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What 5 chatbots tell us about the future of HE

Neo LMS

However, voice-assisted technology isn’t the only one making a splash in universities; text-based communication is also a big hit. The bot also uses personalized data , so it can proactively nudge students to complete tasks, based on their particular case. That was back in 2016 when professor Ashok K. Goel, Ph.D.

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Marc Benioff Wants to Make Bay Area Schools ‘Best in Country’

Edsurge

million goes to San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District to fund principals’ innovative ideas, hiring computer science and math teachers, developing college and career guidance and buying assistive technology for special education. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) September 1, 2016.

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Salesforce Donates $8.5M to Computer Science Education

Edsurge

Funding in both districts will go toward hiring math and computer science middle school staff, buying assistive technology for special education students and supporting college and career programs. Data from Oakland Unified for the 2014 school year shows 29.7 million, $6 million goes to San Francisco and $2.5 in 2014 to 3.05

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. She and her classroom assistants constantly push themselves to adopt a different mindset, which school leaders say has been key to narrowing the gap. This includes assistive technology devices.

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Secrets of Accessible Online Content You Need to Know

The CoolCatTeacher

The Accessibility Journey at the University of Hartford Vicki: So, on your campus, at the University of Hartford, on October 2016 you formed and worked with an organization to start helping your campus be more accessible. Bevin: Our institutional goals that we had for the year 2016, we have a strategic plan put in place.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?