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Education is one of the domains where artificial intelligence is showing great promise. But while most efforts have focused on augmenting and enhancing the learning experience, challenges remain in the registration and enrollment domains. Students and learners often struggle to find their way to the right courses and classes, whether because of the confusing variety of courses available on online platforms or the complicated proces…
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Misconceptions swirl about what AI is, what machine learning does, its capabilities and its purpose in our society. However, our world is benefiting from the technology’s implementation, and it’s driving positive cultural and societal change, such as helping doctors predict the next global health outbreak or enhancing diagnosis and treatment capabilities. Yet despite these advancements, many are still concerned about AI’s capabilities and how the tech will affect the future of work. Job automation, for example, has been covered tirelessly by the press, and headlines take both sides of the ever-swaying media spectrum – “AI is taking our jobs,” “aut…
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The new, updated Pi-top is hoping to inspire students to get into computing by taking a ‘learning by doing’ approach.
There’s little doubt that we’re heading towards a fourth industrial revolution with the spread of artificial intelligence into more and more of our products, from smart speakers in our living rooms to self-driving cars on our roads, and even in our workplaces.
There is an obvious fear that when machines can do our jobs better than us that we’ll be replaced. The only hope for us to retain our jobs (or at least continue to be in employment) is to gain skills that make us useful once our current jobs get taken over.
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Scottish based Open Planet Software today introduces Smoovie for iPad v2.0, their popular stop motion animation app with a crisp new design and exciting additions to the UI. Now Green Screen lets you set your movie against a background of your choice; the possibilities are endless! Plus, all the great features that make Smoovie perfect for stop motion animation in the classroom: instant playback, record your own audio, scenes and frames, onion skinning, teacher resources, HD export and more….
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Dell Chromebook 3189 Education 2-in-1
As its name implies, the Dell Chromebook 3189 Education 2-in-1 (starts at $ 349; $ 389 as tested) is a convertible laptop made with students in mind. It delivers all-day battery life, and is built tough enough to handle all the abuse that school-age children …
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SALT LAKE CITY, May 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The 2017 ASU + GSV Summit was held from May 8-10, in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a world leading “AI + Education” company, Liulishuo was invited to the summit for a second consecutive year. Yi Wang, the founder & CEO of Liulishuo, was invited…
A tool for learning coding has been added to Minecraft: Education Edition. The feature, known as Code Builder, has launched today in beta. It'll typically appear inside the game as a robot and users can interact with it to learn simple coding skills.