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How a Stereotype-Smashing Teen Founded the First All-Girl Muslim Robotics Team

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Zaina Siyed answered that question by creating the FemSTEM Robotics Scholarship Program , a free STEM program for Muslim girls aged 10 to 14. Siyed was fed up with never seeing girls—especially Muslim girls like herself—competing in the robotics challenges she loved so much. How did you become interested in STEM learning and robotics?

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

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In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. The post How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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In popular culture, artificial intelligence is used to describe anything from product recommendations to self-driving cars and futuristic robotic overlords. Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Going to School, Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech

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Andrew Sutherland (circa 2011), Quizlet founder and chief technology officer. Being a part of Google’s Code Next program, a free 4-year computer science program for Black and Latinx high schoolers, was the key catalyst in helping Escalante formulate his idea and learn how to code a working product to mirror his vision.

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Teaching open-mindedness engages students with different interests

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Educating a new generation of citizens of the world means rethinking the process of value, attitude, and behavioral acquisition (Wells, 2011), and this is no small feat. Let’s take a trending topic like Robots and Artificial Intelligence, related to IB coursework in Biology or Physics. Practicing Listening to Different Answers.

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Ed-Tech Agitprop

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I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Robots aren't coming for your jobs, but management may well be. Why do you?

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Why Your School Should Stick to Core Principles Instead of Market Trends

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For example, say robots and drones will be the hot-ticket item of the year (according to a recent study – they will be ). Does it make sense for you to purchase robots and drones for your school when you already have interactive displays in your classrooms and laptops for each student? Department of Education.

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