article thumbnail

Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

EdTech Magazine

Understandably, there is still some hesitation at the idea of using this technology, as education professionals fear the day robots will replace teachers. Small and mid-sized districts tend to be the most facile and can move forward quicker,” says Alex Kaplan, global sales leader of IBM Watson Education. “A

Kaplan 329
article thumbnail

Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

Edsurge

In the industrial manufacturing sector, “there is obviously unfilled demand, and I’m a believer that robotics and AI will materially change the nature of work over the next decade,” Mark Cuban said in an email. Taylor, he believes, “has proven experience enabling marketplaces and matching supply and demand.”

Industry 117
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality.

Udemy 129
article thumbnail

Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

techlearning

As girls who built robots, LED bracelets and tote bags, mobile apps, and websites said, “This is so much cooler than we thought.” ChickTech April 2018 Robotics Workshop held by CJ Reynolds, Grades 9–12. We used the blog post for PD for teachers from two different districts,” says Rebecca Kaplan, instructor at CU Boulder. “I

article thumbnail

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.” I heard the former CEO of Kaplan say “hundreds if not thousands of colleges will close in the coming years.” .” “Society is evolving at a faster and faster rate.”

Kaplan 58
article thumbnail

The Case for Learning Engineers in Education

Edsurge

Now, robotic manufacturing systems are ever-shifting relationships between tools, people, tasks, and outcomes, and skills must rapidly evolve to keep up. Bror Saxberg is Chief Learning Officer of Kaplan Inc. More tasks and decisions are moving to where the expertise is, and where costs are lower.

article thumbnail

(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

Robots are coming for our jobs. The robots of education technology sometimes boast of their artificial intelligence, but they do not want us to think too deeply what exactly we mean when we talk about “intelligence” or how intertwined the history of “intelligence testing” is with eugenics. Montessori.