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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom. It starts with a game of Robot Turtles, a board game by Thinkfun that’s being used at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Ill., Within HWS and District 36’s other four schools, this is the first step of a journey that will touch on coding and robotics at each grade level.

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K–12 Experts Weigh In on Training Teachers to Use Education Technology

EdTech Magazine

A recent PwC report notes that of 2,000 K–12 teachers surveyed, only 10 percent reported feeling secure in their ability to incorporate “higher-level” technology into their classrooms, highlighting a need for quality training programs to develop teachers’ skills with emerging tech. Let teachers lead the way.

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Empowering Teachers and Inspiring Students for a STEM-Driven Future

Edsurge

The positive impact of teachers has been extensively substantiated through years of research highlighting that teacher effectiveness is the most important school-based factor related to student achievement and outcomes. I wouldn’t have learned robotics. I would’ve not liked coding. I would’ve not discovered something I really love.”

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

We know that facial recognition software struggles to identify people of color, and there have been reports from students of color that the proctoring software has demanded they move into more well-lit rooms or shine more light on their faces during the exam. That robot grading is degrading. I believe that firmly.

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2021 Reflections: Looking Back and Harnessing Powerful Possibilities

Digital Promise

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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The importance of agency in successful edtech adoptions

eSchool News

As educators introduce new technologies in their classrooms, successful adoption and improvements to student outcomes will hinge on thoughtful strategies and intent to embrace change. The technology should augment what the teachers are already doing in the classroom and amplify their impact on student learning outcomes.

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The race is on for the AI-powered classroom

Neo LMS

According to a 2018 research report , AI-based technologies are primed to grow within the edtech market by just under 47%. Software today leverages deep learning to assemble custom textbooks, that adapt to teaching methods, class-types and learning outcomes. Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

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