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Imagined futures 5: Robot teachers

Learning with 'e's

This doesn't mean that robots have no place in the classroom though. Robots (or intelligent systems) can be very useful when they are tasked to complete some of the functions that teachers previously performed. The use of artificial intelligence can even mimic some of the communication needed for large groups who are online.

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Let your robots do the marking?

Learning with 'e's

Anant Agarwal, president of EdX, (Harvard and MIT''s non-profit making arm that runs MOOCs), says that the software will be a boon to learning online in the future, because it will allow students to rewrite and resubmit their essays time and again, to improve their grades. Photo by Steve Wheeler Let your robots do the marking?

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

It has also led to the rise of new groups, called DAOs, that are experimenting with less-hierarchical ways to conduct business. If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. Some groups call themselves “learning DAOs,” organized to educate members of their communities.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Google Educator Groups (GEGs). Certification Study Groups. You should be!

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Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018

Edsurge

Students who complete this introductory course will be eligible to enroll in the more advanced Self-Driving Car or Robotics nanodegree programs. Thrun claims that “that nearly 60 students [in the former program] have already found new jobs at companies like BMW, Lockheed Martin, NIO, Volvo and Amazon Robotics.” Sorry, Peter.)

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For him, improving the speed of learning is just part of it.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

And then be super attentive to a [group of] decentralized deans, divisional leaders, chairs and individual faculty, and trusting them in the implementation. At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. We need to be thinking about that.

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