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CES 2016: Lego’s New Classroom Robot Brings STEM Lessons to Life

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith Lego’s WeDo 2.0 has a knack for making students smile as they take their first steps into the world of programming.

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IT#1: What’s next in ed-tech? These 18 trends

eSchool News

Produced with the insights of an international panel of experts, and with nearly one million downloads per year, this report on emerging technologies for learning is likely the most well-read report identifying key technology trends for primary and secondary education. Personalizing Learning. Online Learning.

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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. Online learning is on the rise. Preconference workshop.

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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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How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads

The Hechinger Report

Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders to a small, white robot called Sphero. The girls in the program have learned how to use coding language to dodge out of “escape rooms,” program drones and hack into their peers’ robots.

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What’s next in ed-tech? These 18 trends

eSchool News

Produced with the insights of an international panel of experts, and with nearly one million downloads per year, this report on emerging technologies for learning is likely the most well-read report identifying key technology trends for primary and secondary education. Personalizing Learning. Online Learning.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

The report notes, “Success in teaching is closely tied to test results, and teachers are not frequently rewarded for innovative approaches and improvements in teaching and learning, much less allowed to scale and replicate these breakthroughs.” Teachers are becoming more comfortable with this idea of “blending learning.”.

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