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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. This past week, I had students modeling processors, hardware, and software using play-dough. Catherine: And… I’m driving, three months later, hearing that they made robots like this.

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How Teaching Spatial Skills Could Be Part of a School’s Strategic Plan

MindShift

In 2007, Columbus School for Girls added “spatial skills development” to its new strategic plan, based on suggestions from Swarlis and a fellow administrator. Coding begins in first grade and robotics instruction begins in fourth grade. Getting Started. Beyond Math and Science Classrooms.

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

Hack Education

Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. But many in Silicon Valley have interpreted this pronouncement – “software is eating the world” – as an affirmation and an inevitability.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning Revolution Events Global Education Conference , November 17th - 21st, 2014 Partner Spotlight Africa ICT Right (AIR) is an ICT-oriented non-profit organization established in 2007 with its Headquarter in Ghana and run by a team of volunteers. More information at [link]. More information.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots

Hack Education

Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather dramatically turned into “ a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours ” of its release, as The Telegraph put it. ” If you made the software social, people would find it easier to learn and use.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The AP : “ Learning software in classrooms earns praise, causes debate.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.” Facial recognition software. ” 1600 cameras.