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3 ways telepresence robots are impacting learning

eSchool News

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , during 2013–2015, 3.9 Telepresence robots are offering real-time solutions to these types of problems and having a profoundly positive impact on these children, thanks to tech companies who are working with schools to make distance learning successful. percent of boys and 4.3

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Robot Maker Wonder Workshop Raises a $20M Series B to Expand Internationally

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The company’s flagship products are two round blue robots aimed at introducing students six to 12 to computational thinking. Students use an iOS or Android app to code commands for the robots. The numbers speak to rapid growth: Wonder Workshop founder and CEO Vikas Gupta said that no schools were using Dash and Dot in early 2015.

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Kid-Centric Schools: When There's a Will There's a Way

A Principal's Reflections

When I wrote Uncommon Learning back in 2015, the premise was to set the stage as to how we could create schools that work for kids. Marine robotics lab (M.A.T.E. Not only do the kids develop robots that have received national acclaim, but they also create marketing and branding for their creations. How cool is that?

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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

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In 2015, he famously criticized promises about what was then the latest in AI for education — a tool from a company called Knewton. The CEO of Knewton, Jose Ferreira, said his product would be “like a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind and figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are, down to the percentile.”

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

This brings us to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the novel ways in which responsive, social robots have started playing a role in teaching ASD children social skills. The robot also has sensors, cameras, and facial recognition software to capture a child’s responses and evaluate progress. Here are a few examples: Kaspar.

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Finch Robots are Coming to Our Library Makerspace in Fall 2015

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our library makerspace will feature 12 Finch Robots by BirdBrain Technologies during the 2015-2016 school year. The robots are on loan to us for the entire school year, and this loan comes with the possibility of these robots being a permanent donation to our space. These robots will of course be a part of that as well.

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Best Learning Apps of 2015

Graphite Blog

2015 was another great year for learning apps. The Robot Factory by Tinybop. This sandbox app lets students design robots, leveraging play to spark interest in engineering. Kids direct their own creation ideas and styles by choosing robot parts such as the torso, head, arms, legs, hands, facial features, and color scheme.