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Voice-Based English Tutoring App MyBuddy Merges With a Friend: Edwin

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MyBuddy, an artificial intelligence-powered English tutoring app, features a friendly robot that guides children through speaking exercises. The heads of the two companies knew each other, and last year MyBuddy started to build its own language-learning curriculum to add to its offerings. will become the brand for the combined entity.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here’s how the Mattel website, where you can pre-order the device, now describes Aristotle’s features: Aristotle™ combines multiple nursery devices into one convenient, hands-free system. There’s Olympia in E.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

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Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Registration for the course began November 1, 2017.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” “Can States Tackle Police Misconduct With Certification Systems?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.