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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

2018 was a year in which public school teachers all over the US rose up in protest over pay , working conditions, and funding , striking in red states like West Virginia , Kentucky, and Oklahoma despite an anti-union ruling by the Supreme Court. Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Don’t worry, teachers.

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Facial Recognition Technology Has No Place in Schools

Doug Levin

More context:: The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center has been at the forefront of research into privacy and surveillance law and policy, with a particular focus on the dangerous and unchecked growth of facial recognition applications. Facial Recognition Software Will Not Stop School Shootings (Slate, May 21, 2018).

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

As a result, I was able to find some excellent research on not only programming (Ricketts) but the use of robotics (Elkin). After conversations, my administrator scheduled a tour of a local STEM Academy that has robotics in place. ” Learning Policy Institute : 8. 2018, March 13, 2018). link] Elkin, M.,

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Vernier Software & Technology Offers New Activities for the mBot™ Robot to Teach Coding and Robotics

techlearning

BEAVERTON, Oregon, June 25, 2018 — Vernier Software & Technology recently launched Coding with mBot: Self-Driving Vehicles activities module written for the mBot™ by MakeBlock. Students can use the mBot robot and Vernier-created activities to master introductory coding and programming skills through hands-on, standards-aligned learning.

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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019

Edsurge

In 2018 we witnessed a clash of titans as government and tech companies collided on privacy issues around collecting, culling and using personal data. News cycles about killer robots and one-sided conversations about AI replacing humans at work have been encouraging and stoking fear for years. But we must understand this tech too.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. Credit: eLearn.fyi. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade.