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The Education of an Android Teacher

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She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” The instructor’s strategy for training Maria Bot’s AI system mimics the three wise monkeys from the Japanese proverb: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. I am told I am a robot for good every day. Maria was evil.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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The Big 3's War Over EDU: A Comparison of Apple, Google, and Microsoft

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With that, I think it's worth taking a look at where each of the three big companies stands in regards to Ed. Apple had an event focused on education on March 27, and if anything it clarified Apple's place in the EDU market. Google users can control accounts, apps, and devices all from the same administrative panel.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

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If we continue on our current trajectory, they will come of age in a world filled with smart cities, embedded augmented reality, smart robots and revolutionary nanotech. That is because the current design of the school system is more than 100 years old. Without some major changes, we are selling snake-oil disguised as opportunity.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

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Companies are investing in immersive technologies. experiencing what it was/is like to live in another time, another place by engaging in immersive virtual field trips–a walk through the solar system, the experience of a tornado, a tour around a refugee camp, the solar system, back to ancient Rome. And, what’s in it for us?

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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The system enables users to share or swap bits of code — just as they might pass crayons to each other if they were sitting at the same crafts table — to build an online game together, create artwork or make music. Almost a decade into experiments with gamification, edtech companies are changing the way they approach motivation.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. By 2012 – yes, thanks to its hardware business – Apple’s stock had risen to the point that the company was worth a record-breaking $624 billion. John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926.

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