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Rebooted: An Uncommon Guide to Radical Success and Fairness in the New World of Life, Death, and Tech, by Arnobio Morelix, examines the opportunities and challenges that are on the horizon for businesses in the post-pandemic economy.

Morelix posits that the changes brought about by the pandemic accelerated change that was already happening incrementally: instead of taking ten years for innovations to take hold, the pandemic caused things to be set in motion at warp speed. 

The moment is an important inflection point for technologists — I Schoolers in particular — to strategically assess the impact and consequences of technologies birthed from this moment in time. 

What if classroom teachers had access to an inexpensive, simple to use tool that provided them with actionable, real-time feedback on their lesson delivery? TeacherPrints, a project developed in the Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) Capstone class, does just that, and recently won a $25,000 grant as a Catalyst Prize winner by the Futures Forum on Learning. 

“If machine learning and NLP can be harnessed to provide meaningful feedback to teachers who otherwise might not get any feedback at all,” Anna Jacobson said, “that’s a win for everyone.”