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Teaching students specific technical skills

Neo LMS

This essentially means preparing students for a changed world of work, one where computers/ robots/ AI are increasingly able to perform human functions: the top functions likely to be taken over by data crunching learning machines are in the legal and accounting professions, as well as rote and repetitive manual tasks.

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The Refurbishing of Artificial Intelligence

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

In particular, I'm impressed with their " Course Policy Examples ," which give an instructor options and exemplars for clarifying whether AI is permissible in their class, from "No [Student] Use" at all, to "Conditional," to "Unrestricted." It has to do both, as well as follow district policies and procedures.

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

Edsurge

One Pokemon-style game they have prototyped together encourages kids to build argumentation skills by asking students to design a robot and make it stronger by building stronger arguments—adding claims and counter-claims to text on a screen. When we think about what accountability tests are used for, it is to make comparisons," she says. "It

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s pretty terrible to report on how a “ President Oprah ” would shape education policy and not talk about how she has actively promoted pseudoscience. But maybe a lot of education policy is based on pseudoscience, so that’s why we can just let that slide… Via Chalkbeat : “President Winfrey?

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

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. There are pockets of poverty in the county that rival the Delta while Starkville is, by comparison, a wealthy town,” he said.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy has thoughts on the pushback , making the comparison between Zuckerberg ’s corporate and philanthropic efforts and inBloom. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Chalkbeat : “How new evidence bolsters the case for California’s education policy rebellion.”

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

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.).