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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

Edsurge

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. When McGraw Hill AR released an update that enables students to work in groups, immediately my CEER [communication, engineering, entrepreneurship and robotics] students wanted to try it.

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How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?

Edsurge

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. in AI technology by the year 2030, so there is almost a Sputnik-like push for the tech going on right now in China. to the idea of bringing in robots for some teaching functions. But should we? In three years time, what will be the role of human teachers?

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How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?

The Hechinger Report

Jobs in information technology are growing quickly and employers are trying to find ways to get kids excited about careers in the field. We’ve all heard the dire predictions about the coming robot apocalypse. As many as 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs by 2030.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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Look Here: Predicting 2020 Requires 20/20 Vision

EdNews Daily

If trends continue unabated, by 2030 we may be looking at nearly 50 percent of school-aged children walking away from traditional public education in this country. I don’t know about you, but I find this bit of information staggering. Next year, that number is expected to climb above 30 percent. One out of every two children.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

Now, technology is the new power weapon in this new era of computers and robots. This information is later used to improve the teaching styles of educators. Information Source: IBM An article published last year talks about how China uses AI to reduce the educational gap within the country.

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