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Robot Teachers vs Human Teachers:

Ask a Tech Teacher

Simona Johnes, editor-in-chief of Science and Literacy , an educational blog for teachers and parents, did some research into a topic that is of growing concern to my fellow teachers: Robots in the classrom. Here’s an interesting article comparing the pros and cons of robots vs. humans: . 5 pros of a robot teacher.

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Top 5 Game Development Platforms for Young Coders

Ask a Tech Teacher

Kids can build games, animate stories, and even learn robotics or Minecraft modding. Below is a comparison table to help you decide which platform might be the best fit for your young coder based on their interests, experience, and learning objectives. What if coding could be that fun? Well, it absolutely can be!

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What Students Learned When They Made Robotics Relevant to Their Lives

Edsurge

A few years ago, toward the beginning of my journey into robotics, I mentored a team for a local competition. We were on our way to building a Tetrix Prime robot from a kit, when the unimaginable happened—our team’s laptops went missing—and with them, all of our code and design work. Ones that aren’t toys?”

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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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AI in the classroom: Are we there yet?

Neo LMS

In his BETT talk , Joel Hellermark, founder of Sana technologies of Sweden, and all-round AI-prodigy, (not to be ageist but at 22, his approach, clear insight and success is quite astounding), defines machine learning via neural networks using a simple comparison: Deep Blue versus AlphaGo.

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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, with apologies to our regular readers, who no doubt have mastered the EdTech shorthand and specific phrases, let’s develop a quick terminology with the help of key and quality online sources.

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PROOF POINTS: Teens are looking to AI for information and answers, two surveys show

The Hechinger Report

Teens are telling us I have questions that are easier to ask robots than people,” said Weinstein. Forty-nine percent of college undergraduates also said they were using ChatGPT every week for school but there was no comparison data from 2023.

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