Robots and Related Tech Play a Role in Advancing Curricula
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 30, 2017
By Eric Walter Some experts look to AI and robotics as the teaching tools of the future.
Check out… Robotical!
EdTech4Beginners
JULY 28, 2022
I’ve researched and tested a lot of EdTech tools and for me Marty the Robot is an integrated STEM solution that covers all bases. What you might not think is that children, even these days, are pretty traditional in their views of how a robot should look. Robotical’s quick-start guide explains the set-up process in clear, easy steps.
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Should Robots Replace Teachers?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Last week brought one of those surprising new gadget announcements from a tech giant, with Amazon unveiling a home robot it calls Astro, a rolling contraption about the size of a small dog with a screen for a head and a cup holder so it can bring its owner a drink. He’s the author of the book, “Should Robots Replace Teachers?”
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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university
Neo LMS
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The same gamification principle counts for many other subjects and the corresponding mobile apps, making this learning strategy universal. Robot teachers. The idea of a robot teacher may seem like a too futuristic concept at the moment, but it’s really an ongoing project in many schools and colleges worldwide. Online learning.
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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 22, 2020
eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade. Credit: eLearn.fyi.
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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)
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K–12 Experts Weigh In on Training Teachers to Use Education Technology
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Any professional development plan needs to focus on encouraging and enabling a basic and sustained change in how teachers view teaching and learning, says Amy Valentine, executive director of the Foundation for Blended and Online Learning. Three Steps to a Successful Technology Integration Plan. by Heather B.
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Robot Students? College Classrooms Try Letting Far-Away Students Attend Via Remote-Control Stand-In
Edsurge
MAY 11, 2017
It’s an age-old classroom scene, except for one space-age detail: More than half of the students are robots. Ok, to be more precise, nine of the fourteen students in the course are joining the class remotely by using a robot stand-in. Every day before class, McCaw will wake up the robots, a device by. The “Hybrid Movement”.
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CoderZ Encouraging Title I Schools to Sign-up Students for the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge
eSchool News
JANUARY 28, 2021
The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge has passed the halfway mark, but it’s not too late for teachers and students to sign up. Since the fall, CoderZ and Amazon Future Engineer have been bringing real-world industry to Title I classrooms with this free, three-hour virtual learning experience.
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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
I also showed and discussed multiple, concrete, age-specific examples with each group to illustrate how we can redesign instruction for higher student engagement, even during blended or online learning. The integration of robots into day-to-day life. All of this work was virtual. Skills development and college/career readiness.
The 5 Bs of online feedback teachers need to master
Neo LMS
JULY 23, 2020
The online learning environment has become the new school for almost every student in most countries as a result of the current pandemic. Teachers have been trying to keep their students connected to the learning process, but it hasn’t been easy. Read more: How to give feedback to students in the online learning environment.
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10 edtech experts you should follow
Hapara
JANUARY 14, 2022
After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .
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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?
Edsurge
MARCH 31, 2021
Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company).
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Robots Won’t Replace Instructors, 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Instead, They’ll Help Them Be ‘More Human.’
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Jennifer Sparrow, the university’s senior director of teaching and learning with technology, thinks the fears that some faculty have about artificial intelligence taking their jobs echos the concern some had 20 years ago when higher education was first “branching out into online learning.”
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CoderZ Named 2020 Tech Edvocate Award Winner for Best Coding App or Tool
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
CoderZ , an online learning environment where students learn robotics and STEM by coding virtual robots, has been named a 2020 Tech Edvocate Award winner in the Best Coding App or Tool category. CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. About CoderZ.
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CES 2016: Lego’s New Classroom Robot Brings STEM Lessons to Life
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 5, 2016
Frank Smith Lego’s WeDo 2.0 has a knack for making students smile as they take their first steps into the world of programming.
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CoderZ & Amazon Cyber Robotics Back-to-School Challenge
eSchool News
OCTOBER 1, 2020
This fall, CoderZ and Amazon Future Engineer are bringing real-world industry to classrooms with the Amazon Cyber Robotics Back-to-School Challenge. In this free, three-hour virtual learning experience, students learn the basics of computer science while uncovering how Amazon uses computer science and robotics daily to deliver customer goods.
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CoderZ to Launch New CoderZ League Sprint Challenge Virtual Tournament in March
eSchool News
JANUARY 25, 2021
The cloud-based robotics tournament is designed to give participating students the chance to connect with peers, improve their STEM skills and have fun while learning. The challenge can accommodate whatever method a school is using to deliver instruction, whether it’s in person, online or a hybrid model. About CoderZ.
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AI Tools Like ChatGPT May Reshape Teaching Materials — And Possibly Substitute Teach
Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2023
It’s almost like the teacher is programming the robot to do their job for them.” He pointed to a buyer’s guide for generative tools , noting that “institutions will need to have their needs and priorities clear … before buying marking machines or teaching robots or any other such thing.” Chocolate-Covered Broccoli’?
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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious
Teacher Reboot Camp
MAY 19, 2020
Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )! The robot is mimicking how a computer takes directions from code.
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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions
Edsurge
APRIL 28, 2020
The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. Companies are looking at digital learning and saying.
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How Teachers Are Taking Lessons Learned From Virtual School Back to the Classroom
Edsurge
AUGUST 30, 2021
In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to meet the needs of all learners.
