eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Educators can guide students to interrogate the reliability of AI outputs and discuss the ethical implications of biased algorithms. Students might use AI to generate story starters, design prototypes for projects, or analyze data for science experiments. Define when and how it’s appropriate, fostering a culture of integrity.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 333

eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2025

This evolution has revised, if not totally disrupted, the playing field, positioning all of us as digital immigrants navigating to a new rapidly changing landscape of capabilities and ethical complexities. Educators need to cultivate a culture of curiosity and responsibility among our students.

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Ethics Assignments Culture Critical Thinking 311

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Science Experiments: Students make a claim about the outcome of a science experiment, present data as evidence, and ask questions about variables that might have affected the results.

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Questions Metacognitive Skills Ethics Math 415

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Who gets to learn about computer science in school? While a growing number of schools offer some form of computer-science class or after-school program, such offerings are still far more common in well-resourced districts than those that primarily serve underprivileged students, and more boys take them than girls. A culture shift?

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Science Discussions Culture Ethics 186

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Key points: Inspiring young women in STEM programs requires cultivating a culture of community Black students need more STEM career exposure Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades For more news on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes.

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STEM Education Ethics Math 348

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

This is a significant gap in AIs ability to support language learners and culturally diverse classrooms. Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history.

Intelligence 286

Intelligence Education Language Languages 286

Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

Furthermore, a toxic workplace culture may discourage younger nurse educators from entering academia, perpetuating the shortage and reducing the professions ability to educate future nurses. Fostering a Culture of Civility Clark et al. 2011) emphasize the importance of fostering a culture of civility within nursing education.

Education 98

Education Culture Counselling Ethics 98

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied. Extend: Encourage discussion on how this theme might be relevant in different cultural or historical contexts.

Metacognitive Skills 334

Metacognitive Skills Discussions Art Math 334

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” The New School, in New York City, is taking a different approach.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Skeptics argue that VR experiences can’t create genuine empathy , that VR simulations make females sick at higher rates than males , and that ethical considerations –from psychological implications to privacy concerns — are urgent issues. Keep in mind there are ongoing debates around using virtual reality with kids.

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STEM Ethics Social Studies Study 238

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2025

Zarek Drozda, director of the nonprofit Data Science for Everyone, says his organization has seen interest in offering AI and data science coursework increase among school districts, with the number of states launching data initiatives increasing from one to 29 over the past four years.

Intelligence 210

Intelligence Teachers Science Plagiarism 210

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This approach goes beyond simply teaching students how to use AI tools; it aims to develop a comprehensive set of skills that will enable students to understand, critically evaluate and ethically engage with AI technologies. What are the ethical implications? EdSurge: What does it mean for a student to be AI ready?

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Science 155

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

AP Computer Science is getting a facelift—or rather, an entirely new face. The College Board has announced that this fall it will launch a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles , a program that the organization hopes will engage more females and students of color in computer science.

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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 113

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. Its an approach known as learning analytics.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 202

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

One reason boils down to a technicality: such research usually requires the approval of a college’s Institutional Review Board, or IRB, the office that makes sure any research involving human subjects follows legal and ethical guidelines. Trying to change the culture of teaching at colleges is a tall order.

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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Ethics 167

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. It begins as an exploration and celebration of the human condition, sharing the history of people and culture.

Ethics 154

Ethics History Education Culture 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s not science fiction anymore; right now, in every single field of study, AI is being used. As we think about college, careers, whatever pathways students choose, what we’ve seen in the past in computer sciences is a significant underrepresentation of women and of students from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Curriculum Intelligence Language Languages 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. With increased funding challenges and various political pressures surrounding wellness programs, science will drive decision-making. Using a science of literacy-based instructional approach doesn’t always look identical.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

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. Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science.

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Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

A frustrating combination of factors is keeping Latino students underrepresented in science, technology and math classes. Latinos who work in education are ready for change , and they say their culture already holds dear values like community-building and generosity that are needed to improve education for their students.

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Teachers Education Culture Ethics 148

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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Teachers Ethics Science Coaching 196

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. In the absence of ethics and values to drive the deployment of AI , its arrival in schools is a risk.

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Teaching Beliefs Education Culture 217

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards. Hammond, Z.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

According to the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, a college education provides graduates, especially those from elite universities, with not just a college degree, but with distinctive cultural qualities—the way graduates carry themselves, tastes they acquire and the economic class of their peers. trillion nationally.

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Study Ethics Beliefs Lecturing 214

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blockchain credentials are currently “a solution in search of a problem,” says Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “If Not everyone is sold on this vision, though. Well, mostly about cryptocurrency.

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Education Ethics Internet Exams 196

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Teams score one point per correct answer.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

Furthermore, a toxic workplace culture may discourage younger nurse educators from entering academia, perpetuating the shortage and reducing the professions ability to educate future nurses. Fostering a Culture of Civility Clark et al. 2011) emphasize the importance of fostering a culture of civility within nursing education.

Education 124

Education Culture Counselling Ethics 124

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching.

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 196

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Data science applied in public education just moves the points of interpretation and subjectivity. The New Orleans-based charter network identifies low-performing public schools and assuming control of the institutions—makes staffing, culture, operational and academic changes with hopes to improve student performance.

Ethics 115

Ethics Beliefs Exams Culture 115

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards. Hammond, Z.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. But these anxieties emerge from an individualistic view of learning.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. For the most part, these concerns are rooted in a cultural orientation that frames knowledge as property. But these anxieties emerge from an individualistic view of learning.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

teach computer science, most of them don't even teach AI, so there's really a lack of access among most young people. There's also a lot of work being done to create industry standards around responsible and ethical use of AI. I think the problem is multifaceted, which is why it's not an easy one to solve.

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Ethics Culture Accessibility 167

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Harvey Mudd College is known as a powerhouse in engineering and computer science—but like those fields, it has struggled historically with recruiting diverse staff and students. That has meant working to do things like make introductory computer-science classes more welcoming to all. Today about 45 percent of them are.

Math 138

Math Instructors Science Ethics 138

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

There are big cultural differences. And it is true that in some Asian cultures there is a much greater level of deference to teachers and their professional competence. And it is true that in some Asian cultures there is a much greater level of deference to teachers and their professional competence.

Education 167

Education Testing Culture Math 167