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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Can a robot be whimsical? Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer? The last example I will share goes to the heart of instruction.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. How is Google influencing policy?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Mic : “ Pretoria Girls High School students are protesting racist hair policy , code of conduct.” Data and “Research” My latest calculations on ed-tech venture capital : “Ed-Tech Startup Funding Data: August 2016.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the policy change via IHE. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language” says Jeremy Hsu in IEEE Spectrum. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. Here’s the very short press release from the Department of Education.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. ” “Trump’s neo industrial policies won’t create these jobs,” he added. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. ” It’s pretty terrible to report on how a “ President Oprah ” would shape education policy and not talk about how she has actively promoted pseudoscience. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Private city. Or something like that.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. From the HR Department.