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2021 Reflections: Looking Back and Harnessing Powerful Possibilities

Digital Promise

As we approach the end of 2021, we at Digital Promise also wanted to reflect on the year that was. Below, Digital Promise staff share reflections, lessons, and learnings from 2021 and offer hopes for education in the new year. How 2021 has changed the way we view our role in education. What has inspired us over the past year. ??Juliana

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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021. Recently, I shared 21 Hot Topics for Teacher Professional Development for Summer 2021. Tennille Johnston is an award-winning science teacher in Texas who is speaking out about what really happened this school year.

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Hour of Code? Here’s why to participate

Ask a Tech Teacher

December 6-12th, 2021, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Looking for a Class Robot? Scratch Jr.

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How Teachers Are Talking About AI in Education

The CoolCatTeacher

Children and robots (concerns of misrepresentation of a robot). In a 2012 study about children’s social and moral relationship with a humanoid robot, 9, 12, and 15 year olds interacted with a humanoid robot named Robovie. At the end of the session, against Robovie’s objections, the robot was put into a closet.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

From July through December 2021, I took Teaching Computer Science in Grades 6-12 from Advancement Courses for my three hours of college credit required by my certification organization. . As a result, I was able to find some excellent research on not only programming (Ricketts) but the use of robotics (Elkin). Course Background.

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Books I read in December 2021

Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in December 2021… Difference Making at the Heart of Learning , Tom Vander Ark & Emily Liebtag (education). Rise of the Robots , Martin Ford (economy). TOTAL FOR 2021 = 90 books. Books I read in May 2021. The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It , Robert Reich (economy).

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Meet the maker: High school student develops robot guide dogs

eSchool News

High school student Selin Alara Ornek is looking ahead–using machine learning and the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to create robot guide dogs for the visually impaired. She’s a self-taught robotics developer–in building IC4U, she used the Jetson Developer Kit as a sandbox to explore and experiment.

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