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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

Under “Long-Term Trends for Driving Ed Tech adoption in higher education for five or more years” were “Advancing Cultures of Innovation” and “Cross-Institution & Cross-Sector Collaboration.” “Short-Term Trends: (one to two years)” leads off with “Growing Focus on Measuring Learning.”

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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

Under “Long-Term Trends for Driving Ed Tech adoption in higher education for five or more years” were “Advancing Cultures of Innovation” and “Cross-Institution & Cross-Sector Collaboration.” “Short-Term Trends: (one to two years)” leads off with “Growing Focus on Measuring Learning.”

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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The trend is not unique to Hollywood; other American businesses— from appliance makers to luxury resorts —are similarly entangled with Asian money. The masochistic obsession with studying has deep roots. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) film and production studios.

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

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

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Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language” says Jeremy Hsu in IEEE Spectrum. The private student loan company has raised $50 million total, but I’m told “fintech” doesn’t “count” as ed-tech so let’s just ignore this trend, right?

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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. ” Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. ” ).