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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

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Understandably, there is still some hesitation at the idea of using this technology, as education professionals fear the day robots will replace teachers. Integrating AI into regular classroom curricula is no easy task. This approach allows teachers to develop proactive solutions to help at-risk students before it’s too late.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, in his classroom with students at William J. As girls who built robots, LED bracelets and tote bags, mobile apps, and websites said, “This is so much cooler than we thought.” ChickTech April 2018 Robotics Workshop held by CJ Reynolds, Grades 9–12. Palmer High School.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

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And those were mostly administrators and administrative staff, I’d say, rather than classroom teachers.) ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.” Many people told me beforehand that “investors don’t go to sessions.” They go to play golf.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

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Robots are coming for our jobs. The robots of education technology sometimes boast of their artificial intelligence, but they do not want us to think too deeply what exactly we mean when we talk about “intelligence” or how intertwined the history of “intelligence testing” is with eugenics. Montessori.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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CZI hired Bror Saxberg , whose previous work was with the for-profit online charter school K12 Inc and the for-profit college Kaplan, as its learning scientist. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. It hired former PayPal exec Peggy Abkemeier Alford as its CFO.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How a Student Got Kicked Out of Class – and Became a Conservative Hero.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via the AP : “A judge ruled Friday that school districts [in Florida ] can’t hold 3rd graders back just because they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test, saying that classroom grades and teacher evaluations have to be considered.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs. million total.