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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

eSchool News

If we go back to the War of 1812 lecture example, we can see the value of adaptive learning if we instead embrace these tech advancements. According to a McKinsey’s study, teachers spend over 20 percent of their time just preparing for class. AI transforms textbooks into interactive study guides. Here’s how.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Washington Post : “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature.” ” “Students, Directory Information , and Social Media – Part 2” by Bill Fitzgerald. Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. Never forget: Bill Gates once called constructionism “b t.” ” ). “Hardly anyone,” either way.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via the New Haven Independent : “The school board [in New Haven , Connecticut ] will allow Yale University continue with a study on students struggling to read, but tighter rules will be in place for any future research.” ” The study includes DNA testing. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Wired : “Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s Effect on Kids.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” IHE blogger Joshua Kim predicts there is “1 technology, 2 futures” as he writes about “ Robot Burger Makers and Adaptive Learning Platforms.”