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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

Edsurge

The two-legged, pill-shaped robot—upper half green, lower half white and small enough to stand on one’s palm—starts its lesson with a greeting. Designed for children ages 3 to 7, the robot, Roybi, aims to teach kids at home a range of early-childhood developmental skills. The company did not disclose their names.

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Cat Ears and Robot Friends: What Japan’s Educational Future Could Include

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At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

She has coached teams of students participating in the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, SeaPerch Robotics competitions, and has given presentations on coaching robotics and inquiry-based learning at the Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching (CAST) and at Dallas ISD’s STEM Expo. Twitter: @ MsJohnstonSci.

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From Robotics to Full-Ride Scholarships, How Navajo Students Beat the Odds

Edsurge

Earlier this year, participants of the FIRST world robotics competition garnered national headlines after a team of young girls from Afghanistan were denied visas to attend the event in the United States. Most of the things we built our robot with was scrap metal. It was pretty surprising.”. Because I had no clue.”.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.

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53 back-to-school tips and insights for a great year

eSchool News

However, I am hopeful that this year we will witness a renewed commitment towards providing resources, policies, and initiatives that cater to English Language Learners and promote multilingualism in schools. Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English.

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Vernier Software & Technology Offers New Activities for the mBot™ Robot to Teach Coding and Robotics

techlearning

Students can use the mBot robot and Vernier-created activities to master introductory coding and programming skills through hands-on, standards-aligned learning. “To Each mBot robot comes equipped with line-following and range-detecting sensors and 40 well-designed parts. For more information, visit [link].