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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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Teacher Shortage Solutions for Computer Science and CTE

eSchool News

With increasing recognition of computer science as a fundamental skill, particularly evidenced by state standards mandating its inclusion in curricula, CoderZ offers a solution aligned with educational goals and industry demands. 00:03:22 Speaker 1 So a lot of those computer science and robotics clubs are now taking it to the next level.

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Does Emotive Computing Belong in the Classroom?

Edsurge

A rise in artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is creating a new workforce of robots, simulating human thought and transforming industries. This is not teaching robots to have emotions. At the apex of this emerging tech is a new field of sensory technology known as emotive computing.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. And on and on and on. Don’t worry, teachers.

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The Best Engineering Toys For Kids

Fractus Learning

What to Look for in STEM Toys Engineering Toys Compared Best Engineering Kits For Kids Reviewed Building Sets Circuits and Electronic Games Robot Toys. An engineering kit can be a construction set, a video game, a board game, a robot kit with coding ideas, a physics activity, or a science kit. Robot Toys. 4 robot vehicle.

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Redefining Employment: The Rise of AI and Job Markets?

Evelyn Learning

AI has indeed been advancing rapidly and is increasingly being used in various industries and job sectors. Jobs in industries such as manufacturing, customer service, data entry, and transportation are being affected as AI can perform these tasks faster and with greater accuracy.