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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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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

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Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )! Unplugged activities introduce students to programming through exercises that can be done offline.

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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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A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement

Edsurge

When third-year students in strategy classes at BI Norwegian Business School have a question about their assignments next semester, odds are a robot will provide their answer. The chatbot addition to courses at BI next semester is part of a larger project the school is running to test out a new learning management system.

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Getting Games Right: How GlassLab Makes Products Teachers Want

Educator Innovator

The Bay Area–based nonprofit makes commercial-quality digital learning games currently used in thousands of schools. The GlassLab Teacher Network gives participating educators the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the company and share lesson plans with their peers. “We

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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Technology is key to educating the next generation

eSchool News

s Memory OS offer fun and engaging ways to improve learning skills. AI can also help kids exercise their imaginations. Opportunities for technology-enabled learning extend beyond AI. Gamified and AI-enabled tools like SayKid’s Toybot and Encoder Inc.’s