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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

Edsurge

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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“We expect innovation in every organization except for the one we work in.”

The Principal of Change

When they handed me their iPhone, I realized that it was an iPhone 4, and confirmed that with them. Compared to my iPhone 7, it seemed so small, and to be honest, quite slow. When the iPhone 4 came out, I believe it was the first version of the phone that had cameras on both sides. It would also be my first iPhone.

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What types of questions are you asking?

The Principal of Change

What “iPhone Keyboarding” class did they take to learn that? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Think about it…Have you ever seen anyone in their teens on a mobile device, furiously typing away? You know the answer…they didn’t. They learned on their own.

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3 Misconceptions About Innovation in Education

The Principal of Change

Innovation is solely a “product” People believe the iPhone was innovative. Yet it is the thinking that created the iPhone in the first place that was the innovation. This is not something that should be done by the few but should be the norm in school. It is in some ways.

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Do it yourself education

Learning with 'e's

With its lurid red cover and aggressive image of a fist gripping a pencil (I would have suggested an iPod Touch or iPhone instead) while wearing a wrist band that proclaims DIY U, the books holds a lot of promise. It's a book that has been recommended to me several times over, so it was long overdue that I laid my hands on a copy.

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The Power, Promise, and Pitfalls of Networks in Learning – Alec Couros Kicks of #ettipad San Diego

EdTechTeacher

One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. ” – Seymour Papert He then compares iPhone to a lightbulb. He then showed the number of people who either extolled the spoof or fell for it and then fried their iPhones. He has always been a fan of Open Educational Resources.

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If we know better, we have to do better. #IMMOOC

The Principal of Change

Look at the new iPhone 7. But compare it to when the first iPhone came out and some people were saying it was one of the best inventions of that year (2007). September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Not necessarily now. People are complaining that it is not forward thinking enough , and I get that.

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