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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

Your most recent episode was about learning analytics , and listening to it reminded me that the focus of edtech folks these days is less about the tools being used and more about finding ways to improve student retention and learning. That means seeing analytics as a [supplement] to the human connection.

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Education Technology Trends for 2017: An Interview With Martin McKay.

EdTech4Beginners

I also expect to see a lot more robotics and makerspaces in schools. I think school leaders now realise that the jobs of the future are being replaced by robots and if we’re not teaching kids how to build, programme and control robots to do the things we do then they’re not going to have a great future.

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A 140-Year-Old School Partnered With a 10-Year-Old School. Here’s What Happened.

Edsurge

On the Kelvinside campus in Glasgow’s leafy West End, students from middle and high school explored swarm robotics, created biofashion and programmed augmented reality games. They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically.

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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. Robots will move so fast that you need a strobe light to see them. Robots will do everything better than us.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. So, teachers found a solution where they let the students learn about the technicalities of the topic and practice on an online virtual platform. For example, they can view the resulting solution after mixing four different chemicals together.

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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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