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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. I think the latter."

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

00;03;53;23 – 00;04;16;21 Dan Fitzpatrick And teachers all over the world are reporting back right now that it's absolutely supercharged learning within their classrooms. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. How Do You Report Bias or Issues with AI?

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Deep learning

Learning with 'e's

She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. The blockbuster science fiction movie Minority Report featured gestural computing, targeted advertising through biometric data scanning and augmented reality technologies. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Teaching students specific technical skills

Neo LMS

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. Construction.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Credit: Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report.

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Youth Maker Spaces and Staff Development: A Letter from Thailand

Educator Innovator

Every term youth at DSIL do a course called Project where they create an object or a report through self-directed inquiry. It is developing at the same rate as maker programming in Philadelphia and at other Learning Labs. All groups were, for the most part, learning the tools as they were creating their project.