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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Educational Conferences and Events: Attend educational conferences and events, both locally and nationally. These events provide exposure to new ideas and foster collaboration. and educational games promote active participation, competition, and reinforce learning objectives.

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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. The Internet of Things (IoT) impacts virtually all of us.

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Ed-Tech Agitprop

Hack Education

I have never been able to make it to this event -- it's always coincided with the end-of-the-year series I've traditionally written for Hack Education. I did speak, a few years ago, at the OEB Midsummit event in Iceland. I can't say I've ever seen other keynote speakers at ed-tech events get heckled. So they jeered. Why do you?

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

From those, event organizers and the public decided on the roughly 400 sessions that made the agenda. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. This year saw more than 1,500 session proposals from 42 countries, including 49 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

Amplify Fractions covers math standards in grades 3–6 and uses adaptive learning, interactive storytelling, and a personalized digital tutor to help students conquer fractions. KinderLab Robotics ( kinderlabrobotics.com ) announced Free Throw , a throwing-arm attachment that lets the KIBO robot toss ping pong-sized balls.

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

Hack Education

Perhaps we might recognize, as we wait to see if Mattel’s or Clayton Christensen’s predictions about the future come true, that this fantasy of the robot companion or caretaker has its own, long history – stories that elicit fear as often as comfort. Maybe they’ll change how we think about robots.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. Learning in The Flow of Work—Wherever Work May Be Just as COVID-19 has blurred the work and home lives of many, it is further blurring the boundaries between learning and working.

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