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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Using Scratch and Picoboards to teach "x", Maths and Science - Martin Levins, Director IT What''s The Connection? Shaheen, Ph.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Coursera (online education) – $210.1

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

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Robots are coming for your job.” “Robots are coming for your job.” Robots don’t do anything they’re not programmed to do. Robots don’t just roll into the human resources department on their own accord, ready to outperform others. Robots don’t apply for jobs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." Graduate students at American University have voted to unionize.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Something something robots something something. IP concerns.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. More PR from Techcrunch : “ Nintendo is bringing Labo kits to elementary schools.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Indiana University has joined edX.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. college testing scam , to be deported.”