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How Teachers Are Taking Lessons Learned From Virtual School Back to the Classroom

Edsurge

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to meet the needs of all learners. Using Microsoft Teams, teachers at Lone Star found ways to help relationships thrive.

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AI Tools Like ChatGPT May Reshape Teaching Materials — And Possibly Substitute Teach

Edsurge

It’s almost like the teacher is programming the robot to do their job for them.” A Swedish company called Sana Labs sells a learning-management system that promises to automatically compile courses for internal use by companies. I look at it as the future of: What if we could program it to be our substitute teacher at school?”

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Will AI really transform education?

The Hechinger Report

Margaret Price, a principal design strategist with Microsoft, mentioned a PowerPoint plug-in that provides subtitles in students’ native languages – useful for a teacher leading a class filled with young people from many different places. It enables children to use artificial intelligence to train and build robots. Subscribe today!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” ” Can people please read Seymour Papert before launching their learn-to-code product and/or writing PR for it? There hadn’t been any education IPOs this year until China Online Education Group ’s this week.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Microsoft had a media event this week. Via The New York Times : “Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom.” Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products.

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