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Cat Ears and Robot Friends: What Japan’s Educational Future Could Include

Edsurge

At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

Lectures are now scheduled events or meet-ups. Cauthen’s team is currently figuring out the logistics of shipping the giant game board to every city for the Learning Counsel regional events in 2020. They can lay their existing lesson plans end-to-end like bricks and already have the basics of personalized workflow learning.

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Listen EVERYWHERE in High School Theater Brings Clear Audio to Those with Hearing Loss

eSchool News

Assistive listening systems retailer Oreille Bionique recommended Listen EVERYWHERE , an audio over Wi-Fi assistive listening system, and provided a demo unit for the high school to test in the theater. Assistive listening systems make school assemblies, theater productions, musical presentations, and community events inclusive.”.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Drop by our Booth F302 in the expo hall at any time during the event, where we will provide insights on how to effectively manage online classroom activities, answer all your questions and showcase NEO’s newest features. Not to mention 3D printing, AR and robots! How will this work for my classroom?

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12 Projects for your STEAM program

Ask a Tech Teacher

The site includes guides for both educators and parents, extra links, and demo videos to guide students toward their goal. Robotics integrates all STEAM fields in a way no other subject can. Students get to play with robots, program them to do whatever (well, not quite ‘whatever’) they want, and call it classwork.

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3 Emerging Technologies that will Reshape Education in 2019

Edsurge

Education and cutting-edge technologies are core to the many programs at NYC Media Lab , where we lead university-corporate partnerships, communications and events. They focused on customer discovery and market validation for concepts leveraging virtual, augmented and mixed reality, voice technology, robotics, and other future interfaces.

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Innovation Lounge at Dynamic Landscape 2017

Learning With Lucie

Add that to all who presented in regular workshop sessions and you will soon realize why the 2017 Dynamic Landscape conference was an amazing event focused on authentic student voice. We had over 100 teachers and students exhibiting innovative practices for teaching and learning over the two days in the Innovation Lounge alone.