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Annual Invent It challenge launches, focusing on solving health problems

eSchool News

Highlights from the 2015 Invent It! is a robotic nurse that can deliver food, water or medicine to a sick patient. For complete entry guidelines and Official Rules, visit [link]. “We are honored to once again join with the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center and Spark!Lab This tool was able to harness enough energy to power an LED.

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Why A Makerspace Popped Up in a Museum

Educator Innovator

Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV), in Richmond, Virginia, they might re-think that image. Zainab Hassan, 20, first came to The Mix in 2015.

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"10 Practices for Quality Service by Library Staff" (Forwardable Version) | Dr. Steve Albrecht | Friday Webinar

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This set of 10 can be useful as a reminder for you as a library service professional and as a set of training guidelines for managers and supervisors. Don't get robotic in your answers, greetings, or wrap-ups. In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities.

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10 Commandments of Innovative Teaching

The Principal of Change

Today’s learners can find out what a professor at MIT thinks about the future of robots…and we have to be ok that his/her answer if most likely much better than ours ever would be. Standards are guidelines, you are the architect. In the same fashion we have to model to our students where to find the “right answers” to their questions.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Number added to the “ed-tech dead pool”: 4. The amount of investment is up from last year by over $1 billion. million this year).

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed. That’s the norm right now.

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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.