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Understanding and Unleashing Student Creativity

EdTechTeacher

These advances in “machine learning” have led the World Economic Forum to predict that by 2025, robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks and that by next year, “even work tasks overwhelmingly performed by humans today — communicating, interacting, coordinating, managing and advising — will begin to be taken on by machines”.

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What Computer Science Education Looks Like in the Nation’s Largest School District

Edsurge

Students in schools with the SEP program begin by learning block-based programming languages like Scratch before getting into robotics, physical computing, text-based programming like Python and web development. Computer science is a class SEP students attend daily and is a required core subject.

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

The Ed-Tech space is so vast that it can encapsulate almost every aspect of education, including curriculum development , lesson delivery, and assessments. Now, technology is the new power weapon in this new era of computers and robots. It is also learned that the city plans to create nearly a thousand AI experimental schools by 2025.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

I pay attention to this story, as someone who studies education and education technology, because I think these sorts of predictions, these assessments about the present and the future, frequently serve to define, disrupt, destabilize our institutions. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. The first family told her they live in Mission Bay, a rapidly redeveloping area where a new elementary school isn’t scheduled to open until 2025. Often, they fail.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. IHE blogger John Warner responds : “Algorithmic Assessment vs. Critical Reflection.” for Robotics Contest.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Via The Atlantic : “The Schools Transforming Immigrant Education.”