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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. Can a robot be whimsical? For starters, let's not give them robots' work. Even more amazing, ChatGPT made some independent artistic choices. The last example I will share goes to the heart of instruction.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

Edsurge

Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. The big loser in this battle?

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Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO, Eyes Next Education Startup

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Yesterday, the New York-based company announced that Ryan Prichard, who has been with the company since July 2012, most recently as Chief Technology Officer, will assume the CEO position. In 2012 the company expanded to deliver online courseware to a few universities—in particular, a math readiness course with Arizona State University.

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With Eyes on Asia, Kidaptive Raises $19.1M to Grow Its ‘Invisible’ Adaptive Learning Platform

Edsurge

Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. He’s also careful around how he frames adaptive-learning technology: “There’s a lot of legitimate concern about the robotic tutor. Back in the U.S.,

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Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore

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For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. It’s a far cry from 2012, when then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told teachers , “At the federal level, we spend $2.5 The list goes on and on.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! Arlington Independent School District is an edtech integration leader both districtwide and in the classroom, and other districts can look to AISD for inspiration.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. More on racism at a robotics competition in the immigration section above. ” That “hate group”? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.