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10 Myths about Teaching with Tech

Ask a Tech Teacher

No, it won’t, despite the 2009 robot who taught a Tokyo class and Elias, the Finnish primary school robot. It will be years before that can be incorporated into a robot or AI (artificial intelligence). Moodle is a great example of this. Technology will replace me.

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Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Coding platforms and robotics kits offer hands-on learning experiences, allowing students to apply programming concepts in a tangible way. Platforms like Scratch and robotics kits like LEGO Mindstorms empower students to experiment with coding and robotics, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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How Kids Really Learn

The CoolCatTeacher

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Dash and Dot robot wonder pack from Wonder Workshop Stay tuned at the end of the show for how to enter.

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A Beginner’s Guide to #EdTech Open Source Software

Fractus Learning

For example, the web browser Firefox and the Learning Management System Moodle are both open source. Using an Arduino board , you can do all kinds of physical computing, from manipulating LEDs to robotics. Examples of Open Source Software. You may be using Open Source without realizing it.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It seems to me as though this year was pretty momentous too, if for no other reason than the open source LMS Moodle – first released 15 years ago and by far the most popular LMS in the world – raised its very first round of venture capital in October. Raising venture capital isn’t (necessarily) good news.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Additionally, Blackboard Ally now supports integration with four major learning environments including Blackboard Learn, Moodle, Moodlerooms and Instructure Canvas. Wonder Workshop ( www.makewonder.com ) previewed a middle school solution that brings coding and applied robotics into the classroom.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” asks Moodle News. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Children are susceptible to peer pressure from robots,” says The Verge. (So Via Techcrunch : “This happy robot helps kids with autism.” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. ” asks Edsurge. PR gonna PR.