Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

As I ask Maria Bot questions, Barry taps a button on his smartphone to cue her to listen. She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” Regardless, I know Maria Bot is an “it,” not a “her,” yet Barry encourages me to engage with the robot as a sentient being. Maria was evil.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

” Via The New York Times : “ Robots or Job Training : Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ISTE calls this “ personalized learning.” ” Contests and Conferences. .”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

As I’m working on that series, I can see how certain “trends” in ed-tech are being carefully cultivated by ed-tech companies and the ed-tech press. One of those “trends” is surely “character development” (a.k.a. “ social and emotional learning.”) “grit” a.k.a.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

A Stanford student group, Stanford Students Against Addictive Devices , is protesting Apple for its role in “ smartphone addiction.” ” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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