Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. About 10 years ago, when big-name colleges were rushing to put out free online courses known as MOOCs, some proponents considered having Hollywood celebrities deliver them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– 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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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The technology that tracks digital records has spurred a cryptocurrency gold rush and an NFT explosion. New technology could push these questions further by offering people more alternatives to institutions of all kinds. If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. What about a Student Council Class within Google Classroom?

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

New technologies revamped foreign language learning, in this article we highlight out what to expect in the upcoming years. Chatting with robots. What if the teachers from the future are robots! When we talk about the future, we often think of robots, and in the case of foreign language learning, this may well become a reality.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

But another big takeaway from this experience has been that learning innovation isn’t about the technology. At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. It started with technical advice, like how do I use Zoom? That’s where the focus is right now.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We have sort of advanced technology mixed together with very low technology—all sorts of building things for people to be able to constantly prototype and try things out. In our design of Scratch and other technologies, we put a lot of focus on wide walls. We weren't very satisfied with what we saw in the early MOOCs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Students who complete this introductory course will be eligible to enroll in the more advanced Self-Driving Car or Robotics nanodegree programs. Thrun claims that “that nearly 60 students [in the former program] have already found new jobs at companies like BMW, Lockheed Martin, NIO, Volvo and Amazon Robotics.”

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. Small Steps When providing technology integration support, I often tell teachers to pick one way or one thing to do with the technology in the classroom or a lesson and focus on that.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” 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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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 27, 2013

All of it from Biology to Robotics to Space exploration!" School Technology Leadership - "This is an open space for anyone who''s interested in effective technology leadership in P-12 schools. MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses. "A Science on G+ - "About Science! 30557, 1/27/13) 6. 633, 1/27/13) 7. 235, 1/27/13) 9.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

MOOCs get social. Carolyn Rosé, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has been exploring ways to add social engagement to MOOCs since 2013. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. Lindsey Downes reminded us to, “Bring questions and encourage discussions about emerging technologies in all types of classes (not just computer science). The result can be jarring.”

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

” The idea, though, that the kids had separated from technology was ridiculous as Justin shows a YouTube video on how to make a rainbow loom starbust bracelet that has been viewed over 30 million times! As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. Consider the 3.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference, "Emerging Technology," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. Stories about the future of education – particularly a future that is a more market-oriented, technological endeavor – are ubiquitous. They are relayed by influential storytellers.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. What about a Student Council Class within Google Classroom?

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

These technologies are all beginning to play roles in our digital lives and will grow in significance in the future. But have you heard of cognitive technology? Cognitive technologies can be defined as artificial intelligence tools that perform tasks that were once the sole preserve of humans. Unported License.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. Trends affecting the adoption of technology in schools. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition). CHALLENGES.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

School Psychology Doctoral Candidate and Intern, CEO STEMx: Stemulating Teaching with Emerging Technology Methodologies - Simulation vs. Virtual Learning Environments - Dr. Nicole Simon, Assistant Professor Engineering/Physics/Technology Dept.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

Harvard’s 1,000 Kilobot swarm demonstrates the future of robotics 50 apps for the new school year Using Design Thinking to Create a School from Scratch Is This The School Library Of The Future? Mix Up Your Classroom Library. Mix Up Your Classroom Library. Do your students seem bored with their reading options?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

” He continued – and I think this is so very revealing about the goals of much of this push for technological reform, “I should say that on the average we get about two percent efficiency out of schoolbooks as they are written today. MOOCs were going to change everything. The Internet was going to change everything.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” There were discussions of using MOOCs on liberal arts campuses and developing distance learning programs for outreach or to make up for enrollment shortfalls.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. Sunday, March 2nd at 1pm CoSN - Wisconsin CTO Clinic , Join the Wisconsin Educational Technology Leaders (WETL) and CoSN for their first Annual CTO Clinic! Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. Learn more here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Eleanor Roosevelt The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. For 20 years, the NMC and its members have dedicated themselves to exploring and developing potential applications of emerging technologies for learning, research, and creative inquiry.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Campus Technology : “Recipients of 2018 McGraw Prize in Education Revealed.” Because technology imperialism. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. He also happens to be the co-founder of Coursera itself, and it was his Stanford course on machine learning that helped launch the MOOC craze in the first place. million enrollments. (It

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives. It’s not an ed-tech story per se.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. The technology simply isn’t that good yet.

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