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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. Murder mysteries and online learning. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.
Team 4443 Sock Monkeys Once Again!
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 21, 2015
I am a part of Team 4443: Sock Monkeys and we are a robotics team through the FTC. Robotics teams start the competition season by learning what that year’s challenge is; they then immediately get to work on designing and building a robot that is best suited to that year’s challenge. What is the game this year?
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CoderZ Takes First Place as the Education Solution with Greatest Growth Potential
eSchool News
DECEMBER 9, 2020
CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. Developed for students in grades 2 and above, the gamified STEM solution allows students to work at their own pace, easily programming real and virtual robots from anywhere in the world. About CoderZ.
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Making Sense of the Metaverse in Education
EdTechTeacher
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
For example, AV1 is a distance-learning robot in the UK that allows children suffering from long-term illness to attend school. In China, 600 kindergarten classes have embraced Keeko , an autonomous robot that can tell stories and pose riddles. Learning will become more gamified.
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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?
Edsurge
APRIL 18, 2019
More colleges are using it for online learning, since it can make students and instructors more present to each other than most other media. For example, telepresence robots could give remote students more options for expression in class when they can’t be there in person. Video can interact with other technologies, too.
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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever
Edsurge
APRIL 25, 2018
In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.
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How educators are using AI in the classroom
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 8, 2023
Students don’t want a robot to teach them; they might use a robot to help them, but they don’t want AI to teach them.” Learning how to use this tool isn’t going to replace instructors. But students don’t want a robot to teach them; they might use a robot to help them, but they don’t want AI to teach them.”
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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2020
Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses.
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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching
Edsurge
MARCH 6, 2017
For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. It may sound obvious, but it addresses widespread concerns from many professors that online teaching will be impersonal and transactional. Are you saying online teaching wasn't humanized enough?
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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
In popular culture, artificial intelligence is used to describe anything from product recommendations to self-driving cars and futuristic robotic overlords. But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai
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Wizrobotics launches Wizprodigy, a new online competition experience for STEM students
eSchool News
JANUARY 28, 2021
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the learning environment of students, Wizprodigy is looking to bring together creative young minds by offering a unique way for students to learn about STEM and gain hands-on experience in robotics while providing them with an opportunity to compete for scholarship prizes. About Wiz Robotics.
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Trends and challenges impacting CTE in 2024–and beyond
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
It also helps them become more confident in their abilities, because every child learns in a different way. For example, think about learning about X, Y, and Z in math classes. If students have the opportunity to learn about robotics, they will be able to directly apply the math learning with a real-world robotic application.
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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools. In her current role, she works directly with the district’s online tutoring programs, including FEV Tutor , to accelerate learning for students. VEX Robotics demonstrated its VEX GO and VEX 123 solutions.
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CoderZ Announces CoderZ League World Champions
eSchool News
MARCH 2, 2021
CoderZ today announced the winners of the all-new CoderZ League: the Virtual Cyber Robotics Competition (formerly the Cyber Robotics Coding Competition or CRCC). Students in grades four through 12 throughout the United States and the world joined in the cloud-based robotics tournament. We are so immensely proud of them all.”.
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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?
Edsurge
APRIL 27, 2023
Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. To Derek Bruff, a visiting associate director at Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, the push to create an ideal personality for a digital tutor reminds him of a previous moment in online learning.
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CoderZ Contributes to the National Computer Science for All Movement
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In partnership with Amazon Future Engineer, we’ve committed to providing coding and robotics instruction to 150,000 students over the next 12 months,” said Ido Yerushalmi, CEO of CoderZ. CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. About CoderZ.
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Why Convenience Boosts Student Campus Life
Edsurge
MAY 6, 2020
Many colleges, aware of the changing needs of the student population today, are installing collaborative maker spaces, student-run print shops, convenience stores, and in a science-fiction departure at UC Berkeley, robot-run food delivery to busy students. A food delivering KiwiBot at UC Berkeley. Photo Credit: Sydney Johnson).colleges
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ISTELive sessions you don’t want to miss
Hapara
JUNE 7, 2023
View Session Details >> Hands-on learning Creating high-level robotics projects with LEGO and micro:bit Presenters : Lisa Schwartz and Joshua Zimmerman When : Wednesday, June 28, 12:30 p.m. – View Sessions Details >> Lights, sensors, action!
Why we should leave behind the cookie-cutter education
Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
… And go towards personalized learning. Let’s stop treating kids like robots. But students have to be in the classroom for most of their day, participate to all classes and learning activities without having much choice, and prepare for standardized tests. It’s high time we should leave behind this cookie-cutter education.
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Will AI really transform education?
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
It enables children to use artificial intelligence to train and build robots. Druga talked about how kids first assumed the robots were super brainy. But once students learned how to train a robot, she said, “their perception goes from, it’s smarter than me to, it’s not smart, significantly.
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The future includes good (human) teachers
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
– 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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Slooh Launches Its Next-Gen Platform to Engage Students in Space Exploration
eSchool News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Washington Depot, Connecticut – Slooh, the pioneer in offering live online telescope feeds of the universe and an NGSS-aligned curriculum for school communities worldwide, recently launched the next generation of its online learning platform to make space exploration even easier and more engaging for students and educators alike.
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