Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2017

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. At the apex of this emerging tech is a new field of sensory technology known as emotive computing.

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Classroom Robotics Industry Data 120

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2013, after watching her three-year-old daughter work through phonics exercises on an iPad, it struck Scanlon that the apps at the time often did poorly measuring oral fluency. Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise.

Exercises 66

Exercises Company Data Assessment 66

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters. And they let me.”

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

Now, technology is the new power weapon in this new era of computers and robots. Harvard Professor of Economics, David Yang, recently enlightened us about the US ranking of the top companies with the most accurate technology in facial recognition. Out of nearly 50 companies, the top five were Chinese companies.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Even though test-proctoring companies like to sell themselves as providing an exciting, new, and necessary technology, this software has a long history that's deeply intertwined with pedagogical practices and beliefs about students' dishonesty. On the other hand, robots will still administer students multiple choice tests.

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Robotics Khan Academy Software Company 63

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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. Called Differ, the LMS is a product of Edtech Foundry , an Oslo-based tech company that works with universities.

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Student Engagement LMS Robotics EdTech 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). Don’t worry, teachers.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 51

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The GlassLab Teacher Network gives participating educators the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the company and share lesson plans with their peers. “We He had his middle school students figure out the most efficient placement of SimCity school bus stops—an exercise requiring lots of trial and error.

Game-Based Learning 41

Game-Based Learning Robotics Social Media Exercises 41

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

So, this fall, the company added three new features, dubbed the “Classroom Conversation Toolset,” to let teachers pause the app classroom-wide, snap every computer to a particular screen, and cloak student identity to anonymously share answers with the entire class.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Robotics Laptops Tablets 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

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. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” In other words, as long as these companies make their money from advertising, they will have incentive to try to design products that maximize the time you spend using them, whether or not it makes your life better. . Zichermann calls this, “a robot sitting on your shoulder — the angel of your good intention.”

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Facebook Social Media Study Gamification 58

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

One of his first big takers was EPB, a big electric utility and telecommunications company in Chattanooga. The company asked STEM School Chattanooga students to design prototypes for the window dressings. In the future robots will entertain kids and help them exercise @STEMpythons #LatinFestival pic.twitter.com/JLcAd4vkOY.

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STEM Company Robotics Exercises 28

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. When we give ourselves permission to fail, we exercise selfcompassion and we unblock hidden resistances inhibiting us from trying out of the box solutions.

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System Industry Common Core Comparison 60

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI can also help kids exercise their imaginations. In recent years, we’ve seen huge growth in edtech as companies partner with educators to develop software and hardware that can support teaching and learning. Gamified and AI-enabled tools like SayKid’s Toybot and Encoder Inc.’s

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Technology Education EdTech Broadband 141

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies. So we can reorganize the bar graph. But it’s still got problems.

Technology 40

Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

But perhaps the biggest coping strategy for the move has been through daily meditation and mindfulness exercises from Headspace. This app features guided exercises that range from 10-20 minutes and that I have found helpful for centering myself and being more productive. I wrote a review of Reclaim Hosting earlier this year.

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Exercises System Software Comparison 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. The research is iffy at best.). ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope.

Technology 67

Technology Education Facebook Company 67

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Wind Up Workshop Robots Kit. The Wind Up Workshop Robots Kit is a great way for kids to exercise their creativity and enjoy playing with fun wind up toys. The kit includes five wind up toys and everything needed including stickers, wiggly eyes, cardboard robot parts and mini markers to creatively transform the robots.

Robotics 40

Robotics Training Exercises Company 40

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Having a job you wanted at your favorite company. Clubs with the opportunities to exercise hobbies and interests beyond schoolwork. The opportunity to eat, exercise, and overall have a healthy lifestyle. Imagine the world without gears; how will an egg beater, clocks, helicopters, or robotics work. Favorite Job.

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Exercises Social Media Meeting E-rate 112

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Papert, who helped develop the first programming language for children, LOGO, and its beloved Turtle robot, and who passed away earlier this year, was a visionary thinker about computers as powerful “objects to think with.” . (“We” – I mean, I was 9 in 1980, 14 when the Cyborg Manifesto was published.).

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Training Technology Conference Course 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Erika Sandstrom, who currently works with students in grades 4-8 in Massachusetts, created a custom, animated template–something she calls “ Breathing Bubbles ”–that helps her students with mindfulness and breathing exercises. This ability to personalize each exercise improved student engagement. That’s over ten hours a week.

Education 52

Education Industry Exercises Company 52

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? Tagged on: August 21, 2017 Should Professors Ban Laptops?

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EdTech Tablets Policies Data 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? Tagged on: August 21, 2017 Should Professors Ban Laptops?

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EdTech Tablets Policies Data 150

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9 .” Labor and Management.

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Education MOOC Chegg Robotics 55

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

In education, there were breaches at colleges and universities, breaches at K–12 schools, breaches at the Department of Education, breaches at education technology companies, and breaches with software schools commonly use. 77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. million students. Investing in hardware and software.

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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, the World Bank issued a report in January arguing that digital technologies – not just robots in factories – stand to widen inequalities as well, “and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.” None of this has played out equitably, as the benefits have accrued in management and not by labor.

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40