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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

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Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018

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Perhaps the Silicon Valley tech billionaire should learn how to build one himself—and sign up for a class from Udacity. Udacity already offers a self-driving car nanodegree but, as its founder and former CEO Sebastian Thrun writes , it “has many prerequisites [and] is built for seasoned software engineers.”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

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MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” ” (My man here does not even know how to use the word “literally.”). The Internet was going to change everything.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

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Authentic Learning Experiences: One challenge that persists in mainstream education, although it is one the panelists say is well understood and can be solved, is how to create truly authentic learning opportunities within the bureaucracy of schools. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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