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EdTech definitions every teacher should know: Part 1

Neo LMS

I have also situated phrases that are often incorrectly interchanged against one another for what I hope is a useful comparison. So when viewing “reality” through the camera or mobile screen, digital tools augment or add to what you see. Where possible I will define general tech terms in an educational context.

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Teaching students specific technical skills

Neo LMS

This essentially means preparing students for a changed world of work, one where computers/ robots/ AI are increasingly able to perform human functions: the top functions likely to be taken over by data crunching learning machines are in the legal and accounting professions, as well as rote and repetitive manual tasks.

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Ozobot

Technology Tidbits

Ozobot is a new robotic toy that is ideal for STEM and can be programmed. Ideally, it will dray comparisons to the Sphero but is different enough that any school LRC or Science teacher can whip this out for some cool educational demonstrations!!! That''s it, a person can also calibrate on their mobile device (i.e.

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In our own image

Learning with 'e's

In this week's edition of Time Magazine, an article entitled One Small Step traces the recent development of humanoid robots. Exactly what is behind this anthropomorphic desire to design robots that move and look like their makers? But robots that actually walk and behave like us?

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. There are pockets of poverty in the county that rival the Delta while Starkville is, by comparison, a wealthy town,” he said.

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

It’s hard to imagine not fully realizing the potential for our mobile devices as learning tools. We are artists and technologists making immersive stories for mobile 360, mobile VR and room-scale VR headsets, and building the innovative tech that makes it possible. What are immersive technologies? Grades 2 and up.

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

Hack Education

But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. And the Internet? The Internet was not invented in 1991.

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