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Communicating in the Information Age

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: [link] Fast forward to 2014 and my district, like many others, now uses an automated notification service. This message is then delivered by a polite robotic voice basically telling me that I can sleep in if I wish or spend the day slaving over my snow shovel. Talk about convenience.

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Facebook helps makerspaces expand in the classroom

eSchool News

Now with the help of Facebook and the Ravenswood Education Foundation, he’s come close to reaching that goal. By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning.

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Team 4443 Sock Monkeys Once Again!

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am a part of Team 4443: Sock Monkeys and we are a robotics team through the FTC. Robotics teams start the competition season by learning what that year’s challenge is; they then immediately get to work on designing and building a robot that is best suited to that year’s challenge. What does FTC stand for/mean?

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. So go to everfi.com/coolcat.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges. ” Compare/contrast that headline with this one, also in Techcrunch : “ Facebook and Instragram change to crack down on underage children.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” 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. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media.