A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. From a growth perspective, the Personal Learning Network ( PLN ) concept has dramatically impacted countless educators across the globe. The need for digital leadership now is more urgent than a few years ago. Have you heard of it?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

With the right tools and training, adopting edtech in the classroom can have far-reaching benefits. Train the teachers. When software or hardware is installed, take the time to train your staff on it. Train them further. 5 Tips for schools to harness the power of edtech in the classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve learning.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

This week’s podcast sponsor is PowerSchool, now with Schoology, a unified platform that brings SIS, LMS and assessment together for blended, distance and personalized learning. Learn more. There are giant monoliths, trained chickens and robotic talking trash cans.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

In a colorful space adjacent to where teachers receive regular professional development training, Rowan-Salisbury Schools has created an Educators’ Playground of edtech where teachers can tinker and test new products. Learn more: ISTE Feature. Teaching and learning are student-centered and student-driven.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” The instructor’s strategy for training Maria Bot’s AI system mimics the three wise monkeys from the Japanese proverb: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. I am told I am a robot for good every day. Maria was evil.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

In 2018, ISTE and General Motors launched a professional development course to train educators on how to use AI for teaching and learning. They just need context and training. 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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

And 84 percent consider it important or very important to offer teachers extra training on how to incorporate AI into the classroom. Tapping into AI’s potential in education : A significant majority of parents (69 percent) are optimistic that AI has the potential to significantly advance education and learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And a small cluster of boys needed extra space in their day to work on robotics and coding projects, on top of their computer science and physics work. According to our mission , Honolulu’s Assets High School “serves gifted and capable students specializing in those with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences.

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Adjusting Course

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

I woke up this weekend and started thinking about personalized learning. Technically speaking, I didn’t actually wake up with the words “personalized learning” on my mind. Instead, my thoughts were filled with some of the most student-centered learning experiences I’ve observed over the past week, and in recent years.

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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. English AI looks like all the other talking heads sitting at a news desk, but the English-speaking anchor isn’t a person.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AMERICORPS VOLUNTEERS IMPROVE READING OUTCOMES IN DES MOINES (IA) PUBLIC SCHOOLS To support the district’s mission to improve student literacy proficiency, the district trained AmeriCorps members to deliver the offline instruction provided by Lexia Reading Core5. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ?

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer, machine, robot, or tech system to demonstrate characteristics of human intelligence. AI is commonly associated with platforms or systems that present human intellectual capabilities, such as the ability to reason, solve problems, use language, or learn from past experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class. Tobie Baker Wright, a former senior program manager with JFF.

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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Robots aren't coming for your jobs, but management may well be. Why do you? " A word, please.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In her current role, she works directly with the district’s online tutoring programs, including FEV Tutor , to accelerate learning for students. FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Through our direct interactions with educators and school leaders around the country working to implement effective personalized learning models in their schools and districts, we find that technology’s role in this arena is yet to be clearly defined on a broad scale. So, what role(s) should technology play in education?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

From self-driving cars and grocery shopping without cash registers ( Amazon Go ), to algorithms that detect diseases and speech recognition that allows us to have conversations with robots (Apple’s Siri, for example) artificial intelligence is everywhere. Delivering adaptive learning. And the near future will have more and more of it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

As early as Monday morning, students posted photos of word problems asking how many oranges Mickey Mouse has left after Donald Duck absconded with some, and how quickly Spider-Man would meet Homer Simpson if Spidey started swinging from Manhattan at noon and Homer’s Springfield train left the same time going 70 miles per hour. Neither do we!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

We believe in the idea of trying on different identities: ‘I’m going to be a photographer, robotics engineer, or actor in a Shakespeare play.’ ”. The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Finally, she made it to the charging station and her shift at the learning resource center (LRC) officially started. Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

They’re pulling back as many PhDs as they can that we’ve trained in our universities. We don’t need to be worried about this superintelligence that’s going to take over and we won’t need to defend against the machines and the robots. And unfortunately, China is doing a much better job than we are.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In fact, because of the rigor and flexible scheduling, Futures draws a lot of high achievers with hobbies and careers who need time to travel and train—including an accomplished race car driver, an equestrian, a pilot and a film actress.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This idea that “the child will be the customer” is, of course, also a nod to “personalized learning” as well, as is the invocation of a “Montessori-inspired” model. But the demand, in turn, for more training and certification hasn’t brought with it better pay or benefits.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Given the enormous potential of edtech to assist teachers in highly diverse classrooms to truly personalize learning and obtain significant student academic growth, why are we seeing such consistent and large-scale edtech failure when it comes to gains in student academic achievement? blended learning).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Sean Talamas, VP of Research at The Character Lab , which was founded by Angela Duckworth, talked about ways in which researchers and practitioners can more effectively collaborate to evaluate learning and practice. LEAP Innovations shared their newly developed framework for personalized learning practice. EDTECH EFFICACY.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2017

Schools said they expect to see an increased use of digital platforms for teaching, learning and assessment, along with more personalized learning, in the coming school year. About 30 percent of surveyed educators said they also expect to see an increase in an emphasis on computational thinking, coding and robotics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

The following year, LAB prioritized strengthening their programming for less traditional activities such as robotics, student council and video game design, with an emphasis on explicitly connecting these experiences to specific competencies in the framework. It has inspired LAB’s leaders to add new components to the curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We We learned in 2020 that the “new normal” for educational facilities will need to look a lot different than the normal we’re used to. Scott Kinney, CEO, Discovery Education. temperature, lighting). Justin Reilly, CEO, Impero Software.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Vrain is also the only district Learning Counsel has found that is deeply involved in workflow aimed at personalized learning, with 100% digital coverage for core curriculum, 90% for electives, 80% for special needs and 100% for professional development. Most recently they unveiled a new mobile Innovation Lab.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

For us, it’s really about enabling learning.” Microsoft's Barbara Holzapfel described what she sees as an opportunity to personalize learning through translation applications the company is developing, making real-time translations into a variety of languages. I disagree with all of them.”

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

To achieve this, though, we’ll need to educate people very differently ( Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace ). We will use technology to get the assistance and feedback from folks around the globe for own personalized learning.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Program a Robot. So not only is AI becoming mainstream, but we have some pretty cool robots available for our classrooms. Robotics offer a lot of learning opportunities for students at every level, and it will help them understand the basics of coding all the way to advanced programming and robotics. Join me!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As technology continues to evolve, it presents exciting opportunities to enhance engagement, personalize learning, and equip students with the skills needed for a rapidly advancing future. Educational apps, virtual simulations, and online collaboration tools provide diverse and engaging learning experiences.

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