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ISTE 2016: Educational Equity, Lifelong Learning, and a Simpler Approach to Edtech

eSpark

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping it simple. Bringing real-world experiences into the classroom.

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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.

Education 100
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ISTE 2016: Educational Equity, Lifelong Learning, and a Simpler Approach to Edtech

eSpark

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping in simple. Bringing real-world experiences into the classroom.

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

Edsurge

In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 don’t pursue STEM courses because they find the subjects too difficult. But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging.

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Teaching open-mindedness engages students with different interests

100mentors

Of course, being open-minded is not an end in itself; but the means of consciously finding what you stand for in a vast range of standpoints. Let’s take a trending topic like Robots and Artificial Intelligence, related to IB coursework in Biology or Physics. Mulhall, Smith, Hart & Gunstone: 2016). Let’s see this practice.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.