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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

And yet the education/technology industry (press) kept up with its rosy repetition that social equality is surely its priority, a product feature even – that VR, for example, a technology it has for so long promised is “ on the horizon ,” is poised to help everyone, particularly teachers and students, become more empathetic.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t,” said Jim Stigler, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the process of teaching and learning subjects including math.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. There are things that technology can do that humans can't. How does that work?

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J. In sixth grade, she enrolled at Fisher Middle School to continue robotics and STEM programs. It was engineering week at A.J.

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Redefining Employment: The Rise of AI and Job Markets?

Evelyn Learning

For example, jobs in manufacturing, data entry, customer service, and transportation are being affected by AI and automation technologies. Job Creation: The advancement of AI technology also creates new job opportunities. These emerging job roles require specialized skills and knowledge related to AI technologies.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

Hack Education

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. There are promises about “brain training” exercises that will keep the brain “fit” as one ages. (

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Selling the Future of Ed-Tech (& Shaping Our Imaginations)

Hack Education

I spoke briefly tonight in Anna Smith's class on critical approaches to education technology (before a really excellent discussion with her students). And thank you for offering a class on critical perspectives on education and technology!). On the other hand, robots will still administer students multiple choice tests.