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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

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And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Maybe it will.).

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” 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. Only “1.86

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Apple Investors Warn iPhones and Other Technology May Be Hurting Children.” It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.