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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.

Robotics 101
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Empowering girls with STEM education to build tomorrow’s tech industry

eSchool News

Some progress has been made–for example, the number of women earning science and engineering bachelor’s degrees increased by 34 percent between 2011 and 2020–yet there’s still much ground to be made up. As a result, girls and young women have a hard time exploring the subjects and picturing themselves in related roles.

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

EdNews Daily

Examples of workflow automation in education can be illustrated by connecting disparate systems with learning objects and information routing for task completion. Teachers are still involved, but in more precise ways that free them from other onerous constraints and using more analytics.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Not to mention 3D printing, AR and robots! For example, a goal can be to: “Spend one hour less each time I grade papers by using an online grading tool”. This strategy also helps attendees save time that can be used instead for longer product demos, networking or simply for taking some reflection time in between sessions.

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My List of Top Ten Videos of 2018

User Generated Education

With examples from his own experiences and the world at large, Adam explains why the more we share, the more we have. In this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots.

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3 Emerging Technologies that will Reshape Education in 2019

Edsurge

They focused on customer discovery and market validation for concepts leveraging virtual, augmented and mixed reality, voice technology, robotics, and other future interfaces. As an example, a slide presentation on the process of photosynthesis could, with spARK, transform into an AR game.

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Maximize Reach with Top eReader Platforms for Publishers

Kitaboo on EdTech

Digital publishing platforms such as KITABOO, for example, expand digitally by combining technologies such as cloud computing, optical character recognition (OCR), robotic automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to expand digital reach. This is where eReader platforms are playing an important role.

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