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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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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. The company also designed a makerspace for nearby Hayward Unified School District that year.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8 Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.