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Why making, coding, and online learning are the real trends to watch

eSchool News

The end of the report is stuffed with tantalizing promise about how future learners will engage with robots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and wearable tech (think data-collecting headbands, and skill-tracking sensors) that could explode into classrooms in as little as four to five years. Sometimes the panelists get it right.

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Our digital future 9: Omni-choice learning

Learning with 'e's

In the tech industry, it's already seen as a notorious element in targeted advertising , surveillance and propaganda (for example in recent elections). It will likely be achieved through a combination of learning analytics (big data) and the evolution of personal technologies and ubiquitous computing. Unported License.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). Pearson does not have a platform. .”

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

The networks of canals, for example, were built along rivers. And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. Think Wikileaks’ role in the Presidential election, for example. Railroads followed the canals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”