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The Education of an Android Teacher

Edsurge

When you meet an android, it’s important to follow etiquette. I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” This makes it difficult to discern whether the android is a sci-fi character come to life or mere parlor trick.

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Sphero, an Introduction

My Paperless Classroom

This is the first in a series of posts exploring the resources for teaching with the Sphero robot published at https://www.gosphero.com/education/. The Sphero company made these posts possible by providing 2 robots for review purposes. As a nerd I am excited about this robot ball because ROBOT BALL!

Robotics 101
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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

Edsurge

But some companies are jumping the gun. Below are the finest collection of stories you’ll never see on any other day, and which have been brewing in our heads over the course of 2018 in between too many cups of coffee, indecipherable email pitches, 1:1 meetings, product sprints and the occasional but unavoidable sparring on Twitter.

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College Prep: The Often Winding Road for Parents, Students and High Schools

EdNews Daily

Over the course of five years with the university, I noticed a common thread of concerns that kept bubbling to the surface during many conversations; unfortunately, most of the discussions focused on the following three areas: lack of research, student loan debt and poor career decisions. in Curriculum and Instruction. It’s happening.

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Game Education: It’s in Their DNA – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

Game #4 – Sphero the Robot. Harry Moore School of NJCU recently received a grant from Sphero, a company that makes ball-size glowing robots that teachers can use to o teach literacy, coding, STEM. They smile, laugh, and applaud as the iPad visually prompts them to shake the robot so it will change color over and over again.

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Code With Kids and See What Happens - written with Karly Moura!

Adam Welcome

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” Check out " Why does Code.org use Blockly, a visual programming language, for its intro to Computer Science course?" Robots are cool. What better way to take coding to the next level than to code a robot to drive or roll or to program a drone to fly?

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Code With Kids and See What Happens #hourofcode #edtech #edchat #caedchat

Adam Welcome

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” Check out " Why does Code.org use Blockly, a visual programming language, for its intro to Computer Science course?" Robots are cool. What better way to take coding to the next level than to code a robot to drive or roll or to program a drone to fly?

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