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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via Getting Smart : “How Competency-Based Education Can Lead to A More Equitable Classroom.” classrooms,” Axios claims. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Will they make it happen?

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Only “1.86

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” JFC.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. “ Will AI Be The Next Big Thing In The Classroom?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Via Motherboard : “The iPhone ’s New Parental Controls Block Searches for Sex Ed , Allow Violence and Racism.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.