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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

Edsurge

The robots are coming, and some of them are charming. That was my reaction on a recent visit to Singularity University, when I met two robots named Pris and Pepper. In the US, it took 76 years for the telephone to reach half the population; the smartphone did it in less than 10 years.

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Wonderful World of Wearables in Education

The CoolCatTeacher

However, one school for emotionally and behaviorally struggling children uses an RFID system to call for help. Some even add great sound system in the ear buds. The Pokemon Go game shows characters, tokens and other parts of the game like they are part of the real world through the screen of the smartphone.

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The Education of an Android Teacher

Edsurge

As I ask Maria Bot questions, Barry taps a button on his smartphone to cue her to listen. She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” Regardless, I know Maria Bot is an “it,” not a “her,” yet Barry encourages me to engage with the robot as a sentient being. Maria was evil.

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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Can a robot be whimsical? Even more amazing, ChatGPT made some independent artistic choices. This will be kludgy and awful , I thought.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

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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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

And I think we're probably in the mid-nineties version of AI at the moment, and how it's going to how is going to benefit learning and education as a system ultimately, I guess, is for anybody's guess at the moment. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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