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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim's class "Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies." I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. Here's a bit of what I said.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your Google accounts. SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. Badging Systems. Book Study/Lit Circles.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Decentralized Systems Fans of cryptocurrency and Web3 champion the idea of decentralization—freeing commerce and other activities from government oversight and regulation.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

In it, it would say, “It will harden the education system against things like public national disasters, epidemics,” and so forth. I think from now on you will see much more awareness on the part of educational institutions that say, “Hey, you know, we do need to have our system hardened.” We need to be thinking about that.

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