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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. A judge ruled, however, in 2008 that students' copyright was not infringed upon as they'd agreed to the Terms of Service. That robot grading is degrading.

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5 Signs It’s Time to Go Back to School

EdNews Daily

This is down from 73 percent in 2008. College graduates, on the other hand, tanked by only 1 percent from 84 percent to 83 percent during the Great Recession of 2008. The Robots Are Taking Your Job. AI and robotics degrees are becoming more popular than ever. They are fast replacing cashier jobs at those outlets.

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Wikipedia is probably an early example of this, although many participants would argue that it has become a bit more cut-throat than originally intended. Recognize, create and act on opportunities.

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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

The CoolCatTeacher

She was named Outstanding Professor at UVa’s School of Education and Human Development in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. So let's talk about your second example. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974. 00;01;31;05 – 00;01;40;18 Dr. Tomlinson I can think of two. I love that.

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Play is crucial for middle schoolers, too

The Hechinger Report

For example, the modeling clay and other crafts were used as part of a stop-motion animation project in his classroom. Other activities for the school’s older students included creating cardboard roller coasters to be judged by the school’s second graders and building a robot that can move without wheels.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.