Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In January, Colby College announced the formation of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence , calling it the “first cross-disciplinary institute for artificial intelligence at a liberal arts college.” There is a reason no other liberal arts college has engaged in an undertaking of this nature.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

We are a diverse urban learning community, where our families speak 23 different languages. A pilot project for our Next Generation Curriculum was a student who researched feminist critique, medical ethics, and border wars. She ended up doing an art installation and website on the theme “Rightfully Ours.”

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

We are focusing on the efficiencies AI can create, how AI can be used to increase student learning, and the ethics of using this new technology. GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 266

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Research has found multiple benefits of integrating science and math instruction , as well as science and English language arts instruction , such as increasing student understanding, strengthening critical-thinking skills, and helping students acquire STEM skills they need for postsecondary success.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, AI-powered writing tools help to provide immediate feedback, guiding students through the writing process and fostering a more personalized approach to learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Having begun my journey as an Institutional Review Board (IRB) committee member during my graduate school years, I've been committed to upholding ethical principles in data usage, such as those outlined in The Belmont Report. Allow Parents to Consent.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). AI Literacy applies 21st-century skills , including communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

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Intelligence Education Learning Ethics 209

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

From cloning to social media, it is more essential to understand the ethical implications of an idea and how it will impact people than it is to build well-designed code. Virtue is conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles. Today, classical education can provide a roadmap for students to learn and grow.

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Ethics History Education Culture 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art Comics Holiday Widget Team Challenge Thanksgiving Poll Thinking Games Themed ASCII Art Time required: Less than one class ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Then, students learned to code with graphical programming language. They articulated how they would and would not use [AI-assisted text generators] at school and built the ethics with their understanding and discussion. I shared the resources with my students, including the rock, paper, scissors video, and they trained the machine.

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Education Learning Intelligence Coaching 197

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This vision of Holocaust education as an ethical awakening and an inoculation against hate is powerful, but top-down mandates also introduce significant challenges for educators. Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Knowledge in the absence of understanding the larger meaning is of limited value.

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Teaching Ethics History Textbooks 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Art Graesser: A lot of the learning that goes on is shallow learning: memorizing things and being exposed to ideas, for example. With advances in educational data mining, we can infer learners’ emotions from their natural language interaction with systems, their facial expressions, even their body posture.

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Intelligence Lecturing Multiple Choice Questions Learning 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Time required: Less than one class. or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. I wouldn’t rely on AI to unearth new understandings and find hidden stories.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

I think that this is about the art and science of taking care of kids, and that all of us who are in any position raising or working with kids need to come together and figure out: How do we collectively share information and share the responsibility of the kids who are in our care? Absolutely, if done alone. I worry about it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The business community knows what they want in their employees: work ethic, the ability to communicate and function as a team, flexible thinking, etc. For a long time, “work ethic” and “agency” were simply other terms for “turned in on time.” Perhaps I sensed a tremor from the other side of the educational spectrum—the workforce.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

The thing that some educators can’t wrap their heads around, still, is that they’re working with a large language model. Stamford has introduced a number of free, easy-to-use text editors, or generative AI art tools, in these workshops. This gives educators an option to discuss which AI tools might be useful to teach certain topics.

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Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

The result is LearnZillion , serving up teacher-developed math and English Language Arts curriculum through an innovative curriculum-as-a-service model. An Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger. Westendorf melded the lessons he learned in Japan with his Stanford MBA and years of experience teaching and leading schools.

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Curriculum Math English Ethics 144

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

We are focusing on the efficiencies AI can create, how AI can be used to increase student learning, and the ethics of using this new technology. GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

Back in 1988, the College Board offered high schools two options for AP computer science courses: AP Computer Science A, which covered one college semester’s worth of learning a programming language (first Pascal, then C++ and now Java), and AP Computer Science AB, which covered two semesters.

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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 113

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Time required: Less than one class. or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 122

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

It is a part of the Lumen Christi Academies , a group of Catholic schools in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to “nurture ethical scholars who will change the world” through active, personalized and student-led learning. Some teachers may want equal amounts of time for covering each area, and have the same stations each day.

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Metacognitive Skills Learning Assignments Group work 166

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

It’s important information and it’s part of the collaborative ethic. And that’s where the problems start to kick in, because hitherto the main focus of these tests has been on language, mathematics and some aspects of science. He decided to get rid of all the security and put the money he saved into arts programs.

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Education Testing Culture Math 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Image Credit: Farhat Ahmad Curriculum Overhaul In 2015, I was hired as a Fulton County School District Learning Architect, which meant I was part of a team tasked with identifying power standards for English Language Arts. My work on this team prompted me to reevaluate my approach to curriculum and assessment.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 134

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

For instance, in a language learning course, students can engage in vocabulary-building games that involve matching words to their corresponding meanings or completing sentence exercises. Platforms like Quizlet , Classcraft , or Breakout EDU offer a range of educational games across various subjects.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

For instance, in a language learning course, students can engage in vocabulary-building games that involve matching words to their corresponding meanings or completing sentence exercises. Platforms like Quizlet , Classcraft , or Breakout EDU offer a range of educational games across various subjects.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

link] Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom provide educators with a variety of activities to teach students about AI as well as an AI Ethics Guide – for free! Resources to learn more about AI in the classroom: AI4K12.org: link] Melissa Parks, PhD, is an associate professor of elementary education at Stetson University in Deland, Florida.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 128

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

link] Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom provide educators with a variety of activities to teach students about AI as well as an AI Ethics Guide – for free! Resources to learn more about AI in the classroom: AI4K12.org: link] Melissa Parks, PhD, is an associate professor of elementary education at Stetson University in Deland, Florida.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 110

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Talk to your students about the ethics of plagiarism, making it clear why it’s wrong and how it hurts them. If you assign a paper on the features of a novel as a genre, for example, name a specific novel you’d like them to analyze for those features.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 124

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Move 2: Strive for precise language. The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Striving for precise language moves us from generalities to specifics, from abstract to concrete.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 106

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Time required: Less than one class. Thinking Games.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Time required: Less than one class. Thinking Games.

Activities 76

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

In online schools, students can: Post videos explaining historical events in their own words Create digital art reflecting literature themes Record musical or theatrical performances and share them with peers Unlike traditional homework, which is seen only by the teacher, social media-based projects give students a real audience.

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Online Learning Ethics Education Learning 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

Perfect for a social studies class, language arts, or a dedicated sociology course, these sociology questions for 8th grade will intrigue even your most reluctant writers. What should society value more: art or science? What is the role of music and performing arts in society? If so, are there any exceptions?

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Questions Grades Social Studies Middle School 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130