Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Learning should always come before technology. Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. In mathematics, I have seen interactive whiteboards used very effectively to teach number bonds and floor robots can be used successfully to teach geometry and algorithms. Let me elaborate.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

What's makes that perception of Microsoft fascinating is that there is a whole other segment of technology professionals who see Microsoft as being far behind. I would argue that many businesses are shifting towards Google, but it is still there. It could get there though if they keep making acquisitions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

That has a lot to do with how we design tests with technology to be more interactive and responsive to students in the same way that another student or teacher would be in the classroom.” When we think about what accountability tests are used for, it is to make comparisons," she says. "It It makes those comparisons difficult.”

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

So my comparison is somewhat invalid. Let’s stop treating kids like robots. And technology plays a huge part of it. Technology is supposed to help teachers support the learning process of each student. But I wouldn’t be convinced. Schools are supposed to offer all their students the best education. On the contrary.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It was used to great effect as early as the 1960s so that children could learn how to programme floor robots known as Turtles. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. 3D printing coding cognitive theory constructionism contructivism education learning LOGO maker spaces making programming robotics Seymour Papert Technology'

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Ozobot is a new robotic toy that is ideal for STEM and can be programmed. Ideally, it will dray comparisons to the Sphero but is different enough that any school LRC or Science teacher can whip this out for some cool educational demonstrations!!! programming robots' I highly recommend checking out Ozobot clicking here !!!

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 13, 2015

In this week's edition of Time Magazine, an article entitled One Small Step traces the recent development of humanoid robots. Exactly what is behind this anthropomorphic desire to design robots that move and look like their makers? But robots that actually walk and behave like us?

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were chosen for many reasons including the fact that we were a bunch of teachers who often embraced change, worked well together, and worked with a population that would be both excited and mature enough to handle the new technology. With student engagement and voice on the rise, I caught the technology bug and dove deeper.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Let me make sure I’m clear here – I’m interested in the “push,” in the stories we tell about machines more so than the technology underpinning the machines themselves. They’re part of our cultural imaginary as much as they are about a technological reality that we face today.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Companies are investing in immersive technologies. What are immersive technologies? We can inspire our communities to use affordable emerging technologies to create communication products and stories using AR/VR/MR. 2018) Learning Transported , International Society for Technology in Education. And, what’s in it for us?

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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. ways to improve the efficiency of passive content consumption or the improved use of low-hanging data points to make sweeping comparisons of heterogenous populations).

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

A group of recent studies on technology in education, across a wide range of real-world settings, have come up far short of a ringing endorsement. But countries that invested the most in technology for education in recent years showed “no appreciable results” in student achievement.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Neo LMS

JUNE 12, 2018

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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here are just a few AI tools that offer outcomes that would have seemed impossible for technology to achieve just a few years ago. Office of Educational Technology published " Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations." In May 2023, the U.S.

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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. 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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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. But CoCo is a departure from Scratch in a few crucial ways. This kind of collaboration doesn’t exist in Scratch or Code.org.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Technology. There have been several technologies that made my life better through this big change. So after hunting around and doing comparison reviews I purchased the 2015 Roku 2 , which is standalone, plugs into Ethernet connections and is service agnostic, which I really appreciate. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

And indeed, according to my calculations too, the amount of money invested in education technology companies is up from this time last year and up from this time in 2015 as well. Here’s a comparison of what funding looked like in Julys of previous years: What Kind of Companies Are Raising Money? billion.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or rather I’ve never believed the hype that we should put all our faith in, rest all our hope on technology. I’ve had a sinking feeling in my stomach about the future of education technology long before Americans – 26% of them, at least – selected Donald Trump as our next President.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Stackable Credentials May Not Boost Earnings,” says Campus Technology. Is advertorial content really something education technology journalism should foster? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Four floors above a dull cinder-block lobby in a nondescript building at Ohio State University, the doors of a slow-moving elevator open on an unexpectedly futuristic 10,000-square-foot laboratory bristling with technology. Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ Can Technology-augmented Academic Advising Improve College Graduation Rates? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” Via The New York Times : “Technology Used to Track Players’ Steps Now Charts Their Sleep, Too.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” From GeekWire : “For investors, the future of education technology is now the workplace.” ” Via The Washington Post : “Battle over college course material is a textbook example of technological change.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.).

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