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

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The iPad was going to change everything. MOOCs were going to change everything. But Watson is not remotely close to the “artificial intelligence” that the company, and the industry more broadly, likes to tout. (A Virtual reality was going to change everything. The Internet was going to change everything.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). Students will receive iPads.

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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. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. The quotation is from 2012. So it is predicted.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

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A description of a learning environment where there is one “screen” for each student (whether an iPad, laptop, etc.). There is some thought that a certain percentage of instruction must be digital to qualify as “blended learning,” but there is no clear industry standard. Activity-Based Learning. ” (3).

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

. $245 registration fee Wednesday, March 12th at 9am at Montclair State University, NJ Common Sense Media - Teaching Digital Citizenship in an iPad Classroom , If you have iPads, you know that teaching digital citizenship is more important than ever. Curated content: The Best of the Week. What do you think? Share them here.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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When we asked what they liked about Versal, the first thing they said is their students live on their devices — they live on the iPads and so on — and this for the first time allows them to create really cool interactive content for them and really speak the same language that these students are geared now to speak.

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