Evelyn Learning

JUNE 22, 2023

For example, jobs in manufacturing, data entry, customer service, and transportation are being affected by AI and automation technologies. Jobs in industries such as manufacturing, customer service, data entry, and transportation are being affected as AI can perform these tasks faster and with greater accuracy.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). Don’t worry, teachers. I’m done.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

THE BRIGHTBYTES LEARNING OUTCOMES MODULE ( WWW.BRIGHTBYTES.NET ) The Learning Outcomes module captures millions of data points from any digital device usage, and triangulates it with district investment data and student achievement data. They also liked its teacher dashboard and software interfaces.

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Bryan Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Garter invites us to imagine these developments, assuming AI and intelligent software just keeps getting better: By 2018, 20 percent of business content will be authored by machines. By 2020, autonomous software agents outside of human control will participate in five percent of all economic transactions. 2: Internet of Things.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

9:00am OPENING KEYNOTE: Mamadou Diallo - The Young Hackers 10:00am "The Science of Small": An Introduction to Nanotechnology - Dallin Harper, junior Benefits of social media in EFL classrooms - Quratulain Hussain Oh Snap! Times are US-EST, see the schedule for your own time zone and any updates.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d You can find more data about “the business of ed-tech” – from 2017 and from previous years – on funding.hackeducation.com.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 22, 2020

Schools and Districts responded to this year’s national Survey, which collects data to rate schools and mark national trends in how digital transitions are occurring, primarily from a lens of software sophistication, devices and network infrastructure. Social-emotional needs of students is now cited as the number one pressure point. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

So many headlines focus on automation, robots, artificial intelligence, and the looming loss of jobs. But these behaviors are symptomatic of something more than a simple lack of software-specific training and “skills gaps.”. These data tend to be confirmed by adult educators.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. But the data is flawed. Buying hardware and buying software does not make you or your students or your institutions forward-thinking. quintillion bytes of data – so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He’s written eight top-selling books in China and has more than 50 million followers on social media. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. I mean more that in a single task, with a huge amount of training data, AI is beating humans by unbelievable proportions. Lee: Because of AI super-performance.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. Essentially, when wetware (biological entity) meets hardware, the software can be interoperable. He sees Facebook and other social networks undermining and devaluing friendships. iThink not.

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Smartphone Robotics Social Media Analysis 55

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Educational apps and interactive software engage students, making learning enjoyable and accessible. Coding programs and robotics kits introduce hands-on learning, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for the future. This includes technologies like project management software and communication platforms.

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Technology Khan Academy Adaptive Learning Learning 52

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The budget bill President Trump signed Friday fixes a technical problem for private scholarship providers that rely on federal student aid data to help students pay for college.” Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. ” Via Campus Technology : “ NYC Data Science Academy Launches Online Bootcamp.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The reading software-maker has raised $3.2

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Spoiler alert: nothing.

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Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. ” More data on military enrollment in for-profits in the “research” section below. “The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… Via Education Week (from last Friday – as I work on the week’s round-up of news, I try to avoid looking at social media, but I think there was another school shooting this morning): “10 Dead, Most of Them Students, and 10 Wounded in Texas High School Shooting.” million total.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

“New data, published by the Office for National Statistics and based on recently created exit checks at Britain’s borders, showed just 4,600 overstayed their visa last year. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too,” says Campus Technology.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. “Unizin Adds Student Writing Data to its Data Platform for a Clearer Portrait of Learner Success,” says the Campus Technology headline. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Computer Science For All.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means. “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. classrooms: An army of robots to help autistic students learn social skills.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Via Edsurge : “With a Year of Crisis Text Line Data, California Community Colleges Launch Mental Health Program.” The company: RIB Software SE.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” Via The Tennessean : “ Belmont University ousted a student Tuesday after he made a social media post using the N-word to describe black NFL football players, who he said needed a ‘bullet in their head.’” Heckuva job.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

I hope none of these programs are teaching “data science,” because this is just a silly claim based on bad data. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Kids connect with robot reading partners ,” says the PR office of the University of Wisconsin Madison. Good grief. Even worse?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

And more online education news in the “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines” section and in the research and data section below. ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. ” The Atlantic on what it’s like being a parent of a social media star.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software.

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