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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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” And folks are looking at blog posts the student wrote for class. Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” EdX posted a blog post this week, announcing “Furthering the edX Mission, Forging a Future Path.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Activate Learning has acquired Conceptua Math.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the World Bank’s ed-tech blog : “How students in Uruguayan schools are being taught English over the Internet by teachers in Argentina – and in the UK & the Philippines.” “ How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Testing, Testing… Via Edsurge : “How to Overcome Apathy and Disillusionment When Standardized Tests Fail Kids.” Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” ” Inside Higher Ed also looks at how data is being talked about at the higher ed ed-tech event. ” asks Wired.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work.

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