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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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Wybrant cites the North Dakota Access Pipeline as an example. As girls who built robots, LED bracelets and tote bags, mobile apps, and websites said, “This is so much cooler than we thought.” ChickTech April 2018 Robotics Workshop held by CJ Reynolds, Grades 9–12. The people who had the problem didn’t have access to solve it.”

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The Case for Learning Engineers in Education

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Take, for example: We are shifting from using motor skills to add value to the need for complex cognitive skills for almost all work. Now, robotic manufacturing systems are ever-shifting relationships between tools, people, tasks, and outcomes, and skills must rapidly evolve to keep up.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Indeed, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has paid for some of that very press coverage, funding for example “an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.”

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

Or perhaps he’s an example of what Carroll called “massification.” ” Robots are coming for our jobs. The robots of education technology boast of “machine learning,” then create frameworks and models for learning that they try to fit humans into in turn. The ghosts of broken promises.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

A fabulous example of our healthy capitalist economy working its magic. ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Roombas, for example. ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “Good Enough vs. Better Enough: The Macmillan Example.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Here’s a different example of ownership (and the surrender of ownership) of students’ stories via the Star Tribune : “Retired Minn. Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies.