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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

The specific moonshot he recently set his sights on is to revolutionize the teaching of mathematics, specifically for college students who lack basic competencies to meet admission or graduation requirements. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

It gives lots of way to facilitate activities at a PTA meeting, at a school board meeting or a local chamber of commerce,” said Keith Kruger, CEO of CoSN. We’re hoping you don’t see the report as something you read once and file away, but that you start using it to really start stimulating conversation.”.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “Moving to Make Amends, Georgetown President Meets With Descendant of Slaves.” ” Via Techcrunch : “Meet Box Island , a new iOS game that aims to teach kids the fundamentals of code.” ” No, Salon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute – ERDI for short – that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Atlantic : “It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims.