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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. for Robotics Contest.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. ” From the HR Department.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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billion by 2025. Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones.

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