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How This Famed Chinese Venture Capitalist Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching

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He’s written eight top-selling books in China and has more than 50 million followers on social media. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. If you think about Khan Academy, you know what an amazing teacher can do, compared to regular teachers. Why do you think that’s going to happen?

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What Technology Helps Students Learn?

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Examples of technologies that improve student learning include adaptive learning platforms like Khan Academy, offering personalized instruction. Coding programs and robotics kits introduce hands-on learning, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for the future.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.” Upgrades and Downgrades. Sounds like fun.

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tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” Via The Tennessean : “ Belmont University ousted a student Tuesday after he made a social media post using the N-word to describe black NFL football players, who he said needed a ‘bullet in their head.’” Heckuva job.

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” From the Khan Academy blog : “School district reports test scores rise with mastery learning on Khan Academy.” “ Could Monitoring Students on Social Media Stop the Next School Shooting? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks The New York Times. ” Oh.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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