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AI, automation & 21st century skills needs: what do they mean for education?

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The profound changes ahead demand an education approach that will provide young people with enduring capabilities and skills to harness the opportunities of technological change.

The passport that today’s kindergarten students will need for life and work in 2040 includes the strong foundations provided by a great school education. This starts with literacy and numeracy but goes well beyond that to the higher order skills provided by quality post-school education and training.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Education

Building a better ‘bot’: Artificial intelligence helps human groups

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be super-sophisticated to make a difference in people’s lives, according to a new study. Even ‘dumb AI’ can help human groups.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Education

Students as teachers effective in STEM subjects

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In the traditional college learning structure, students enter the classroom and place their focus on the classroom instructor. But researchers are finding that higher levels of academic success may be achieved by adopting an alternative pedagogical model, one which has a recent student teaching fellow students.

Tags: Education, Stem

Digital textbook analytics can predict student outcomes, study finds

Education

College professors and instructors can learn a lot from the chapters of a digital textbook that they assign students to read. According to a study, digital books provide real-time analytics to help faculty assess how students are doing in the class.

Tags: Education

New Ways of Teaching Lead To First Year Students Scientific Breakthrough

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Our July article The Anti-Lecture Debate was triggered by the University of Adelaide’s ban on lectures and gave links to  various viewpoints from academia on the value of lectures, including the comment “some have even claimed lectures are as bad for learning as smoking is for health.” Since then, an interesting result has been reported […]

Tags: Education

Mobile Technology in the Classroom Debate: New Findings

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Our April article on The Mobile Technology in the Classroom Debate looked at the questions: “Is mobile technology in the classroom bad for students’ social, emotional and personal development? Is there an “App Gap” holding low-income children back? Is digital inequality a serious social disadvantage?” So what’s new? The latest research findings from different sources […]

Tags: Education

The Mobile Technology in the Classroom Debate

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Is mobile technology in the classroom bad for students’ social, emotional and personal development? Is there an “App Gap” holding low-income children back? Is digital inequality a serious social disadvantage? In April 2015, separate research studies gave some answers to those questions. “ Teacher attitudes are crucial to the success of high-tech initiatives. Teachers are […]

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