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Robots Won’t Replace Instructors, 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Instead, They’ll Help Them Be ‘More Human.’

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BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. More Human’ Another idea Bowen and Sparrow are working on right now is how to use AI to evaluate audio recordings of classroom lectures to provide feedback to instructors.

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What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

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The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. Timothy Powell, an ethnographer at the University of Pennsylvania, introduced a project to link digital humanities work and Native American communities.

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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). Solvable Challenges (“Those that we understand and know how to solve”) include “Authentic Learning Experiences” and “Improving Digital Literacy.” We can solve these.

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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). Solvable Challenges (“Those that we understand and know how to solve”) include “Authentic Learning Experiences” and “Improving Digital Literacy.” We can solve these.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Using Makerspaces to Support Personalized Learning

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They had a bee robot that they learned to program to better understand bee behaviors. During her time in the makerspace, she learned how to design and create keychains to sell at local veterinarians’ offices and at fundraisers. For instance, students didn’t just research information about bees online. Supporting school activities: St.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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My high hope: Why not show students how to create with VR and AR? I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. Office of Education Technology launched GoOpen last year, OERs have gotten a big boost. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own?

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