{"id":60693,"date":"2017-09-14T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60693"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:37:24","slug":"teachers-can-now-use-ibms-watson-to-search-for-free-lesson-plans-noonoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/09\/14\/teachers-can-now-use-ibms-watson-to-search-for-free-lesson-plans-noonoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers can now use IBM\u2019s Watson to search for free lesson plans [Noonoo]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers can now use IBM\u2019s Watson to search for free lesson plans<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Stephen Noonoo<\/p>\n

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IBM\u2019s famous Watson computing system\u2014which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011\u2014is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. As part of a new IBM philanthropic\u00a0initiative, the supercomputer is helping to power a searchable database of open educational math resources designed for teachers in grades K-5.<\/p>\n

Today marks the first time the new tool, called Teacher Advisor With Watson 1.0<\/a>, is open to the public after a lengthy beta testing period that sought input from state education commissioners, teachers unions, school board associations and more than 1,000 teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to build and design something for teachers by teachers, with the best information and the best technology available,\u201d says Stan Litow, the\u00a0President Emeritus of the IBM Foundation\u00a0and a former deputy chancellor for New York City Department of Education.<\/p>\n

The IBM Foundation has been flirting with ideas to apply Watson technology in education for a while, without knowing exactly what it wanted to do with it. The tech giant began last year by pulling in more than 100 top-level education leaders for a daylong event demoing the tech. From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math.<\/p>\n

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Populating the search engine is a collection of more than 1,000 OERs\u2014from sources such as Achieve, UnboundED and statewide orgs like EngageNY\u2014hand-selected by math experts assisting the program.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Teachers can now use IBM\u2019s Watson to search for free lesson plans — from edsurge.com by Stephen Noonoo Excerpt: IBM\u2019s famous Watson computing system\u2014which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011\u2014is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. As part of a new IBM philanthropic\u00a0initiative, the supercomputer is helping to power a searchable database […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,547,180,482,46,163,76,66,89,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-ibm","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-k-12-related","category-mathematics","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60696,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60693\/revisions\/60696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}