Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Kahoot adds the ability to create and host quizzes and other content from its mobile app. UBTECH Robotics introduces a new robotics kit and curriculum, UKIT, and Yanshee, a robot with an AI interface with a programmable Raspberry Pi. SMART also releases a new whitepaper based on a survey with nearly 500 educators.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards. This is real and earned.”.

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Perry Hewitt

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A survey of >4,000 designers revealed the most commonly used design tools , from brainstorming to wireframing to project management. Web platform solutions for website or mobile apps are notoriously hard to propagate in a world where people gravitate toward the bespoke. Weekend fun: Worried about our robotic drone overlords?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

But if we look at the survey results of the Pew Research Center, students in the U.S. According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This story about robots and jobs was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Yes, the robots are definitely coming for the jobs of America’s 3.5 Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2016. Sign up for our newsletter. million cashiers.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

Automation technologies may widen these disparities at a time when workforce mobility is at historic lows. Not a good idea, it seems: geographic mobility in the United States has eroded to historically low levels. Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

Automation technologies may widen these disparities at a time when workforce mobility is at historic lows. Not a good idea, it seems: geographic mobility in the United States has eroded to historically low levels. Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2017

classrooms and is becoming an increasingly popular choice for computers, while Apple’s iOS platform holds the lead on mobile devices, according to a new survey from game-based learning provider Kahoot! K-12 education in the first quarter of 2017, and iOS claimed 73 percent of the mobile market–up from 70 percent in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Within a year, the Fab Lab facilitators hope to have collected and analyzed enough data via surveys, observations and interviews to guide Fab Lab improvements and start sharing lessons learned. Some places aren’t waiting on the research, however.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. E-commerce purchases of all types have surged.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 29, 2024

Such software leverages several technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), robotic automation, and cloud computing, to create innovative interactive learning models designed to boost learning effectiveness among learners.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. Over the summer, the administration worked round the clock to create more classrooms and add mobile buildings.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). But participants were very, very engaged from the start.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line. But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2016

Close to half (46 percent) of K-12 and higher-ed IT leaders in a recent survey said they believe an Internet of Things smart school — a school using Internet of Things devices to transform learning environments — will have a major impact in the next one to two years. Other concerns include privacy, interoperability, and cost.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

” Nominee: Dr. Nick Migliorino , Norman Public Schools Nominated by: Rave Mobile Safety. In Florida, FLVS saw success through state testing results and surveys. In the wake of the tragedy in Uvalde, TX earlier this year, school administrators across the nation began assessing ways to protect students.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 15, 2016

First, here’s an account of an Israeli-American robot designed to teach children. Tega also integrates with mobile phones (presumably parents’, since the students are very young, 3-5 years). In Boston, home of the Atlas robot. Notice the lack of robot-fear among children. How should higher ed prepare?But

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” “ Skidos offers an SDK to turn mobile games into ‘learning apps’,” says Techcrunch , really underscoring how Silicon Valley believes anything can be easily turned into “ed-tech.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” ” asks Dhawal Shah , founder of the site Class Central. Lumen Learning has raised $3.75

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Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." ” Spoiler alert: humans.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Education Week : “Risky Practices With Students’ Data Security Are Common, Survey Suggests.” Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Via Google’s press release : “ Google and Bertelsmann launch mobile digital skills initiatives with Udacity – 10,000 Android scholarships available for EU developers.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Primo Toys rolls out Cubetto, a wooden robot that teaches kids to code.”

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The company provides “interactive lessons and content on a mobile platform to low-skilled workers.” Via Edsurge : “New Survey: Students See Anxiety and Time Management Among Top Challenges to Finishing Degrees.” Cell-Ed has raised $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers. It’s perhaps not surprising.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. ” “Live instruction” is not teachers; it is content delivery via a mobile device.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” ” Learn-to-code toy Ozobots is launching Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy branded robots. .” The mobile app maker has raised $11.9 No neoliberalism here.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

“Engagement” app Check I’m Here has raised $1 million in Series A funding from Jeffrey Vinik, Ronald Schlosser, and 500 Mobile Collective. ” It would be great if there were independent evaluations of bootcamps, not just this self-reported survey stuff. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But rah rah rah!

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Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. .” There’s more “research” (or at least a write-up of a survey) on student loan debt in “the business of financial aid” section above.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Chatbot Instructors.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

” Apparently the FAFSA will soon be available on mobile devices. ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” There’s some robot news in the privacy section below. ” Predictions!

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Guardian : “‘This is awful’: robot can keep children occupied for hours without supervision.” ” There’s another robot story this week but since the headline was in the form of a question, it’s not in this section. .”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Survey of voting bloc that favored Trump finds skepticism about value of higher education.” If the bill passes, low-income Americans would no longer be able to use $9.25

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” ” The New York Times reports that “ Burundi Robotics Team Vanishes After U.S. Via KQED’s Mindshift : “ MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity.” Competition.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Our data and analytics are very high in teacher surveys on what they like,” Gist says. “We

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Education Week : “Thousands of Android Mobile Apps Improperly Track Children, Study Says.” .” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app. Via Wired : “Ex-Google Executive Opens a School for AI , With China ’s Help.”

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