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APRIL 23, 2024

Collaborative Learning Opportunities : Digital tools facilitate collaboration and communication among students, enabling them to work together on projects, share ideas, and engage in meaningful discussions. Educators must ensure that students understand how AI technologies work, including their limitations and potential biases.

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MAY 5, 2025

Just as we teach the alphabet, structure, vocabulary and syntax, we must teach the language of computers. Instead, an early elementary lesson might involve discussing what computers are, how they help people and their role in students daily lives. Computer science is essential, not optional. Computer science is essential, not optional.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The course offers a broad view of computer science education through a variety of lenses: engineering design, algorithms and coding, ethics and the social impact of technology, and more. Additionally, students also hone skills such as creativity, collaboration, and communication by participating in guided classroom activities and discussions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

That disparity highlights a pressing need to raise awareness of and increase parental involvement in AI discussions, and advance the implementation of AI in American primary and secondary education. Additionally, 84 percent of parents believe it is important to prioritize teaching AI ethics and responsible use alongside technical skills.

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JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. But there may be a solution on the horizon, one that will help ensure students have to put more effort into their schoolwork than entering a prompt into a large language model. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Keeshin’s company is perhaps best known for a series of introductory coding courses it offers on programming languages such as Javascript and Python. All students will get a grounding in what the company calls “cyber hygiene,” or staying safe online, and in the ethical implications of hacking.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For English Language Learners (ELLs), this scenario is even more daunting due to limited vocabulary or fear of making mistakes. By integrating AI into storytelling, we can empower students to generate ideas, build confidence, and create compelling narratives, all while developing their language skills. Is it accurate?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, as the educational community navigates these innovations, it becomes essential to address ethical considerations to ensure the responsible and effective integration of AI. Parhizkar, a science and technology specialist at Alief Independent School District, discusses how AI can be used to personalize learning for students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

While many of the current discussions about AI in education tend to focus on macro-level logistical concerns like plagiarism, its potential impact on equity and inclusion demands equal attention. These sessions emphasize human-centered teaching and provide practical guidance on using AI creatively and ethically in the classroom.

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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. Learning analytics proponents are also using new AI tools to help analyze online discussion boards from courses.

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JUNE 18, 2021

The course on Ethics, Public Policy and Technological Change, which has been running for a couple of years in-person, is intended to get students thinking about tough issues in the ethics of technology. At best, he says, “you get some sense of whether it’s going well or poorly.”

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APRIL 30, 2024

AI algorithms use massive datasets and natural language processing to produce content that replicates student writing styles as teaching tools. Improved Writing Quality For many students, especially those learning English as a second language, AI technologies are essential for language and writing improvement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Translating phrases into Spanish helped him connect new terms to his native language.

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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. These definitions, while seemingly similar, often lack clarity and consistency in literature and research.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. These are areas where AI excels, which could allow humans to focus more energy on becoming better at our skills, like being ethical decision-makers. But with technology advancing so quickly, how can we help young people make healthy choices?

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MARCH 18, 2024

A summary of the discussion follows. At a time when early childhood educators are experiencing a host of challenges — from burnout , to low pay , to understaffed programs — the panelists discussed ways that AI can safely and effectively free up educators’ time and lend them more support. For the full conversation, listen here.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Student projects helped to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities by developing an AI-powered system that helps to translate spoken language into sign language for the deaf and hard of hearing. This ensures that AI tools are not only effective but also responsible and ethical.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The discussion about the importance of class size has been ongoing for decades. Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

These innovative educators discussed how AI education makes students and themselves more human by sharing their experiences in planning and implementing AI activities in their classes. Then, students learned to code with graphical programming language. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

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JULY 2, 2024

Earlier this year, for example, a dean at Boston University sparked concern among graduate workers who were on strike seeking higher wages when he listed AI as one possible strategy for handling course discussions and other classroom activities that were impacted by the strike.

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JULY 16, 2019

This ethical question formed the center of a thoughtful, deep discussion about an email from the school administration asking teachers to tell students not to “like” a YouTube video posted by a comedian who had been accused of making anti-Semitic statements. Nor had they carved out time for her to do so.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

But Winnick, who wrote a book on AI in education called “ The Generative Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education ” and hosts a podcast by the same name, thinks putting in that disclosure note is temporary, not some fundamental ethical requirement, since she thinks this kind of AI use will become routine. “I

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Schools are thus faced with ensuring students are adept at engaging with digital tools in a manner that is both ethical and informed, regardless of their starting level of digital literacy or the extent of their technology access outside the classroom. “As Richard Culatta discusses what it means to be an effective digital citizen.

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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Student-led discussions: Rotate leadership roles for class discussions, allowing students to take ownership of their learning with their peers.

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JUNE 9, 2022

citizenship/ethics/etiquette. language usage. Once resources have been collected, present to the group for discussion. Start with a discussion on 1) the difference between an amateur and professional writer, 2) what it means to be ‘published’, and 3) publication options. analytical thinking. critical thinking. persuasion.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tie-ins: Use this not only for holidays but any academic class by creating an artistic image of the topic being discussed. It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Save, print, share, publish as is customary in your classes.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tie-ins: Use this not only for holidays but any academic class by creating an artistic image of the topic being discussed. It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 I also discuss how to instruct students to include ChatGPT in their research methodology when using the tool to refine research questions. as a tool in research project supervision.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

So they want their courses to help prepare them for this new world and to be part of developing ethical rules on how best to use AI. The biggest concern discussed at the event was making sure students around the world have equal access to new AI tools — and that educators have access to training to use them effectively and ethically.

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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. In the absence of ethics and values to drive the deployment of AI , its arrival in schools is a risk.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences. However, the emphasis on human teachers could limit the exploration of AI tools that might support ethical education practices.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

This aligns with the broader movement to ensure ethical development and use of AI while promoting human-centered learning experiences. However, the emphasis on human teachers could limit the exploration of AI tools that might support ethical education practices.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

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.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

What students and alumni were asking us was, ‘Is there a way for them to gain the technical vertical skills and the language and the networks—all the sort of fluency of being in tech?’” There was less of a penalty for being wrong” during class discussions. says Eshleman. It was the stark opposite of the Davidson experience,” he says.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Language is an important vehicle to help children understand and learn. Not only did children learn a lot better with conversational agents, but the biggest gains were to English language learners,” Warschauer says. “We It puts a huge amount of ethical questions into who can decide what that agent can do.”

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