Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In a popular Wired article titled, The Next Big Blue-Collar Job is Coding , Thompson criticizes pop culture and some writers, like himself, for overly romanticizing the notion of the ‘lone genius coder’—the Mark Zuckerbergs and Mr. Robots of the world—saying that’s not what every coder looks like and that's not what many coders will be.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. But the DOJ could hold Starkville accountable for student achievement gaps — on test scores, for example, or graduation rates — if it wanted to.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here are a few recent examples: Carnegie Learning has launched several AI tools to help students and teachers. Again, while applying AI to IEP creation is a very specific use case example, it illustrates the general need for educators to practice discernment. at least approaching it with cautious optimism.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Herrera F, Bailenson J, Weisz E, Ogle E, Zaki J (2018) Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking. Can robots write our papers, especially when they are able to learn and master our writing styles? Contemporary Issues In Technology & Teacher Education , 8 (3), 278-282.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

As one educator writes about their experience with the tool, there are no individual user profiles, no way to collect likes and no followers — basically, no emphasis on comparison. If you want to, for example, challenge your friends to a game, you need to answer five questions correctly,” says Dexter.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. There often are competing claims as to who invented a technology and when, for example, and there are early prototypes that may or may not “count.” Here’s IBM’s marketing pitch, for example: Every day, we create 2.5

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Neo LMS

JULY 26, 2022

The News Comparison exercise. You can find plenty of other examples online. NASA plans to build a 4G network on the moon to help them control lunar robots. Scholars have published articles about fake news in recent years, examples include Apuke and Omar (2021), Tsfati et al. Mindtools also provide some useful examples.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

Here’s a comparison of what funding looked like in Julys of previous years: What Kind of Companies Are Raising Money? MakeBlock (robotics) – $30 million. Companies that were actively acquiring startups in previous years – Blackboard, Pearson, and PowerSchool for example – have not bought any startups this year.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The networks of canals, for example, were built along rivers. And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. Think Wikileaks’ role in the Presidential election, for example. Railroads followed the canals.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Verge : “ Aflac ’s toy robot for kids facing cancer is the smartest toy of all.” ” Oh look. Private city. Or something like that.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

.” Via The Washington Post : “Battle over college course material is a textbook example of technological change.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” I’d love to see a comparison between Pluralsight and Lynda.com.). ” (Psst.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.).

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