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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

Edsurge

In a rare demo of its abilities, Robyi’s founder and CEO, Elnaz Sarraf, listens to the robot name colors, animals and their accompanying noises while displaying pictures on its torso. “Today is a great day to learn about animals.” The black cat meows. Anything involving video and audio and children is uniquely sensitive,” she adds.

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MSET Conference, Colbert, Crabs, & QR Codes

The Daring Librarian

See live demos and speak with representatives! How to be a Presentation Ninja, Transliteracy, Advocacy & the Remix MashUp Revolution , Easy Animation for Dynamite Disposition & Program Promotion , the ever popular and soon to be newly updated - Gadget-A-Go-Go , and of course QR Codes in the Classroom (& the Library!)

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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

The Hechinger Report

Fifty-six percent of Black students at four-year universities and colleges go part time at some point, versus 42 percent of white students, making it far less likely that they will graduate within six years, according to the advocacy group Complete College America. “I It’s just the way society is.”

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AI and Personalized Learning That Goes Beyond Tech: The Latest Camelback Ventures Cohort

Edsurge

During the demo, Kwan told the audience that teachers can assess students on language and literacy, math and social emotional development. It wants to create a movement of “equity designers” through youth programs, leadership development and educational advocacy tools.

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Billions in federal financial aid is going to students who aren’t graduating

The Hechinger Report

Many who do enroll end up worse off than they started out, struggling to repay loans they took out to pay for educations they never finished; Pell recipients are nearly twice as likely as other students to borrow, the public-policy organization Demos says. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Upon completion of the course, students receive an “Advocacy Plan,” which outlines their strengths and challenges and makes recommendations to consider and is shared with their educators. Boxlight also gave demos of the new ProColor interactive touch table, featuring a 49” diagonal screen size to better facilitate collaborative work.

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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

But Large Language Models (LLMs), and particularly the recent demo of ChatGPT, seem to have put the fear of God into everyone from middle school English teachers to the CEO of Google. Lots of people thought text-to-image tools like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney were fun.

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