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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.
PersonalizingLearning. LearningAnalytics & Adaptive Learning. LearningAnalytics & Adaptive Learning. A few reflections: many of these focus on institutional, rather than technological or personal transformation. Competing Models of Education. Keeping Education Relevant.
It will likely be achieved through a combination of learninganalytics (big data) and the evolution of personal technologies and ubiquitous computing. Previous posts in this series: 1: Telecommunications 2: Classrooms 3: Music 4: Enhanced vision 5: Robot teachers? Unported License.
Would there even be “learninganalytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalizedlearning.” It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake
“ Does tech designed to personalizelearning actually benefit students? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! Because technology imperialism. ” asks Marketplace.
Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Entrepreneur.com repeats this old story : “ Personalised learning with the help of Artificial Intelligence will change the Education System.”
” Edsurge offers “A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of PersonalizedLearning.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. There’s more robot news in the job training section above. ” Via Education Week : “ PersonalizedLearning Pilot Program Reports Gains in Literacy Scores.”
“Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. “The Growing Role of Technology in PersonalizedLearning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. IBM Watson, which has partnered with Pearson and with Sesame Street, to “personalizelearning” through data collection and data analytics.
Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of LearningAnalytics.” Reports from Edsurge Fusion : “The Future Is Always Uncertain. ” This looks primarily at Summit Public Schools, which works with Facebook to build a learning management system that folks will try to convince you is “ personalizedlearning.”
There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise. ” What happens to all the DREAMers’ data – data that they willingly handed over to the federal government?
” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The survey was conducted by learninganalytics company Civitas Learning. ” “How do children of color learn to draw themselves? ” “‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice,” says The Atlantic.
Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learninganalytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. Chatbot Instructors.
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Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalizedlearning and progressive education. Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “Are False Connections with AI Robots Putting Your Student’s Emotional Health at Risk?” ” “ A.I.
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