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Should Robots Replace Teachers?

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Last week brought one of those surprising new gadget announcements from a tech giant, with Amazon unveiling a home robot it calls Astro, a rolling contraption about the size of a small dog with a screen for a head and a cup holder so it can bring its owner a drink. He’s the author of the book, “Should Robots Replace Teachers?”

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A Very Useful Guide to Virtual Classroom Collaboration

The CoolCatTeacher

Adept at building effective processes and obtaining reliable, accurate information for business decision-making. Another friend, Jerry Blumengarten, and I have written or updated their book, “ Connecting Your Students with the Virtual World: Tools and Projects to Make Collaboration Come Alive.”

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How a Holden Caulfield Chatbot Helped My Students Develop AI Literacy

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We were wrapping up our end-of-book project for “The Catcher in the Rye,” which involved students interviewing a character chatbot designed to mimic the personality and speaking style of Holden Caulfield. But I couldn’t have predicted where his zeal for the book would lead. “I think I’m talking to Salinger. Can I ask?”

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Yes, the robots are definitely coming for the jobs of America’s 3.5 Robots may also be coming for radiologists, whose expertise diagnosing diseases through X-rays and MRIs is facing stiff competition from artificial intelligence. million cashiers. Just ask the retail workers who’ve already been displaced by automated checkout machines.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses Information. Another thing I learned is even though the course focused on grades six through 12; I work with information technology for kindergarten through 12th grade. As a result, I was able to find some excellent research on not only programming (Ricketts) but the use of robotics (Elkin). A Research Focus.

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Georgia Tech Is Trying to Keep a ChatGPT-Powered Teaching Assistant From ‘Hallucinating’

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At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. The book it cited with such confidence doesn’t exist.

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Trashbots: How Some Students Are Helping Educate the World in Robotics

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This post is about a pair of brothers and their inspiration approach to educating the world in the realm of robotics using a low-cost way that “up-cycles” existing everyday materials to build their creations. Please enjoy and share the information below so we can help these guys make their dream come true!