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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

Edsurge

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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Friday 5 — 10.7.2016

Perry Hewitt

You might be embarrassed to try a new French word with a colleague, but a robot won't judge. Photographers, iPhone 7 users, and anyone interested in understanding how the computing power informs the camera in your pocket should read this. Not yet, anyway. This is rather nice. Sign up for a weekly email.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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The One Present I Wish Parents Would Give My Students

The CoolCatTeacher

For his birthday, his parents helped him upgrade to an iPhone 7 because of the camera quality. Hands-on makers might like robots, a subscription to Make Magazine, or something to build. However, with her ability for organizing things, she’s our Production Manager. The third student loves editing film.

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Technology Integration in a 21st Century Science Classroom

EdTechTeam

This allows the students an even greater chance to identify trends, errors, and anomalous data. In the end, the students can quickly and easily see trends with their digital tools that they often overlook when recording data by hand. . The interface connects to a computer, Chromebook, iPad/iPhone and Android devices.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of How do you do that? You gather experts.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

launch of Be a Maker, an all-new mobile application that teaches children how to code by allowing them to program their Jibo robot. Children ages 7-12 can use the Be a Maker app to create customized programs for their Jibo robot to perform, including speech and expressions. JIBO BE A MAKER APP ( www.jibo.com ) Jibo, Inc. K-12 market.

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