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The Education of an Android Teacher

Edsurge

She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” And when she does, the professor requests that they not ask her the question that springs so easily to people’s minds when they encounter a robot: Will you take over the world? I am told I am a robot for good every day.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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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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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of How do you do that? You gather experts.

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The Refurbishing of Artificial Intelligence

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

While I won't dare presume to be the oracle or the burning bush of artificial intelligence, I thought it might be helpful to offer my perspective on some AI trends that have caught my personal eye, and share some selected articles and tools that have emerged in the last twelve months. But a year later, some answers have emerged.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

Edsurge

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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5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news

Neo LMS

These two words have trended in the last decade as a way of describing news and information that is false. To understand this trend, it is important to realize that there is no one description of what it is. The News Comparison exercise. NASA plans to build a 4G network on the moon to help them control lunar robots.

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