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. online community.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.” Via Techcrunch : “Tech industry and comp-sci majors are highest earners, says LinkedIn job survey.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ AI Chatbot Hubert Talks to Students to Collect Course Feedback.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The strong downturn in production industries in this country can be traced to 1983. Ever since then, the percentage of jobs in these industries and the average pay have steadily dwindled. The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “More Law Schools Begin Accepting GRE Test Results.” ” The Business of Student Loans.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” 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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms. It’s perhaps not surprising. Many now have a laptop for every student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. Since the 1980s, deregulation and corporate consolidation have led to a drastic hollowing out of the local industries that once sustained heartland cities. For more on this subject, see Brian S.

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

Because of industry and because of institutions and because of capitalism and because of the weight of history and tradition, technologies are often hegemonic, even if, from time-to-time, we can seize them for counter-hegemonic stories and practices. Or rather, what exactly do computers subvert? Institutions? The public?). It is outmoded.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Wired : “ Med Students Are Getting Terrible Training in Robotic Surgery.” ” From the NCES : “Changes in Bullying Victimization and Hate-Related Words at School Since 2007.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. “The textbook publishing industry is considering a transformation that could significantly alter how faculty members assign readings, publishers make money and students obtain course materials,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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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. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Should you ban laptops ?

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