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In fact, the experiment at the Michigan public college could be said to mark a new generation in an area known as “ learninganalytics.” Seth Brott, a sophomore at Ferris State University majoring in information security, plans to give his robot classmates a warm welcome. How can we make that experience better for students?”
Why is STEM Training Important? Related: 5 Ways to Use LearningAnalytics in K-12 Education. An interactive STEM curriculum comprises of learning modules which test a student’s critical thinking skills. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics.
Would there even be “learninganalytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. “Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge,” The New York Times reported in October. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.)
” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! million total.
Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” ” The Business of Job Training. Apple event PR (and there’s much more in the “upgrade” section): Via The Verge : “ Apple is creating a center in Chicago where teachers can train to code.”
“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. ” [Insert Course Signals learninganalytics joke here.]. From the HR Department.
Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Course Signals. But the “spying” has continued.
Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The Spoon on robot delivery vehicles : “ Starship ’s Robots are Headed for School and Corporate Campuses.”
There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. Biases based on the training data. The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise. Biases in language and in image recognition. Biases that comes from the engineers.
” Via The New York Times : “ Navy Orders New Training After Deadly Ship Collisions.” ” Apparently watching CD-ROMs isn’t sufficient training for driving Navy destroyers. The Business of Job Training. ” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless.
The Business of Job Training and Job Placement. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.
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