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Is Creativity a Skill?

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Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Creativity also separates us from machines or robots. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com Jaime Casap: The best creative solution usually comes from collaboration. so it has to incorporate types of teaching that go beyond the classroom.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. Google extended the availability of its pseudo-LMS, Classroom, to those without G Suite for Education accounts in April.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” Robots might not take your job.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“The ‘poor man’s MBA’ can boost salaries by 20%,” says CNN in a puff piece about LinkedIn , Lynda.com , and project management certificates. Google boasts that “New Google Classroom features make it easier to learn, teach, manage and build” – that is, by adding notifications and metrics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I think we all know the answer to that question: so that people always have fodder to write these sorts of op-eds, debating the advantages and disadvantages of calculators in the classroom. “Could robots be marking your homework ?” ” asks the BBC. ” The Business of Ed-Tech. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.