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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. If it's a facsimile, then interaction is entirely dependent on the instructions (programming) behind the robot.

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

Edsurge

The paper describes an experiment in which college students, some male and some female, each watched a short online slide presentation narrated by a computer-generated voice. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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MIT’s Mitch Resnick on What ‘Toy Story’ Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

Edsurge

His room is presented in horror-movie fashion, with dim lighting and discordant music, and the toys are all in pieces, as Sid dismantles them and remakes them in his own crazy way. It feels more like an inventor's workshop, but Sid's room is presented very sinister like. He's a real inventor.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Educators could share notes, links to presentations, and continue to collaborate beyond the conference or workshop. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). What about a Student Council Class within Google Classroom?

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning. 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. But we’re not caught up to that now.

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