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This Tech Tool Can Save Teachers 10 Minutes Per Class

Edsurge

Laurence’s College in Brisbane had just 50 minutes to write up a formative assessment on the representation of robots and artificial intelligence in the movies. Because Vivi works with any device or platform, Gunn’s students are free to use their Apple laptops, Chrome tablets or Android smartphones.

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CES2017 Best of Show Tech Tools

EdTechTeam

At about half the price of Mindstorms Kits , you can build and code interactive, motorized robots, models and creations with distance, color and tilt sensor technologies with this new kit. While Ozobot is not new to the “easy programmable robot” scene, this little guy brings new features we hadn’t seen in the Ozobot family.

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Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Their work can be seen in The New York Times, NPR and in their own iOS/Android app. High School-Southern Tioga School District (Pennsylvania, United States) CLASS: Connected Learning Activities through Social Service by Abhijith K.S. Grade: 9th - St. He is the recipient of SPJ’s 2015 Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Google's Family Link unlocks Android for kids | CNET → "We don't want kids thinking Google has built spyware.," " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma. There is reason to wonder, nonetheless. That's a lot of computers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Chatbot Instructors.

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