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Why Robotics Benefits Early Education

EdNews Daily

One of these new developments is the increased use of robots in everyday life––from vending machines to your automatic vacuum cleaner, all the way through to artificial intelligence and heavy machinery. But the field of robotics has more benefits for children than just teaching them about robots. .

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Here Is What the Right Tools for Mixed Reality in the Classroom Look Like

EdTech Magazine

Here Is What the Right Tools for Mixed Reality in the Classroom Look Like. In K–12, educators have found ways to use augmented and virtual reality to enhance and support deeper learning in the classroom. The future looks promising as educational technology companies rapidly build new immersive tools for the classroom. .

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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

Teacher Reboot Camp

This gives teachers the flexibility to engage all learning styles in the classroom. Understanding unplugged activities (what they are, their benefits, and how to lead them) gives teachers the ability to stretch their lessons beyond the traditional coding classroom. The robot is mimicking how a computer takes directions from code.

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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

Teacher Reboot Camp

This gives teachers the flexibility to engage all learning styles in the classroom. Understanding unplugged activities (what they are, their benefits, and how to lead them) gives teachers the ability to stretch their lessons beyond the traditional coding classroom. The robot is mimicking how a computer takes directions from code.

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Does Emotive Computing Belong in the Classroom?

Edsurge

Blank stares on a student’s face in a classroom are not uncommon. A rise in artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is creating a new workforce of robots, simulating human thought and transforming industries. This is not teaching robots to have emotions. Facial recognition to measure understanding.

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

The Hechinger Report

One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . In upstate South Carolina, automotive industries have replaced the once thriving textile mills as a dominant force in the region, paving the way for a growing demand for highly skilled workers in engineering and robotics.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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