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Students using AI: It’s not that scary and shouldn’t be banned

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Educators can guide students to interrogate the reliability of AI outputs and discuss the ethical implications of biased algorithms. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

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Let’s Teach Computer Science Majors to Be Good Citizens. The Whole World Depends on It.

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Yet, many social, political and ethical concerns have emerged as the application of technology has grown in daily life. Undergraduate education offers a key opportunity for recruiting students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic, gender, and disability groups into computing.

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How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community

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This project was guided by Anni Kumar, a seasoned educator and head of the computer science department at Vikas Bharati Public School. This ensures that AI tools are not only effective but also responsible and ethical. Lastly, AI tools can have significant ethical implications.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition. Over multiple semesters, more than 2,000 students voluntarily participated in IRB-approved surveys and follow-up interviews.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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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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Promoting AI-Enhanced Performance in the Online Classroom

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With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. SAGE Open 14 (3).

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How AI Will Change Personalized Learning

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For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. We might have an over identification of students with disabilities that are in a particular demographic, so there is inherent bias in anything that is AI generated simply because of the algorithm and the way that it is developed.

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