Running the Room
Tom Bennett's thoughts on education, classrooms and teaching.
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Do teachers dream of electric students? (opens the original)
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I was asked this week to write a short piece for the Telegraph about the use of in-class robots to take the place of children who cannot attend school for a variety of reasons. No, I hadn't heard about this until quite recently either. You can find the article here. Obviously the way these things work, they strap a boisterous headline onto it designed to attract attention, and that’s just the way of it. I wanted to go with Avatar- the last attender, or A.I.: Artificial Inclusion</
Stand fast! (opens the original)
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War is over if you want it (opens the original)
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