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Is Creativity a Skill?

Edsurge

Respondents to a Twitter poll leaned slightly in favor of “yes.” Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Creativity also separates us from machines or robots. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com Jaime Casap: The best creative solution usually comes from collaboration. It combines elements of both.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. “Some colleges cancel their contracts with online education provider Lynda.com after double-digit price hikes, saying the company is pricing itself out of the higher education market,” Inside Higher Ed reported in January.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Don’t mess with her on Twitter. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” ( A good thread on Twitter in response.). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. I’d love to see a comparison between Pluralsight and Lynda.com.). Upgrades and Downgrades. Via The Verge : “ OLPC ’s $100 laptop was going to change the world – then it all went wrong.” ” (Psst.